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Carnegie study highlights India’s strategic hedging
Carnegie report examines India’s strategic balancing amid global fragmentation, economic coercion, and shifting power dynamics in a rapidly evolving world order
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Staff Reporter - Sun, 29, Mar 2026
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Representative image / Carnegie Endowment for International Peace report
India is navigating a more fragmented and uncertain global order, shaped by shifting power balances, economic pressure, and weakening institutions, with the return of Donald Trump accelerating—but not defining—these trends, according to a Carnegie Endowment for International Peace report. The report states, “Trump 2.0 has unsettled India’s external environment, but it has not overturned its foreign policy strategy,” and adds that recent developments “have served to clarify and accelerate the global trends that India must confront.”
At the center of the report is India’s continued reliance on a strategy of maintaining multiple partnerships at once, rather than aligning closely with any single power. It states, “India continues to pursue a strategy of diversification and multi-alignment, seeking to engage major powers simultaneously while avoiding excessive dependence on any one partner.” The report presents this not as a new adjustment but as a continuation of an established approach, noting that India is “making tactical adjustments while maintaining its broader strategic framework.”
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