{"id":3042,"date":"2017-01-05T12:00:30","date_gmt":"2017-01-05T02:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/asiainsights\/?p=3042"},"modified":"2023-08-06T20:39:14","modified_gmt":"2023-08-06T10:39:14","slug":"narendra-modi-and-indias-normative-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/asiainsights\/narendra-modi-and-indias-normative-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Narendra Modi and India&#8217;s normative power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/asiainsights\/tag\/ian-hall\/\">IAN HALL<\/a> |<\/p>\n<p>Periodically, India has sought to act as a \u2018normative power\u2019 in international affairs, advancing a normative agenda about how states and other actors ought to behave, what norms and rules should regulate their interactions, and what institutions should exist to make and enforce them. The rise to power of Narendra Modi, who became India\u2019s prime minister in May 2014, with a declared aspiration to once more make India a vishwaguru (\u2018world guru\u2019) and a \u2018leading power\u2019, has generated debate about whether India will again become a normative power. This article analyses the intellectual resources with which Modi might construct that new normative agenda. These resources include the work of a number of key Hindu nationalist thinkers with whom Modi is well acquainted, but also the thought of Swami Vivekananda, for whom Modi claims a special devotion. The article concludes that constructing a new normative agenda for a revived \u2018normative power India\u2019 out of these resources will be difficult, given the limited usefulness of these intellectual resources, and that Modi\u2019s government will likely continue to pursue an essentially pragmatic foreign policy designed above all to further India\u2019s domestic economic development.<\/p>\n<p>To read the full &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.chathamhouse.org\/publication\/ia\/narendra-modi-and-india-s-normative-power\">Narendra Modi and India&#8217;s normative power<\/a>&#8221; article by Griffith Asia Institute and Centre for Governance and Public Policy Professor, Ian Hall, please visit The Royal Institute for International Affairs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IAN HALL | Periodically, India has sought to act as a \u2018normative power\u2019 in international affairs, advancing a normative agenda about how states and other actors ought to behave, what norms and rules should regulate their interactions, and what institutions should exist to make and enforce them. 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