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India’s Strategic Autonomy And Lessons For World Politics

India’s experience shows that strategic autonomy, strong institutions, and long-term thinking remain the most effective tools for safeguarding national interest in an unequal global system, where power is concentrated in the hands of a few states and pressure on independent countries is a constant reality.

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