Everything that India has done over the past 15 months is fully consistent with its multipolar grand strategy. Global affairs journalist Emily Tamkin published a piece for Foreign Policy last week about how “India Is Stuck in a New World Disorder”. The subheading informed readers that “New Delhi wants to be friends with both Moscow and Washington, but the war in Ukraine has underscored the contradictions in its global vision.” Accordingly, Tamkin attempted to expose the alleged hypocrisy of India’s
Uhhh, anyone for a contradiction in terms? Wouldn't 'of more than one pole' mean that multiple actors contribute (to decisions, etc)? Logically, then, bipolar, like the N/S poles of a magnet, would imply opposition (and conflict). So, how could a party or country or pole, or anything with only one force be 'democratic'? Doesn't democracy require at least two forces opposing each other to create movement? What happens when the two are so close to each other as to be indistinguishable, like the Conservative and Labour parties in the UK, or the Republican and Democratic parties in the US? You don't see much movement there; continual deadlock. What about countries, where proportional representation creates coalition governments? Why is democracy working so much better in Russia, China and many other places, where people are, generally speaking, pleased by their governments, than it is in Europe or the US, where there is, for the most part, deep-seated resentment and outright distrust, not to mention disgust at politicians, of the governments in power?
"...an anti-democratic multipolar one."
Uhhh, anyone for a contradiction in terms? Wouldn't 'of more than one pole' mean that multiple actors contribute (to decisions, etc)? Logically, then, bipolar, like the N/S poles of a magnet, would imply opposition (and conflict). So, how could a party or country or pole, or anything with only one force be 'democratic'? Doesn't democracy require at least two forces opposing each other to create movement? What happens when the two are so close to each other as to be indistinguishable, like the Conservative and Labour parties in the UK, or the Republican and Democratic parties in the US? You don't see much movement there; continual deadlock. What about countries, where proportional representation creates coalition governments? Why is democracy working so much better in Russia, China and many other places, where people are, generally speaking, pleased by their governments, than it is in Europe or the US, where there is, for the most part, deep-seated resentment and outright distrust, not to mention disgust at politicians, of the governments in power?
Just a thought.