Neoliberal and neoconservative foreign policy in South Asia

In fact, the line of demarcation between neoconservatives and neoliberals in the United States and across the Western world is thinner than some people realise. In terms of interventionist politics and foreign policy; support for the ramifications of globalisation, some of which are the corporatisation of agriculture and structural adjustment programmes in the developing world ( especially in Africa) and being harbingers of “peace” through preemptive strikes, the two have much in common.

Taking you back in history, I strongly believe that subsequent to the disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991, India lost its powerful ally. India’s relations with the US before the Soviet disintegration reeked of distrust and paranoia. This worsened when senior officials in the first Clinton administration questioned the legality of the status of Kashmir as a part of the Indian Union.