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This chapter examines the extent to which the emergence of India as a putative major power has stimulated an increased interest in the development of the relationship between the EU and India. The EU has pursued diplomacy with India, based on its well established conception of a strategic partnership, for nearly a decade but success has been elusive for a variety of reasons examined in this chapter. This is in sharp contrast to the success that the Unites States has experienced in pursuing a robust diplomacy focussed in particular, but not exclusively, on security concerns. The EU has had to contend with assertive Indian positions on trade and climate change and on the rightful position and status of India in the evolving structures of global governance — both formal and informal. The chapter examines some of the reasons for the EU’s relative lack of success in developing a ‘major power’ dialogue with India. It then considers what impact, if any, the new external relations institutions and procedures established by the Lisbon Treaty might have on the EU’s performance as a strategic partner for India in the emerging global and regional arenas within which they both seek to operate.
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Allen, D. (2013). The EU and India: Strategic Partners but Not a Strategic Partnership. In: Christiansen, T., Kirchner, E., Murray, P. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of EU-Asia Relations. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230378704_37
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