Abstract
Three international factors, namely the US, China and Iran, will be significant in shaping the emerging dynamics between India and Saudi Arabia. While they have been important in the past, with the transformation in bilateral relations their significance will increase and create new challenges for the two countries.
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This proved useful in the 1970s when President Anwar Sadat embarked upon his peace overtures towards Israel that culminated in the Camp David accords of 1978.
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These were the visits by President Hashmi Rafsanjani (April 1995), President Mohammed Khatami (January 2003) and President Hasan Rouhani (February 2018) to India and Prime Ministers P. V. Narasimha Rao (September 1993), Atal Bihari Vajpayee (April 2001), Manmohan Singh (August 2012) and Narendra Modi (May 2016) to Iran.
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Kumaraswamy, P.R., Quamar, M.M. (2019). International Factors. In: India's Saudi Policy. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0794-2_10
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