Silence Is Not Strategy: India’s Multipolar Problem

This article specifically analyzes how India’s long-standing strategy of nonalignment has become increasingly ineffective in today’s multipolar global order. Where India once leveraged geopolitical balancing to maintain its autonomy and influence, its continued strategic hesitation today erodes its influence and foreign trust in its leadership of the Global South. By analyzing India’s geopolitical stance towards the United States, Russia, China and other emerging global powers, this piece argues that ambiguity is no longer an asset for India and the nation must instead adopt a clearer geopolitical identity to retain its global influence.