Paper short abstract:

Asia will remain the main reference frame for India's foreign policy in the next decade. India lacks a coherent foreign policy vision but follows different strategies in the Asian sub-regions. India's engagement in Asia is nurtured by security concerns vis-à-vis China and its own development needs.

Paper long abstract:

Asia is shaped by growing economic interdependence as well as by a variety of old and new security challenges ranging from great power rivalries to religious sectarianism. India has to concentrate its scarce foreign policy resources towards Asia in the midterm perspective. China is the elephant in the room but India's strategy vis-à-vis Asia is also shaped by its domestic economic priorities. West and Central Asia are important regions for India's energy supplies, East and South East Asia have become economically and politically more important regions since India's Look East Policy after 1994. India's growing participation in the different regional organizations underlines some of the achievements. The paper will look at the different strategies and foreign policy initiatives vis-à-vis the different Asian sub-regions (excluding South Asian) after the 1991.