• NUS ISAS
    • Print

    ISAS Insights

    Detailed perspectives on developments in South Asia​​

    54 : Indian Elections 2009: Foreign Policy Will Hardly Matter

    S. D. Muni, Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the ISAS

    13 March 2009

    Elections in a country like India are seldom driven by foreign policy. The voters, concerned generally as they are with the bread and butter, and law and order issues, do not get mobilised by foreign policy dynamics and diplomatic nuances. Even major strategic achievements with global implications do not move ordinary electorates.