Critical Report: Opening the Black Box of India's Foreign Policy

This report offers a critical analysis of the article 'Opening the black box – The making of India’s foreign policy' by Nicolas Blarel and Avinash Paliwal, focusing on the process of India's foreign policy formation. The report begins with an overview of the article, its key arguments, and the methodologies employed, including the authors' analysis of PM Narendra Modi's Shangri La speech. It delves into the article's main arguments concerning India's foreign policy towards its neighbors, the US, and Russia. The analysis highlights the article's structure, including its subsections, and its strengths, such as its thorough research and engaging presentation. Furthermore, the report identifies the limitations of existing research in the field and emphasizes the importance of further studies, particularly in the context of strengthening India's foreign policy. The report concludes by acknowledging the article's contribution to the special issue of India Review, while also acknowledging its shortcomings, and its potential to aid future research on the subject of India's Foreign Policy.

INTRODUCTION
 Most studies are missing the actual in-depth approach to the matter.
 This study bridges the missing gap in between.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
 Authors of the study are Nicolar Blarel and Avinash Paliwal
 Both of them contributed in volume 18, 5 of India Review as guest
editors

ARTICLE KEY POINTS
 The article mainly consists of several previously
researched articles and previously proven ideas and
a lot of primary sources.
 It starts with PM Narendra Modi's Shangri La speech
and moves to in-depth arguments and discussions
about the country's foreign policy.

METHODOLOGIES
 At first I read the article attentively.
 Then I found out information on the authors and the publication of
the article.
 Then I noted down important information regarding my analysis. All
this information was concerning my critical analysis about the article.
 Then I wrote down the Critical analysis of the article, Opening the
black box – The making of India’s foreign policy.

MAIN ARGUMENT OF THE ARTICLE
o There are several arguments presented thorough the whole article.
o All of these arguments concerns India's foreign policy towards its neighboring
countries and US A and Russia.

MAIN IDEA OF THE ARTICLE
 India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Shangri La speech and its
analysis.
 Study of India's Foreign Policy
 Analysis of the Foreign Policies
 Some other key points about what the special issue is originally
about.

THE SUBSECTION OF THE
ARTICLE
 There are subsections that provides a proper in depth study over the
topic.
 These subsections also create the outline for the topic.
 The subsections of the article are, a) PM Modi’s Shangri La speech
and its analysis, b) then the article study about the foreign policies that
India is having in the recent times. c) Furthermore, the article analyses
these policies in the context of neighboring countries and previously
followed policies.

CRITICIZING THE ARTICLE
 An article of this stature might sometimes be expected to be over the
stage of criticizing. Although the article is well researched and very well
presented. It still has some unavoidable issues.

ENCOURAGING FURTHER RESEARCH
 Primarily the article recognizes the limitation of having proper researches and
evidence that are pre-existing on the context of the topic.
 Not having proper research on the matter provides issues with implementing
proper plans on the matter of foreign policy of India.
 As Narendra Modi becomes India’s prime minister, India is looking to
strengthen their foreign policy and encouraging studies to be conducted on the
matter.
 So the article ‘Opening the black box’ will surely help future research and
agendas on the matter.

CONCLUSION
Conclusively we can say that. The article is an excellent addition to the
special issue in India Review. All the notions of hard work and thorough
research are present in the report. Furthermore, the article is well arranged
and very engaging. However, some unavoidable shortcomings are present in
all the articles. The gaps work in the same context as this one. The article,
Opening the black box – The making of India's foreign policy will surely
help future researches in a great way on the subject of India's Foreign Policy.

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