India, Israel and Russia: An Emerging Triangle

India, Israel and Russia: An Emerging Triangle


The end of Cold War restructured the bipolar international system into the unipolar one and led to the readjustment as well as revisit to the foreign policy doctrine of its unit in order to protect and promote the national interest in new context. India was not exception. While re-establishing diplomatic relation with Israel and opening the door for the closer relation with the West particularly to the United States, India crossed the traditional idealistic rubicon and adopted pragmatic and realistic foreign policy. India and Israel have established considerably good relation in multi-dimensional aspects. Both have improved the trade relation in various fields including agricultural products, medicine, energy, Science and technology etc. They established a joint commission on trade. Both have joint mechanism in the field of combating terrorism as well. India which had the closer and timetested friendship with erstwhile Soviet Union made normal relation with New Russia in accordance with the national interest priories and developed its relation in several aspect as well. At the same time similar experiences of India, Israel and Russia in the field of modernization of defence and cross border terrorism, gave the triangular shape of relationship while recognizing the common interest in different dimension such as defence, security, science and technology, mechanism to combat terrorism.