India’s Strategic Outlook Towards Its Neighbourhood States

The purpose of the paper is to examine the problematics that the neighbourhood states face, their fault lines, and how they affect thepeace and stability in South Asia in general and towards India in particular. The analysis of the same would lead us to define India’sstrategic outlook and decision-making. It would hence be necessary to cast India’s Strategic outlook in relation to the conceptualisation of the term National Interest, the emerging global order and the fault lines in the new Global Order, and a brief understanding of the phenomenon of nuclear proliferation, collapse of Communism and keeping in mind Huntington’s postulation of the clash of civilisation and its aftereffects as we see in the 21st century