India’s South Asia Policy under Prime Minister Narendra Modi (2014-2019) from: a Security Perspective

Abstract

Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, India has been concerned about the rise of China, especially its involvement in South Asia. Prime Minister Modi, in his first term, formulated a new South Asia policy associated with the “Neighborhoodfirst policy” in the context of a strategic competition between India and China which has gradually been unfolding in this region. On that basis, the article analyzes India’s new South Asia policy under Prime Minister Modi in the context of China’s growing involvement in South Asia and clarifies the process of implementing this policy during his first term mainly from a security perspective.