India's role in America's strategy of buck passing for China's containment

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 Associate Professor, Department of Political Science and International Relations, Faculty of Law and Political Science, Khwarazmi University, Tehran, Iran

2 Phd Student , Department of Political Science and International Relations, Faculty of Law and Political Science, Khwarazmi University, Tehran, Iran

3 Phd Student, Department of Political Science and International Relations, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

With the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Eastern Bloc, the United States gained global supremacy as a great power. But the developments in the international arena, especially the rise of emerging powers such as China, caused America to face serious challenges in the distribution of its power in the Eastern Hemisphere. China has become an influential actor in the international system and is seeking to expand its political and security influence in the world, especially in the Indo-Pacific area, by using its economic power. This issue is not acceptable for the Washington government, which has many strategic interests in this region. Therefore, the strategy of the United States to restrain China's power has appeared in the form of buck passing strategy in the Indo-Pacific region and India, among America's allies, has been able to play a role as one of Washington's main allies due to its special position in this region. This research seeks to answer the question of how India plays a role in America's buck passing strategy in the Indo-Pacific region? In response to this question that has been investigated with an explanatory-formative method and library research tools; the hypothesis and findings of the research show that the United States in order to strengthen the American buck passing was trying to build multilateral alliances with India through investment, bilateral trade, bilateral and multilateral alliances, signing military-security agreements, etc.

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World Politics
Volume 11, Issue 4 - Serial Number 42
December 2022
Pages 139-169

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