An Inclusive Indian Foreign Policy

Kubernein Initiative’s Flagship project explores avenues for a more inclusive Indian Foreign Policy.

This research builds on the evolving Feminist Foreign Policy (FFP) and similar gender mainstreaming approaches that encourage inclusive, intersectional policy making, which place human security at the centre of decision making. We draw from the core values of FFP and merge with our deep understanding of the complex Indian socio-cultural and socio-economic context. To this end, we use gender as a means to platform inclusivity, ensuring that policy outcomes are ultimately equitable for all of society. Our endeavour is to base such a transformative approach within the Indian context, and provide a perspective that could aid similar and likeminded countries while engaging with the uncertain nature of evolving challenges.

Along with our partners, through our research and stakeholder discussions, we look at what it would entail to take such a concept from theory into practice for India, the Indo-Pacific region, as well as the world at large, with an insight that any evolving approaches to foreign and security policy need to have better contextual understanding of partner countries and regions.

Newer developments to the FFP discourse have emerged in Latin America, Africa, and the Indo-Pacific; widening its scope and understanding from the original landscape of the transatlantic space. We closely follow and engage with these developments, build new networks, while strengthening old networks, in realising the crucial importance of national and local context in this conversation. We welcome and invite interested partners, people and organisations to be a part of this endeavour.