India\'s Saudi Policy - P. R. Kumaraswamy, Md. Muddassir Quamar

150 Except for the bonhomie exhibited during the Nehru-Nasser phase, the Middle East had never figured prominently in Indian dip ...

151 Kuwait crisis resulted in Prime Minister I. K. Gujral not being able to visit any countries along the Persian Gulf but he di ...

152 represented India in the inauguration of President Hasan Rouhani in August 2013. Turkey was the other country which hosted P ...

153 Security cooperation has figured prominently in all the joint state- ments issued at the end of Modi’s visits and they enco ...

154 Other meetings: External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, UN, October 2014 Mo ...

155 June 2017. No such meeting, however, took place when the G-20 leaders met in Frankfurt in July 2017 a junior minister headed ...

156 During much of the period, the Middle Eastern region was looked after by Minister of State E.  Ahamed, who represented the I ...

157 parts of them. Territorial expansion at the cost of their neighbours has been a mainstream political discourse in many Arab ...

158 an economic recession from which the US had not recovered completely. Far from being a security threat, the September 11 dea ...

159 It is, however, premature to write off the US domination in the Middle East, especially in the oil-rich Persian Gulf region. ...

160 At the same time, the political settlement did not go down well with some of Iran’s neighbours who saw the JCOPA as a sign o ...

161 Islam and raised their head whenever Muslim rulers sought to covet the territories of their co-religionists. The differences ...

162 prime demands and most were leaderless protests. While the monarchies— rich or poor—survived, the Arab Spring became a signi ...

163 interference, India avoided making any direct or indirect statement that might be construed as Indian prescription for the u ...

164 but added to the hardship of the Palestinians in that area. The electoral victory of Hamas in January 2006 and its non-accep ...

165 the Indian request and offered a week-long safe passage and stopped aerial bombing between 9.00 and 11.00 AM which enabled I ...

166 Hannah, J. (2016, August 16). Saudi Arabia Strikes Back. Foreign Policy. Retrieved from https://foreignpolicy.com/2016/08/16 ...

167 PEW Research Center. (2009). Mapping the Global Muslim Population. Washington, DC: Pew Research Center. Retrieved from http: ...

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170 with the Gulf Arab rulers. Thus, during the Cold War years, political engagements between India and the Saudi Arabia were mi ...