Neighbourhood Policy Crucial to Energy Security

The constraints related to India’s neighbourhood will however continue, particularly its volatile relationship with Pakistan, increasing closeness that China enjoys with India’s neighbours, aftermath of diplomatic missteps in Nepal and the Maldives, tenuousness of its relationship with Sri Lanka and Bangladesh depending on who is in power - all of these will necessarily continue to add to the vulnerable conditions that affect energy security.

• However, this is what makes energy diplomacy a key part of India’s foreign policy goals; or to put it in another way, the goals of energy diplomacy very much reflect India’s larger foreign policy aims.
• Despite claims ....