Socio-economic Compulsions on Climate Change and Energy Security of India

Abstract

The socio-economic regulation has significant impact in shaping foreign policy choices of any country. This paper tries to analyze one major thrust in Indian foreign policy: climate change and energy security. It focuses on the domestic factors and compulsions in shaping the foreign policy of India on specific issues related to social welfare of the common people. Ideational liberalism one of the important variant of liberalism makes an important assumption that socioeconomic regulations play an important role in framing the foreign policy of any country. Itis significant to identify how the Indian foreign policy makers have decoded these domestic compulsions and incorporated demands into government policies. An investigation is based on the premises that socio-economic domestic compulsions have significant capability to influence the choices of Indian foreign policy.