India and France bilateral partnership for advancing strategic autonomy in the Indo-Pacific region: Special reference to the Indo-French strategic partnership

Abstract

In the last decade, the geopolitical construct of the Indo-Pacific Region (IPR) has emerged as a key strategic location in the twenty-first century. IPR has become the central point of convergence, competition, and alignment. The aim of this study is to determine Indo-French cooperation in many areas of IPR. This study focuses on investigating the Indo-French bilateral partnership and the kind of strategic autonomy that has been pioneered and accelerated by India and France in the IPR. This research relies on empirical analysis to explore the goal and objective, and the qualitative mixed method involves investigating the answers to questions. This research focuses on two research questions: the extent to which the French and Indian synergies have achieved success as a strategic partnership and why is the Indo-Pacific region so important to the bilateral partnership of both countries? As a result, the strategic partnership between India and France is on the right track, and both sides have a common understanding of working together in the IPR. Furthermore, both sides continued to increase their corridors for multiple cooperation in the IPR.

Keywords

• India
• France
• Indo-Pacific
• security & maritime
• strategic autonomy
• geopolitics