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‘Our Diplomats Tend to Treat Smaller Non Hostile Neighbours Like Errant Schoolboys’
Curzonian blinkers
Much as we would like to exalt Jawaharlal Nehru as the founder of modern India’s foreign policy, like all other major countries our policy too derives its basis from one man, France’s Cardinal Richelieu who enshrined national interest as the only guiding principle to conduct affairs with other nations.
The French have an elegant phrase for it.
Raison d’état. Richelieu rejected the notion that policy should be based on values and sentimental considerations. He believed, as we all still do, that the state has permanent interests, the singular pursuit of which requires much intellectual and moral flexibility. He believed that the only challenge facing a policy maker is to decide what the national interest was and what it required? ....

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