As a member of the Quad and the 2023 chair of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, is India acting as a counterweight or searching for balance between Eurasia and the Indo-Pacific, and between the West, which it simultaneously draws closer to and criticizes, and the Global South, on behalf of which it styles itself as a bulwark against China?

An Emeritus CNRS Senior Research Fellow, Jean-Luc Racine is also a senior scholar at the Asia Centre think tank in Paris.

Article published in Politique étrangère, Vol. 88, No. 2, Summer 2023.