Country Report
With a strategic focus on India’s neighborhood, Prime Minister Modi seeks to create a favorable and peaceful reputation of India in the non-Western world, while at the same time fostering and intensifying old ties to Europe and North America. While the country’s ECP approach is branded in the context of idealism, India’s policy reality and controversies (in domestic as well as foreign policy) may now indicate otherwise, as India's image abroad is at risk of diminishing due to its declining domestic freedom.