New Delhi, Nov. 3 -- While navigating through the compulsions and constraints shaping the current foreign policy of India, one finds the country's present leadership clearly supporting a multipolar world order - notwithstanding the United States' still-recognised ascendance and its self-obsessed approach in international relations. This often endangers the national interests of relatively weak and developing nations, collectively identified as the Global South, including India, even though it is now the world's fourth-largest economy.

Such dominance discourages the consolidation of global and regional institutions in a multipolar world and hurts the spirit of multilateral negotiations, causing significant loss to developing nations. Agai...