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<article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.2" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">Vestnik RUDN. International Relations</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="en">Vestnik RUDN. International Relations</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Вестник Российского университета дружбы народов. Серия: Международные отношения</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="print">2313-0660</issn><issn publication-format="electronic">2313-0679</issn><publisher><publisher-name xml:lang="en">федеральное государственное автономное образовательное учреждение высшего образования «Российский университет дружбы народов имени Патриса Лумумбы» (РУДН)</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">30685</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.22363/2313-0660-2022-22-1-153-165</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>PEACE AND SECURITY</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>МИР И БЕЗОПАСНОСТЬ</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="zh"><subject>世界和安全</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="article-type"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title xml:lang="en">Searching for an Economic Basis for the Indo-Pacific: Evolution of India’s Approaches</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>В поисках экономического базиса для ИТР: эволюция подходов Индии</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9041-6514</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Kupriyanov</surname><given-names>Alexey V.</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Куприянов</surname><given-names>Алексей Владимирович</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>PhD in History, Head of Group on South Asia and Indian Ocean of Centre for Asia Pacific Studies</p></bio><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>кандидат исторических наук, старший научный сотрудник, руководитель группы Южной Азии и региона Индийского океана Центра Азиатско-тихоокеанских исследований</p></bio><email>a.kupriyanov@imemo.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff1"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Russian Academy of Sciences</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Национальный исследовательский институт мировой экономики и международных отношений им. Е.М. Примакова РАН</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2022-03-30" publication-format="electronic"><day>30</day><month>03</month><year>2022</year></pub-date><volume>22</volume><issue>1</issue><issue-title xml:lang="en">Eurasian Ideology and Eurasian Integration</issue-title><issue-title xml:lang="ru">Евразийская идеология и евразийская интеграция</issue-title><fpage>153</fpage><lpage>165</lpage><history><date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2022-03-30"><day>30</day><month>03</month><year>2022</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement xml:lang="en">Copyright ©; 2022, Kupriyanov A.V.</copyright-statement><copyright-statement xml:lang="ru">Copyright ©; 2022, Куприянов А.В.</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2022</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Kupriyanov A.V.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Куприянов А.В.</copyright-holder><ali:free_to_read xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/"/><license><ali:license_ref xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0</ali:license_ref></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://journals.rudn.ru/international-relations/article/view/30685">https://journals.rudn.ru/international-relations/article/view/30685</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="en"><p style="text-align: justify;">The article is devoted to an analysis of India’s attempts to form an economic basis for its flagship foreign policy initiative - the concept of the Indo-Pacific. The author, using a multidimensional approach based on critical theory, historical sociology of international relations, the strategic culture approach and spatial approach, examines the evolution of the economic system of the Indo-Pacific in a historical perspective. India has historically played a key role in the system. So the Indian political elites believe that it has to be the regional hegemon. The rapid growth of the Indian economy at the beginning of the 21st century allowed New Delhi to start implementing its ambitions. The growth of neighboring China and its expansion into traditional Indian spheres of influence forced India to intensify the Indo-Pacific policy. Possible options for building the economic basis of the Indo-Pacific have been consistently explored in the article. The author highlights the economic mega blocs (TPP and RCEP), which India refused to join due to concerns about its economy; sub-regional trade and economic blocs and initiatives (SAARC, BIMSTEK, SAGAR, AAGC), local and relatively weak for providing the economic basis of the mega-region on their basis; finally, the latest infrastructure projects (Blue Dots Network, Build Back Better World), in which India is still hesitant to participate, not being sure of their effectiveness and fearing excessive involvement in anti-Chinese projects. The author concludes that India can either join Western infrastructure initiatives, or try to build an economic basis for the Indo-Pacific on a set of sub-regional initiatives. In the latter case, Russia could play an important role by implementing bilateral projects with India and participating in multilateral ones.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="ru"><p style="text-align: justify;">Проанализированы попытки Индии сформировать экономический базис для своей флагманской внешнеполитической инициативы - концепции Индо-Тихоокеанского региона (ИТР). Автор, используя комплексный подход на базе критической теории, исторической социологии международных отношений, теории стратегической культуры и пространственного подхода, рассматривает эволюцию экономической системы Индо-Тихоокеанского региона в исторической перспективе. Благодаря тому, что Индия исторически играла в этой системе ключевую роль, у индийских политических элит сложилось представление, что ей по праву принадлежит место регионального гегемона. Быстрый рост индийской экономики в начале XXI в. позволил Нью-Дели приступить к реализации своих амбиций, а растущая мощь соседнего Китая и его экспансия в традиционные зоны индийского влияния вынуждала Индию активизировать свою политику в ИТР. Последовательно исследованы возможные варианты выстраивания экономического базиса ИТР. Автор выделяет экономические мегаблоки (Транстихоокеанское партнерство и Всестороннее региональное экономическое партнерство), от которых Индия была вынуждена отказаться из-за опасений за стабильность своей экономики; субрегиональные торгово-экономические блоки и инициативы (СААРК, БИМСТЕК, САГАР, Азиатско-Африканский коридор роста), локальные и сравнительно маломощные для того, чтобы на их базе выстраивать экономический базис мегарегиона; наконец, новейшие инфраструктурные проекты («Сеть голубых точек», «Построить заново лучший мир»), в которых Индия пока опасается участвовать, не будучи уверена в их результативности и опасаясь чрезмерного вовлечения в антикитайские проекты. Автор приходит к выводу, что Индия может либо присоединиться к западным инициативам, большая часть которых носит инфраструктурный характер, либо попытаться выстроить экономический базис ИТР на основе набора отдельных субрегиональных инициатив. В последнем случае Российская Федерация могла бы сыграть важную роль, реализуя двусторонние проекты с Индией и участвуя в многосторонних.</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>India</kwd><kwd>Indo-Pacific</kwd><kwd>mega blocs</kwd><kwd>Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership</kwd><kwd>RCEP</kwd><kwd>Trans-Pacific Partnership</kwd><kwd>TPP</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>Индия</kwd><kwd>Индо-Тихоокеанский регион</kwd><kwd>мегаблоки</kwd><kwd>Всестороннее региональное экономическое партнерство</kwd><kwd>ВРЭП</kwd><kwd>Транстихоокеанское партнерство</kwd><kwd>ТТП</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group/></article-meta></front><body></body><back><ref-list><ref id="B1"><label>1.</label><citation-alternatives><mixed-citation xml:lang="en">Abu-Lughod, J. L. (1989). Before European Hegemony: The world system A.D. 1250-1350. New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press.</mixed-citation><mixed-citation xml:lang="ru">Брагина Е. А. 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