Even 30 years after normalisation, India-Israel relations continue to garner academic and media attention in both countries. Though military-security ties are dominant, relations encompass a host of non-traditional issues such as agriculture, water management, tourism and culture. Moreover, the entry of both countries into the mini-Quad (along with the United States and the United Arab Emirates) could transform their relations into a larger regional economic growth. It has been 30 years since India and Israel normalised relations. However, these ties continue to dominate academic and media attention in both states. With hindsight, one could argue that establishing relations with Israel in January 1992 was the most defining moment of India’s post-Cold War foreign policy. Facing domestic political instability and severe economic crisis, Prime Minister P V Narasimha Rao was confronted with a twin challenge of a disintegrating and disappearing Soviet Union and the emergence of...
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