Certainly, India will be averse to being the promoter or participant in a competing effort. However, it cannot but be affected by the outcome of the ongoing struggle for spheres of influence between the pro-Russian and pro-American vectors or among contending projects Russias Eurasia Space project, Americas Greater Middle East Initiative, Chinas Assimilation project, and the EUs Integration project and last but not least the potential entanglement of the region in the World Islamic Caliphate project. Again, regional security in Central Asia is currently multilevel and unstructured and often contradictory, which compels India to avoid military-political cooperation. Having said that, India, as an affected party, cannot remain impervious to the permanent threat of the spread of challenges from Afghanistan to neighbouring countries. The diplomatic challenge is that India is called upon to promote regional stability and bolster its anti-terrorist efforts without resorting to military-political modes of cooperation. The predicament is similar to Chinas.
A redeeming feature of the Central Asian situation is that it is highly unlikely that any of the international players involved in regional projects will undermine the regions stability, which is already quite fragile. From the Indian perspective, Washington's continued focus on the Greater Middle East Initiative is of some particular interest. The U.S. thrust is on drawing the countries of the region into its sphere of influence as an area of responsibility, including Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan that constitute areas of instability. No doubt, the directions of the U.S. strategy to solve the Afghanistan-Pakistan problem directly impact on Indian interests.
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