Authors : Harsh V. Pant | Vivek Mishra
Originally Published Council on Foreign Relations
Published on: Mar 21, 2025
The broader Indian populace may have missed the nuances of President Donald Trump’s address on March 4 to the U.S. Congress, but his speech carried implications, both implicit and explicit, for India. First, the United States’ resolutely domestic orientation has impacted the world like never before. Second, the Trump administration’s unforgiving and at times incoherent policy choices since the inauguration have challenged allies, partners, and friends alike, forcing them to make adjustments of their own. At the forefront of this change are the administration’s trade policies in North America, specifically with its neighbors, Canada and Mexico, as well as a fundamental reversal on Ukraine. These radical swings in foreign policy serve as strong cautionary tales for countries that remain relatively unscathed by the Trump administration’s rapid policy salvos, such as India.
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* Professor Harsh V. Pant is Vice President – Studies and Foreign Policy at Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi. He is a Professor of International Relations with King's India Institute at King’s College London. He is also Director (Honorary) of Delhi School of Transnational Affairs at Delhi University. Professor Pant has been a Visiting Professor at the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore; a Visiting Professor at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi; a Visiting Fellow at the Center for the Advanced Study of India, University of Pennsylvania; a Visiting Scholar at the Center for International Peace and Security Studies, McGill University; a Non-Resident Fellow with the Wadhwani Chair in US-India Policy Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, DC; and an Emerging Leaders Fellow at the Australia-India Institute, University of Melbourne. Professor Pant's current research is focused on Asian security issues. His most recent books include India and Global Governance: A Rising Power and Its Discontents (Routledge), Politics and Geopolitics: Decoding India’s Neighbourhood Challenge (Rupa), America and the Indo-Pacific: Trump and Beyond (Routledge), New Directions in India’s Foreign Policy: Theory and Praxis (Cambridge University Press), India’s Nuclear Policy (Oxford University Press), The US Pivot and Indian Foreign Policy (Palgrave Macmillan), Handbook of Indian Defence Policy (Routledge), and India’s Afghan Muddle (HarperCollins). Professor Pant writes regularly for various Indian and international media outlets including the Japan Times, the Wall Street Journal, the National (UAE), the Hindustan Times, and the Telegraph.