Zaha Hassan and Nicolas Blarel join Shibani Mehta to discuss the Israel-Palestine conflict and assess some of its broader effects. How has the international society and India reacted to it? And finally, what shall be its likely impact on the future of the Arab-Israeli conflict?

Most studies looking at India’s foreign policy generally overlook how India’s complex domestic polity and bureaucratic apparatus shape the country’s outlook toward the world.

Under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, India has shed its traditional defensiveness toward the Middle East and engaged with all relevant actors in the region, including members of the Gulf Cooperation Council, Israel, and Iran.

India’s security relations with Gulf States are changing, but New Delhi needs to develop a strategic and political calculation toward its interests in the region.

India’s regional, economic, and, increasingly, security interests are closely interlinked with events in the Middle East, and more particularly with the Gulf.