This article is devoted to pecularities of foreign policy of India – ‘Look East’, which has been progressing abruptly in recent years in the context of transformation of modern international relations, and it reveals that this country is striving not only for a regional, but also for a global status.

India, foreign policy, Asia-Pacific Ocean region, reasonable pragmatism, Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN), BIMSTEC, Mekong-Ganga Cooperation (MGC), velvet policy, ASEAN 1, ASEAN 3.

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