That was book released yesterday by Dr Arvind Panagariya,” he said.A ‘Nehru development model’, inevitably produced a ‘Nehru foreign policy’ and “we seek to correct that abroad”, just as efforts are being made to “reform” the consequences of the model at home, Jaishankar said on Saturday, in his virtual address at the launch of the book ‘The Nehru Development Model’.In his address at Sunday’s event, he reiterated that a ‘Nehru development model’ produced a ‘Nehru foreign policy’.”I mean, it was obvious. And, it wasn’t just what was happening in our country, there was an international landscape in the 1940s, 1950s, 1960s and the 1970s which was bipolar. Then there was a unipolar landscape. And, both those landscapes have also changed,” the EAM said.On top of it, in the last two decades or so, there has been a “very intense globalisation”, a strong interdependence with countries.”In a way the relationship, the behaviour of states towards each other have changed,” he said.Finally, if one looks at technology, technology on foreign policy, technology on state capability, “technology on our daily existence, that too has changed”, he added.”So, if the domestic model has changed, if the landscape has changed, if the behavioural patterns of states have changed, and if the tools of foreign policies have changed, how can foreign policy remain the same,” he argued.
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