The international order today is characterised by power shift and increasing multipolarity. Countries such as India and Vietnam are working to consolidate the evolving multipolarity in the Indo-Pacific. The article maps the convergences in the Indian and Vietnamese foreign policy strategies and in their approaches to the Indo-Pacific. Both countries confront similar security challenges, such as creeping territorial aggression. Further, India and Vietnam are collaborating with the United States and Japan to maintain a favourable balance of power in the Indo-Pacific. While Delhi and Hanoi agree on the need to reform the United Nations, there is still some distance to travel to find a common position on regional economic architectures. The India–Vietnam partnership demonstrates that nation-states will seek to define the structure of the international order and in this instance by increasing the intensity of multipolarity.

当今的国际秩序的特征是权力转移和日益增加的多极化。印度和越南等国家正在努力巩固印度太平洋地区不断发展的多极化。本文介绍了印度和越南外交政策策略及其在印度太平洋地区的策略趋同之处。两国都面临着类似的安全挑战，例如不断蔓延的领土侵略。此外，印度和越南正在与美国和日本合作，以保持印度太平洋地区的势力平衡。德里和河内虽然同意改革联合国的必要性，但要在区域经济架构上找到共同立场，仍有一段距离。