ABSTRACT Do Indian regional parties influence foreign policy and under which conditions? Some foreign policy studies have shown that certain coalition-building configurations have facilitated the inclusion of the concerns of small parties in the foreign policy debate. Other works have looked at the role of decentralization and federal power-arrangement in providing more control to political sub-units over the external affairs of a state. Those separate scholarships provide interesting insights to account for the multi-level nature of coalition-building in a federal and pluralistic polity like India. Bridging these two literatures, I argue that the interdependence of regional and national coalition building processes (visible in federal settings) create locked-in alliances between national parties and regional parties which affect foreign policymaking. In these contexts, India’s national parties have to, under certain conditions, take into account the preferences of regional parties when designing foreign policies. This article looks at the hypothesized causal mechanisms and expectations through two illustrative case studies of India’s foreign policy.

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联盟政治与印度外交政策的制定：一项新的研究计划

摘要 印度地区政党会影响外交政策吗？在什么条件下？一些外交政策研究表明，某些建立联盟的组合有助于将小党派的关切纳入外交政策辩论。其他作品着眼于权力下放和联邦权力安排在为政治子单位提供对国家外部事务的更多控制方面的作用。这些单独的奖学金提供了有趣的见解，以解释在像印度这样的联邦和多元政体中建立联盟的多层次性质。将这两种文学联系起来，我认为，区域和国家联盟建立过程（在联邦环境中可见）的相互依赖在影响外交政策制定的国家政党和区域政党之间形成了锁定的联盟。在这些背景下，印度国家政党在设计外交政策时必须在一定条件下考虑地区政党的偏好。本文通过对印度外交政策的两个说明性案例研究，探讨了假设的因果机制和预期。