Internal Spirit of Optimism and Foreign Policy Readjustment
by
Dr. Lars Peter Schmidt †,
Dr. Malte Gaier
Backgrounds and Perspectives on the New Indian Government
The opposition party, the Bharatiya Janata Party, and its top candidate Narendra Modi won the Indian national elections in May. The clear victory conveys the desire for a stable government, which recently had been characterized by a political standstill. How can this outcome be explained and what challenges does the new Prime Minister face?
