Strategic Hyphenation between India and Israel: The Major Areas of Cooperation and Constraints in the Post-Cold War Era

The article explores the steady strengthening of India’s relationship with Israel, ever since India established full diplomatic relations with Israel in the year 1992. However, notwithstanding the convergence of interests on a range of issues between India and Israel, this bilateral relationship will have to be carefully managed because of a host of constraints which circumscribe the same. This study examines those factors which are bringing the two nations increasingly closer and the constraints that might stand in the way of healthy bilateral relations between them. The first section of this article deals with those areas where both the nations cooperate. The second section highlights the various constraints that make it difficult for this relationship to achieve its full potential. This article explores how India has intricately tried to maintain a delicate balance over the years by addressing the areas of constraints in a very articulate way, so that the Indo-Israeli relations in the post-Cold War era continue to flourish.