ABSTRACT
Introduction Given how India’s high level of dependence on external energy sources will continue into the foreseeable future, energy security can be expected to remain near the top of the government’s foreign policy agenda. India’s signifi cant attachment to strategic autonomy since independence still exerts a discernible Nationalist pull on foreign policy thinking and infl uences the way India responds to energy vulnerabilities. 1 Yet, India’s story of higher growth rates after liberalization and greater international integration over the past two decades is giving Globalist arguments, shared by many Realists for their own reasons, more currency on energy issues.
