Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Poland and Ukraine this week marks the continuation of an under-appreciated effort in Delhi to raise Europe’s profile in India’s foreign policy over the last decade. Modi’s visit will plug a missing link — Central Europe — in India’s European policy at a time when Mitteleuropa has returned to the centre stage of great power conflict.
The war for Ukraine, now in its third year, is emblematic of the new geopolitical churn in Central Europe that destabilises the entire world. As Halford Mackinder the British geopolitical thinker put it at…
