India, May 24 -- In the fast-changing global political landscape, India's strategic outreach to Nordic countries signifies the complementarity in India - Europe relations and, more specifically, to the Nordic countries, as was witnessed in the 3rd India-Nordic Summit. The summit marked a new milestone in India's foreign policy. It signals an obvious and strategically calibrated turn by India towards a region long regarded as peripheral to its foreign policy calculus, and Nordic countries' foreign policy calculus is seen now as increasingly core to its ambitions as an emerging global player.

Why does this region matter now

The Nordic countries, comprising Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Iceland with a population of 27 million, are p...