India, May 24 -- For India, fissures and fragmentation within the West introduce new strategic complexities. Over the last two decades, both the United States and Europe have emerged as key strategic partners across multiple domains, despite persistent conceptual and functional challenges.

The "West" as a political, economic, and normative construct in international relations is no longer as self-evident as it once appeared. For decades after the Second World War, the transatlantic alliance between the United States and Europe served not merely as a strategic coalition, but as a central organising principle of the international system itself. States within and beyond this structure positioned themselves in either amity or enmity toward i...