India has adopted a hesitant and 'reluctant' policy regarding engagement in Afghanistan because it must balance requests from the United States to engage more actively against the need to avoid provoking its regional rival, Pakistan (Destradi 2014).

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  Regional Powers Still Matter! - Giga- Hamburg

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