Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership and European Union in Asia – India as Regional Determinant?

Abstract Subject and purpose of work Inner dynamics influence external processes of economic interaction between nations, trading blocs, and multilateral institutions. The flexibility and internal cohesion of domestic decision-making mechanisms creates conditions of forging ahead or adoption of stasis as reflex position during negotiations. The research article seeks to explain the policy making and reflex postures of India towards trade negotiations while seeking economic alliances to further commercial prosperity for the world’s largest democracy in population terms with the European Union. The inherent dynamism comes forward in economic policy making, exemplified by multiple channels and influences leading to fruition of acknowledging benefits over inertia. Materials and methods A Comprehensive Economic Partnership with EU augurs national stolidity giving way to mutual economic interests beneficial, and a micro-macro linkage approach provides theoretical ballast to arguments made. Results Pervasive regional differences and profound institutional economic crises with periodic flourishes of integration with global compacts are desultory. Bureaucracies in some countries are apprehensive of the encroaching of the market on their assumed decline in positional power within the political framework. Conclusions The study suggests that institutional policy making regarding India is stuck in rigmarole of delay and dither by preventing innate regional wants to deepen commercialism by taking refuge in a plethora of rules, many incomprehensible and not in synchrony with contemporary times.