“Opinion | The Great Pivot: How India Is Balancing The New Multipolar World”, News 18, March 12, 2026

“Throughout history, a pivot state occupies a unique position in the global order, acquiring leverage between warring states, even at times without having the heft of the major players in the conflict.

In plain terms, and as its name suggests, a pivot serves as a fulcrum upon which rests the balance of power between the multiple competing powers or empires.

However, history has also shown that pivot states do not remain pivots indefinitely. The sheer exhaustion of continual monkey-balancing often (and automatically) forces a pivot state to move towards a more definitive alignment. It either becomes a proxy of one of the major states or graduates to become a major power in its own right……”

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