India-African Union: An Asymmetric Quasi-interregional Sub-system

Historical events had created warm relations between India and Africa. Even though both are in developing category and with structural similarities, India has achieved success in many areas. At the same time, beyond regionalism a new arrangement has emerged in international system called as interregionalism. India has also acknowledged the importance of interregionalism and started to use this arrangement in its external relations. Recently, India entered into a variant of such arrangement, Quasi-interregionalism, with African continent. In order to get success out of the schemes and programmes and to build strong Africa the nature of this arrangement is to be studied deeply. This paper will be arranged in two parts and studied by using qualitative methods and with the help of Systems Theory. The first part of paper will discuss about quasi-interregionalism and its nature and second part will discuss India-African Union capabilities within that framework.