The Jaishankar Doctrine refers to the foreign policy framework articulated by India's External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar — most comprehensively in his 2020 book "The India Way" — that has become the operating manual for Indian diplomacy in the 2020s. Its core argument: India should pursue its national interest without ideological constraint. It should work with the United States on technology and defence. It should work with Russia on energy and legacy arms. It should engage China on trade while competing with it strategically. It should lead the Global South while building ties with the Global North. Jaishankar has also challenged the Western assumption that India should align with democratic blocs on every issue. His most quoted line: "Europe has to grow out of the mindset that Europe's problems are the world's problems but the world's problems are not Europe's problems." The doctrine is not isolationism or non-alignment. It is sophisticated multi-alignment — using India's rising strategic weight to extract maximum value from every relationship simultaneously.