| Title: | The Changing Global Order and China’s Rise |
| Author/s: | Masood Khalid |
| Abstract: | No other development has had a greater impact on contemporary world politics than the rise of China. It has altered the global balance of power and triggered a discourse centred on the inevitability of a conflict between an existing power and an emerging one. However, a contrary and a more optimistic view is that both China and the United States (US) will rationally manage their relations and coexist, impelled by their interdependence and considerations of mutually assured destruction. Both have a stake in the present global order; China being its beneficiary and the US as its architect. However, both will have to agree to a type of framework which defers to each other’s interests and sensitivities, finds cooperative solutions to universal challenges, shuns zero-sum-approaches and works for global peace and security. |
| Date: | 4 April 2024 |
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| Title: | Reimagining India’s South Asia Playbook While Batting for the Global South |
| Author/s: | Monish Tourangbam |
| Abstract: | As India projects an era of aspirational diplomacy aimed at global leadership, managing its immediate neighbourhood still beckons acute attention. The question arises as to whether India is overstretching itself and not aligning capabilities and aspirations by emphasising its Global South strategy, while its vicinity calls for greater focus. This paper attempts to assess India’s playbook for South Asia while it bats for the broader Global South. It also attempts to inquire whether India could align the concerns closer to home with the call for a more exalted leadership of the Global South and how India could leverage bilateral and multilateral partnerships in this enviable yet challenging endeavour. |
| Date: | 21 March 2024 |
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| Title: | Revisiting the Controversy on Hunger and Food Security in South Asia |
| Author/s: | Puspa Sharma |
| Abstract: | The Indian government has strongly objected to the findings of the report on the Global Hunger Index and the report of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations on food security. This paper analyses the controversy and finds that there are merits and demerits in both the reports and the objections, which need to be carefully scrutinised further. There is a need for serious introspection on this subject by both the report producers and national governments. This is important because, among other things, the findings of these reports also inform the monitoring of countries’ progress in Sustainable Development Goal No 2, that is, ‘Zero Hunger’. |
| Date: | 28 February 2024 |
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