Geopolitics and Indian Strategy (Video)
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Ahmedabad University
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In this session of the Seminar and Lecture Series, Shivshankar Menon, Former National Security Advisor and Foreign Secretary, Government of India; Visiting Professor, Ashoka University; Chair of the Ashoka Centre for China Studies, examines India’s foreign and security practice, and policy and strategy since independence, to get a sense of how India’s strategy shifted as the geopolitics of Asia changed, and, equally significantly, as her capacities grew. The talk begins its examination with non-alignment as a response to a bi-polar Cold War world when Indian capacities were extremely limited, through the unipolar moment with the USA as the sole superpower, to the present situation of a world adrift between orders when India has developed influence but faces unprecedented challenges. It concludes with the speaker’s ideas on a possible way forward for India.