In 2016 India became the world’s fastest growing large economy, overtaking China. India’s resurgence has renewed global interest in the geopolitical implications of India’s economic rise. Sanjaya Baru’s book explores India’s evolving geoeconomic relations with the West and with Asia, particularly China, in the aftermath of the global financial crisis of 2008-09. These essays analyse the influence of business and trade on foreign policy, India’s approach to multilateralism and the relevance of regional trade integration for the Indian economy and South Asia.
The essays were written after Baru served a term in the Prime Minister’s Office in New Delhi as a key advisor to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh during India’s negotiation of a civil nuclear energy agreement with the United States.They show the author’s intimate knowledge of India’s external economic policies, acquired from his vantage position as an influential newspaper editor and an advisor to the Prime Minister.
Sanjaya Baru is one of India’s most respected economic and political analysts. He has been Chief Editor of major financial newspapers, a media advisor and spokesman of a Prime Minister of India; a professor at important universities and think tanks in New Delhi and Singapore, author of best-selling books, including Strategic Consequences of India’s Economic Performance (Academic Foundation, 2006) and The Accidental Prime Minister (Penguin Viking, 2014). He was till recently Director for Geo-economics and Strategy, International Institute for Strategic Studies, London. He was a member of India’s National Security Advisory Board.
Chief Guest: Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman, Hon’ble Union Minister of State, Commerce and Industry
Panelists:
- Shyam Saran, Former Foreign Secretary of India
- Harsh Pant, Professor, King’s College
- Raghav Bahl, Founder, Network 18
Programme:
6:00 pm: Tea / Get-together
6:30 pm: Welcome note by the publisher
– Sanu Kapila (Director, Academic Foundation)
6:35 pm: Remarks by the author
6:45 pm: Release of the book, followed by address by the Chief Guest
– Nirmala Sitharaman (Union Minister of State for Commerce and Industry)
7:00 pm: Remarks by the distinguished panelists:
– Shyam Saran, Harsh Pant, Raghav Bahl
7:30 pm: Concluding remarks by the author
7:40 pm: Vote of thanks
– Rituraj Kapila (Director, Academic Foundation)
