Shaping the Emerging World: India and the Multilateral Order

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India faces a defining period. Its status as a global power is not only recognized but increasingly institutionalized, even as geopolitical shifts create simultaneous opportunities and challenges. India experienced rapid growth through participation in the existing multilateral ordernow its development strategy makes it depen- dent on this order. With critical interests in almost every major multilateral regime and vital stakes in several emerging ones, India might have no choice but to influence the evolving multilateral order if it is to sustain its own interests.

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"There is a veritable flood of books on India these days. But this book stands out. WithIndia's dramatic rise since the 1991 reforms, following China's even more impressiveeconomic emergence, Asia's sleeping giants are finally awake. How they fitinto the multilateral system is therefore of extraordinary importance to themselves andto the world. This group of world-renowned authors offer a splendid and insightfulanalysis of how rising India approaches multilateralism. Read and be instructed." Jagdish Bhagwati, author of In Defense ofGlobalization and Why Growth Matters

" Shaping the Emerging World... offers a stimulating and insightful look at a diverserange of issues related to India's growing engagement with multilateralism. Thiscollection of well-argued essays, rich in nuanced analysis,... will deepen theserious reader's understanding of Indian diplomacy in an increasingly multilateralworld. This book is a valuable contribution to an insufficiently studied aspect ofIndian foreign policy." Dr. Shashi Tharoor, Minister of State for Human Resource Development,India

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Waheguru Pal Singh Sidhu is a senior fellow at New York University's Center on International Cooperation and a regular columnist on international strategic issues for the Mint newspaper in India. Pratap Bhanu Mehta is president of the Centre for Policy Research in New Delhi. Bruce Jones is a senior fellow and director of the Managing Global Order project under the Foreign Policy program at the Brookings Institution.