Given the current state of chaos in the world with increasingly exclusive and suppressive socio-economic structures, an upsurge in nationalism, and global warming, among other things, Dr. Shashi Tharoor, Member of Parliament in Lok Sabha and ORF President Dr. Samir Saran in their new book, "The New World Disorder and the Indian Imperative", discuss the causes of this global disorder and the role India should assume to position itself as a leader. Acknowledging the three factors that sum up any international challenge today - the retrenchment of the US, the resurgence of the East and the uncertainty over the future liberal world order, the book raises pertinent questions regarding global anxieties around representation, authority, globalisation, and technology. Has a fractured political-economic consensus diminished global governance and the global community's capacity for collective action? What are the reasons for a global resurgence of national sovereignty amidst a wave of nationalism across the globe? Is the new world order going to be based on economic power, military power, prosperity or peace? If India stops being non-partisan, pluralistic and secular, can it still exhibit novel leadership that the world wants to follow? Should India act like China or become the counterbalancing power the world wants it to be? What is the expected global attitude towards China post-pandemic?
Nilanjan Ghosh, Director of ORF Kolkata, in conversation with Shashi Tharoor and Suhasini Haider, National Editor and Diplomatic Affairs Editor, The Hindu discusses the drastic shift in the texture of democracies across the world, the waning legitimacy of international organisations such as the UN and WTO, and India's imperative to seek opportunity in the crisis to assume leadership and use its domestic experiences to define the course for international engagement.
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