Shaping the Emerging World: India and the Multilateral Order - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0815725140 ISBN 13: 9780815725145

Publisher: Brookings Institution Press, 2013

Synopsis

India faces a defining period. Its status as a global power is not only recognized but increasingly institutionalized, even as geopolitical shifts create both opportunities and challenges. With critical interests in almost every multilateral regime and vital stakes in emerging ones, India has no choice but to influence the evolving multilateral order. If India seeks to affect the multilateral order, how will it do so? In the past, it had little choice but to be content with rule taking—adhering to existing international norms and institutions. Will it now focus on rule breaking—challenging the present order primarily for effect and seeking greater accommodation in existing institutions? Or will it focus on rule shaping—contributing in partnership with others to shape emerging norms and regimes, particularly on energy, food, climate, oceans, and cyber security? And how do India's troubled neighborhood, complex domestic politics, and limited capacity inhibit its rule-shaping ability?

Despite limitations, India increasingly has the ideas, people, and tools to shape the global order—in the words of Jawaharlal Nehru, "not wholly or in full measure, but very substantially." Will India emerge as one of the shapers of the emerging international order? This volume seeks to answer that question.

About this title

About the Author:

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.

Review:

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

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

About this edition

• Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0815725140
• ISBN 13: 9780815725145
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 367
• Editor: Sidhu Waheguru Pal Singh, Mehta Pratap Bhanu, Jones Bruce D.