In 2022, India surpassed the United Kingdom as the fifth largest economy in the world. Since the 1990s, a series of U.S. presidents and secretaries of state have acclaimed India as a rising major power that deserves to be recognized as a lead actor in the international arena.

T.V. Paul, an international relations professor at McGill University, explores in his new book The Unfinished Quest the key motivations driving Indian leaders to enhance India's global status and power, but also on the many constraints that have hindered its progress. Paul's analysis of India's quest for status also sheds important light for understanding the ChinaIndia rivalry, as well as India's relative position in the broader IndoPacific theater.

Join us for a special onlineonly program to hear Paul’s sweeping account of India's uneven rise in the global system. Whether India can be a "swing power" able to mitigate China's aggressive rise depends on its relative power position in that theater and its own evolution as an inclusive, tolerant democracy that can develop and utilize its most priced asset, the demographic dividend, says Paul.

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June 17, 2024

Speakers

T.V. Paul
Distinguished James McGill Professor, McGill University; Author, The Unfinished Quest: India’s Search for Major Power Status from Nehru to Modi

In Conversation with Dr. Kalidip Choudhury, Ph.D.
Chair, AsiaPacific Affairs Memberled Forum, Commonwealth Club World Affairs

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