Leaders from the world’s 19-largest economies and the European Union met last week for the Group of 20 Leaders’ Summit in New Delhi. India used the opportunity to turn what is usually a staid affair into a shiny coming out party, celebrating its G20 presidency and rising power status. The two-day summit was the culmination of a year-long national extravaganza, with over 200 meetings in 56 cities, and G20 education campaigns all topped with splashy posters of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s face. The G20 yielded success for India in spades. But whether it yielded similar success for the forum as a whole is not so clear.
Blog Post by Manjari Chatterjee Miller and Clare Harris via Barron's September 15, 2023 2:18 pm (EST)
Manjari Chatterjee Miller is senior fellow for India, Pakistan, and South Asia at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). She is also a research associate in the Contemporary South Asian Studies Programme at the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies at the University of Oxford. An expert on India, China, South Asia, and rising powers, she is the author of Why Nations Rise: Narratives and the Path to Great Power (2021, shortlisted for the 2022 Hedley Bull Prize in International Relations) and Wronged by Empire: Post-Imperial Ideology and Foreign Policy in India and China (2013). Miller is also the co-editor of the Routledge Handbook of China-India Relations (2020), a monthly columnist for the Hindustan Times, and a frequent contributor to policy and media outlets in the United States and Asia.
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