"The Indispensable Partner?: India and the geopolitics of global trade" - by CWP alum Manjari Chatterjee Miller

While the BJP fell short of an overall majority in India’s recent parliamentary elections, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set for a third consecutive term – but this time as part of a coalition government. This is uncharted territory for the world's most populous country.

How might this new political constellation affect India's economic and geopolitical decision-making? What are the potential implications for India's trade policy and its positioning between the US and China, both of whom see it as a necessary partner? Lastly, what does the new political environment in Delhi mean for India's attractiveness as a destination for companies and investors looking to de-risk from China?

Panellists:           

Manjari Chatterjee Miller, Senior Fellow for India, Pakistan, and South Asia, Council on Foreign Relations

Neha Mishra, Assistant Professor, International law, Geneva Graduate Institute

Moderator:        

Rem Korteweg, Senior Research Fellow, Clingendael Institute

This podcast episode was recorded on 24 June 2024.

Manjari Chatterjee Miller is joining us as Professor and our inaugural Munk Chair in Global India. She is a tenured  Associate Professor of International Relations at the Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University. From July 2021-June 2024, Professor Miller was on leave from Boston University, and working at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) as a Senior Fellow, based in their Washington DC office. She will continue to hold a position as part-time Senior Fellow at CFR.

Professor Miller is an expert on international relations, security, and foreign policy in South and East Asia, and particularly on rising powers, China and India. She is the author of two books, and her work has appeared in academic journals as well as non-academic outlets such as Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, the New York Times, The Diplomat, the Asia Society Policy Institute, The Hindu and the Christian Science Monitor.

Prolific in her field, Professor Miller published Wronged by Empire in 2013 on the response to colonization in India and China. In 2021, she published Why Nations Rise, which draws on the historical cases of the United States, Meiji Japan, the Netherlands, and Cold War Japan. She focuses on the role of narratives in rising powers in the context of contemporary China and India.

Professor Miller received a BA from the University of Delhi and an MSc., Dept. of Politics, from the School of Oriental and African Studies University of London. She received her PhD, Dept. of Government, from Harvard University and completed a post-doctoral fellowship at Princeton University.

Professor Miller will teach courses this year in the Dr. David Chu Program in Contemporary Asian Studies and the Master of Global Affairs programs.

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