"This Weekend’s Leaders Summit Brings Prospects for a More Sustainable and Useful Quad" - by CWP alum Manjari Chatterjee Miller

On Saturday, September 21st, President Biden will host the fourth annual Quad Leaders Summit in his hometown of Wilmington, Delaware. The prime ministers of the three other Quadrilateral Security Dialogue or “Quad” countries—Australia, India, and Japan—have all confirmed their attendance at the gathering. This year’s Leaders Summit is emblematic of two facts: that the Quad grouping has been steadily building strength through both the pace and structure of its meetings, and that it is making serious efforts to pivot from its anti-China reputation. In the long run, both are essential to the Quad’s sustainability and longevity.

Blog Post by Manjari Chatterjee Miller - September 20, 2024 6:48 pm (EST)

Manjari Chatterjee Miller is a senior fellow for India, Pakistan and South Asia at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and professor of international relations at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto where she also holds the inaugural Munk Chair in Global India. She is also an associate at the Asia Center, Harvard University. An expert on India, China, 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), Wronged by Empire: Post-Imperial Ideology and Foreign Policy in India and China (2013), and the co-editor of the Routledge Handbook of China-India Relations (2020). 

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