India and China in the New Asian Geopolitics" with Shivshankar Menon, Thursday, October 22 from 9:30Am-10:30Am EDT

H-Announce "India and China in the New Asian Geopolitics" with Shivshankar Menon, Thursday, October 22 from 9:30am-10:30am EDT

Announcement published by Sarah Jessup on Friday, October 2, 2020 Type: Event Date: October 22, 2020 Location: New York, United States Subject Fields: South Asian History / Studies, Chinese History / Studies, Political Science, Diplomacy and International Relations, Asian History / Studies

India and China successfully managed their relationship for almost forty years. Recently, however, a narrative of India and China as destined for conflict has taken hold in public discourse in both countries. This lecture will examine whether this is so, and the role of changing Asian geopolitics in the shifting prospects of India-China relations.

This online event is presented by Shivshankar Menon, former National Security Advisor of India under Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

Ambassador Menon is currently a Visiting Professor at Ashoka University, India; Chairman, Advisory Board, Institute of Chinese Studies, New Delhi; Distinguished Fellow of Brookings India; Distinguished Visiting Research Fellow at the National University of Singapore; Member, Board of Trustees, International Crisis Group; and, a Distinguished Fellow, Asia Society Policy Institute, New York.

He was previously National Security Advisor to the Prime Minister of India, Jan 2010-May 2014; Foreign Secretary of India, October 2006-July 2009; and has served as the Indian Ambassador or High Commissioner to China, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Israel.

In 2016 he published Choices; Inside the Making of Indian Foreign Policy (Brookings & Penguin Random House, 2016).

He has been a Fisher Family Fellow at the Kennedy School, Harvard University, and a Richard Wilhelm Fellow at MIT. He was chosen one of the “Top 100 Global Thinkers” by Foreign Policy magazine in 2010.

Presented by India China Institute at The New School. To register please click here.

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India China Institute

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