Titli Basu

Associate Fellow, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, Dr. Titli Basu’s article ‘Japan’s Road to Renewables Post-Fukushima’ has been published in ‘The Diplomat’ on March 11, 2021.

It is the 10th anniversary of Fukushima meltdown. How has Japan fared in mapping a realistic energy mix option, anchored on its 3E+S principle? As Japan pursues its energy and climate ambitions, Tokyo’s innovation and technology prowess will be the driving force in its road to renewables, writes Dr. Basu.

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• Published: 11 March, 2021

Associate Fellow, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, Dr. Titli Basu’s article ‘The US’ greatest asset in East Asia may be Japan’ has been published in Channel News Asia, on February 20, 2021.

The commentary argues that the US and Japan will need to shore up their economic heft and pursue a shared commitment towards setting the rules on trade.

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• Published: 20 February, 2021

Associate Fellow Manohar Parrikar IDSA, Dr. Titli Basu’s article ‘High Technology and India-Japan Strategic Cooperation’ has been published in Australian Outlook (AIIA) on February 3, 2021.

Geopolitics and technology are deeply intertwined in the digital age, where technology contributes to national power. As the race for tech dominance intensifies in the Sino-US systemic competition, stakes are high for other major powers. Liberal democracies should unite to chart common rules, norms, and standards governing emerging technologies. Balancing developmental priorities and wealth creation, national security challenges, and cost-competitiveness of technology present hard choices. But it also opens new opportunities for policy elites in India and Japan to tap into the transformative potential of strategic technology driving redistribution of power in international relations, writes Dr. Basu.

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• Published: 3 February, 2021

Associate Fellow Manohar Parrikar IDSA, Dr. Titli Basu’s article ‘Post-Covid-19 Strategic Priorities: The India-Japan Action Agenda’ has been published in Asia Global Online (The University of Hong Kong), on January 28, 2021.

The pandemic has thrown new challenges into the matrix, including rapid advancement in digital trade, strategic vulnerabilities in supply-chain risk management, predatory bargain hunting, tightening export controls and licensing practices for emerging technologies, and investment screening in core sectors. In this context, this article looks at how India and Japan are positioned in shaping strategic solutions?

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• Published: 28 January, 2021

Associate Fellow Manohar Parrikar IDSA, Dr. Titli Basu’s article ‘India's Indo-Pacific Reckoning’ has been published in Indo-Pacific Perspectives (Journal of Indo-Pacific Affairs) on December 7, 2020.

The narrow prism of analysing India as a mere “balancer” in the great power game is flawed. Sharper strategic articulation from Delhi is positioning India as a leading power in a multi-polar world. India believes that a multipolar world should be anchored by a multipolar Asia at its core. While the Indo-Pacific is dominating the political lexicon and strategic thinking in Delhi, the biggest challenge will be matching political intent with material and national capacity.

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• Published: 7 December, 2020

Associate Fellow Manohar Parrikar IDSA, Dr. Titli Basu’s article ‘China-Japan Power Play in Southeast Asia’ has been published in Pacific Forum on November 5, 2020. Strategic choices for Southeast Asia are becoming difficult amidst structural transitions in the international system. With US-China strategic contest at global level and China-Japan competition at regional level, balancing relations with competing powers is not easy for Southeast Asia. But it also presents an opportunity to leverage great power competition and maximise economic advantages and security guarantees. For Southeast Asia, it will never be a zero-sum game. ASEAN First will be the guiding principle, writes Dr. Basu.

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• Published: 5 November, 2020

Associate Fellow MP-IDSA, Dr. Titli Basu’s article ‘A Quad of Consequence: Balancing Values and Strategy’ has been published in ‘The Interpreter’ (Lowy Institute) on October 5, 2020.

As Quad gains strategic heft, a positive and productive memo will be crucial in garnering regional support and set out a vision for stability in the post-Covid order.

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• Published: 5 October, 2020

Associate Fellow, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, Dr. Titli Basu’s featured article ‘The Making of Prime Minister Suga’ has been published in ‘The Interpreter’ (Lowy Institute) on September 15, 2020.

Suga was considered the indispensable architect of the Abe administration, controlling Japan’s political nerve centre as Chief Cabinet Secretary since 2012. Making it to the highest office, navigating the dense factional politics, dominated by powerful political dynasties and bluebloods is noteworthy, but only the beginning. Should a snap election eventuate, Suga’s challenge will be to consolidate political capital and manage electoral victory in order to steer Japan through the challenges of the post-Covid world. Tokyo cannot afford a leadership deficit at this juncture, which would adversely impinge on important policy matters.

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• Published: 15 September, 2020

Associate Fellow, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, Dr. Titli Basu’s article ‘Shinzo Abe redefined India-Japan Ties’ has been published in ‘The Hindustan Times’ on September 09, 2020.

From capturing global strategic imagination with his “Confluence of the Two Seas” speech in the Indian Parliament to articulating the India-Japan Indo-Pacific Vision 2025 — the Shinzo Abe era is defined by high-powered diplomacy that delivered. As Delhi gears up for a post-Abe leadership, India’s ascendency in Japan’s strategic frame will endure. This is primarily because the variables that pushed Tokyo to incorporate Delhi in its Indo-Pacific matrix will perhaps become even more urgent, given the geopolitics and geo-economics of the post-Covid world, writes Dr. Basu.

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• Published: 9 September, 2020

Abe Shinzo made his mark as an astute statesman in international politics with intellectual bandwidth and a global vision to conceptualise grand strategic constructs such as the Free and Open Indo-Pacific anchored on universal values.

• Published: September 03, 2020
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