Name of the Game is Interdependence: A Comment Bharat Wariavwalla's ‘Name of the Game is Interdependence’ is a thoughtful and elegantly written essay that has insights for both the theoretically inclined academic as well as the policy wonk. The essay can almost neatly be divided into three parts. The first part focuses on the constraints that are imposed on contemporary great power relations (especially between China and the United States) because of multiple levels of interdependence. Amitabh Matto | July 2010 | Strategic Analysis
Maintaining Strategic Autonomy in an Interdependent World As I have understood Bharat Wariavwalla's thoughtful article, and from the current discourse on geostrategic global balance, three central issues can be raised. First, we live in an interdependent world that is the outcome of a globalised economy. Therefore, no country can expect to wield unconstrained power or strategic hegemony, which allows it to disregard either universally accepted behavioural norms or even national sovereignty. Therefore, it is irrelevant to talk of a unipolar world. Rajiv Kumar | July 2010 | Strategic Analysis
Realism Drives India’s Foreign Policy India’s Foreign Policy: The Democracy Dimension by S.D. Muni Ashok K. Behuria | July 2010 | Strategic Analysis
Name of the Game is Interdependence: A Response According to Bharat Wariavwalla, the Manmohan Singh-led government ‘believes that the US rules supreme and that the closer we stay with it the better we serve our interests. America will fight terror, secure us in the South Asian region and make us a world power’. In order to battle such a predilection, his article seeks to show the constraints on US power, mostly vis-à-vis the emerging superpower, China, which he implicitly sees as an emerging threat to India. M. D. Nalapat | July 2010 | Strategic Analysis
Enduring Rivalry China and India: Prospects for Peace by Jonathan Holslag Arvind Gupta | July 2010 | Strategic Analysis
Fairy Tale of American Decline and China’s Rise Has the power and influence of the United States declined in recent years? Does the current global recession, the outcome of the US invasion of Iraq and the resilience of the Taliban in Afghanistan provide adequate rationale to profess waning of US influence? Has China's power and influence grown to an extent that can effortlessly put it on the top of the global hierarchy of power? Is the US–China interdependence equitable enough to work as a deterrent against unbolted conflict? Chintamani Mahapatra | July 2010 | Strategic Analysis
Improving Policy Responses to Piracy in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden Region: What Role for India? The participation of the Indian navy in anti-piracy operations off the Somali coast is perceived by many as a manifestation of India's apparent willingness to take on a larger role on the global stage. This article explores the possibility for India to play a more important role in solving the Somali piracy crisis. Marie Christine Boilard | July 2010 | Strategic Analysis
Name of the Game Is Interdependence Lawrence Summers, United States President Barack Obama's chief economic advisor and formerly secretary of treasury in the second term of the Clinton administration, once said that there was a ‘balance of financial terror’ between the US and its financial creditors, primarily China and Japan. Today, China, holding some $800 billion in US treasury bonds and some $2 trillion worth of currency reserves wields financial terror against the US. Bharat Wariavwalla | July 2010 | Strategic Analysis
India’s Strategic Autonomy and Rapprochement with the US The debate around strategic autonomy offers a conceptual framework to understand how India, as an emerging power, tries to negotiate autonomy in its security and military relationship with the United States. In the context of Indo-US rapprochement, the dynamics of power relations are not commensurate with India's will to keep an acceptable degree of autonomy. Guillem Monsonis | July 2010 | Strategic Analysis
