Sandeep Bhardwaj

1 month ago | theindiaforum.in | Partha Pratim Ray |Parthapratim Pal |Sandeep Bhardwaj

United States President Donald Trump has emerged as an essential ingredient of a VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, and Ambiguous) world, characterising the present state of the global economy. Trump has made a number of statements and taken decisions that defy traditional economic logic, in the process undermining the global economic order put in place at the end of World War II. Is the old liberal order then going to be replaced by the new mercantilist policies of trade war and tariff arsenals?

1 month ago | theindiaforum.in | Sandeep Bhardwaj |Ramachandra Guha |Sunil Kumar

Since the turn of the century, the assertion that India is on its way to becoming a great power has become a cliché. The media is saturated with triumphalist narratives of India’s growing influence and status in the world. A vast majority of policymakers, academics, and analysts across the globe use the terms 'rising power' or 'emerging nation' to describe it. The claim has wide policy implications, especially in a world anticipating major shifts in the balance of power in the coming decades.