Lawfare Archive: Shivshankar Menon on India's Role in the World
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🗓️ 25 September 2021
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Summary
From October 11, 2014: On his recent trip to the United States, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi emphasized India's desire to take up a greater role on the world stage. With India's renewed ambition, it is increasingly important for policymakers to understand what that role may look like, how it is envisioned from the Indian perspective, and how the country views international developments. Great opportunity exists for improved bilateral relations that bring stability, increased trade, and future defense, intelligence, and counterterrorism cooperation in the region.
This week, Ambassador Shivshankar Menon, former national security adviser and former foreign secretary to the government of India, gave a speech at Brookings entitled, “India’s Role in the World.” In his address, Ambassador Menon discusses the new optimism in U.S.-India bilateral relations on the heels of newly elected Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent visit and how leaders can capitalize on this new momentum. Ambassador Menon also delves into India’s relations with Pakistan, Bangladesh, and other countries in the region, its evolving outlook on China, and what role, if any, India can play in countering violent extremism found in groups like transnational terrorist organizations like ISIS and al Qaeda.
Strobe Talbott, president of The Brookings Institution, introduced Ambassador Menon and moderated the discussion.
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| 0:32.6 | Hello, this is Emily Day and this is a LawFair podcast episode from the archive for September |
| 0:44.2 | 25th, 2021. |
| 0:46.2 | Yesterday, leaders of the United States, Japan, India and Australia gather to discuss ways |
| 0:52.0 | to counter China's growing influence in Asia. |
| 0:55.2 | India, an initially reluctant member of the Quad, is one key to the alliance's success. |
| 1:00.5 | So this week, I picked an episode from the archives in which Ambassador Shivshankar Menon, |
| 1:05.6 | former national security adviser and former foreign secretary to the government of India, |
| 1:10.7 | gave a speech in 2014 at Brookings, discussing India's evolving role in global affairs. |
| 1:18.0 | I'm Cody Poplin and this is the LawFair podcast October 11th, 2014. |
| 1:24.5 | That was Ambassador Shivshankar Menon you just heard. |
| 1:27.3 | India's former national security adviser from January and 2010 until May of 2014 and former |
| 1:33.5 | foreign secretary from 2006 to 2009. |
| 1:37.6 | Ambassador Menon gave a keynote address this week at the Brookings Institution entitled |
| 1:41.2 | India's role in the world. |
| 1:43.7 | In his address, Ambassador Menon discusses the new optimism in US-India bilateral relations |
| 1:48.6 | on the hills of newly elected Prime Minister Narendra Modi's recent visit. |
| 1:53.4 | Ambassador Menon also delves into India's relations with Pakistan and other countries in the |
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