Shivshankar Menon & John Mearsheimer - Navigating the New World (Dis)order: India's Strategic Challenges and Opportunities
Join us for an insightful dialogue between two distinguished experts in international relations: Shivshankar Menon, former Indian National Security Advisor, and John Mearsheimer, renowned political scientist. They will explore India's evolving role in global affairs, examining the challenges and opportunities facing the world's largest democracy in an increasingly complex geopolitical landscape. Don't miss this unique opportunity to gain valuable insights into India's foreign policy, great power dynamics, and the future of international relations from two of the field's most respected voices.
Speakers
Shivshankar Menon is currently visiting professor at Ashoka University, India, and Chair of the Ashoka Centre for China Studies. He was National Security Advisor to the Prime Minister of India, 2010-2014; Foreign Secretary of India, 2006-2009; and has served as the Indian Ambassador or High Commissioner to China, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Israel. He has published “Choices; Inside the Making of Indian Foreign Policy” (2016) and “India and Asian Geopolitics” The Past, Present (2021).
John J. Mearsheimer is the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, where he has taught since 1982. He graduated from West Point (1970), has a PhD in political science from Cornell University (1981), and has written extensively about security issues and international politics. His latest book is How States Think: The Rationality of Foreign Policy (with Sebastian Rosato, 2023). In 2020, he won the James Madison Award, which is given once every three years by the American Political Science Association to “an American political scientist who has made a distinguished scholarly contribution to political science.”
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