India’s policymakers understand that 13 months after the Ukraine war began, the world order will not survive in its previous form; and the country has to adapt quickly, since a prolonged period of big power confrontation is to be expected with Russia …
The struggle is attritional, and endemic to prolonged transitions. Meanwhile, the Ukraine crisis revealed an increasingly complex international picture, as important emerging economies — such as Brazil, India, South Africa, and most of West Asia.
Without doubt, the Global South will play a major role in shaping the outcome of the current struggle — and, indeed, many among them and their regions remember the brutal era of colonialism, and the bitter legacy of the US hegemony in the recent past. A great revision of the world order is under way. The bell tolls for the end of Western dominance of the international system. […]
Expectations are high that India will be on the right side of history — and be an anchor sheet of a democratised world order and of global governance rooted in genuine multilateralism, where all countries, big and small, have the space and freedom to choose their way of life. India should not shrink into the mindset of a ‘swing’ state or remain a ‘counterweight’ in the toolbox of some big power, content with short-term gains. Läs artikel