India and the World: Essays on Geo-economics and Foreign Policy

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In 2016 India became the world’s fastest growing large economy, overtaking China. India’s resurgence has renewed global interest in the geopolitical implications of India’s economic rise. Sanjaya Baru’s book explores India’s evolving geo-economic relations with the West and with Asia, particularly China, in the aftermath of the global financial crisis of 2008-09. These essays analyze the influence of business and trade on foreign policy, India’s approach to multilateralism and the relevance of regional trade integration for the Indian economy and South Asia. The essays were written after Baru served a term in the Prime Minister’s Office in New Delhi as a key advisor to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh during India’s negotiation of a civil nuclear energy agreement with the United States. They show the author’s intimate knowledge of India’s external economic policies, acquired from his vantage position as an influential newspaper editor and an advisor to the Prime Minister.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Sanjaya Baru

Sanjaya Baru is one of India's highly regarded economic commentators. Presently, Media Advisor and Spokesperson to the Prime Minister of India, Baru was Chief Editor of The Financial Express and Associate Editor of The Economic Times and The Times of India. He was Professor, Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, New Delhi, and a Member of India's National Security Advisory Board. He is on the Governing Board of the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi, was a consultant to UNDP and was a J. Watamull Fellow at the East-West Centre, Hawaii. He is the author of The Political Economy of Indian Sugar and has published extensively on economic and strategic policy in India and abroad.