No economic progress without peace
The Press Trust of India published an article on MJ Akbar's speech at The Gateway of India Geoeconomic Dialogue
The Press Trust of India published an article on MJ Akbar's speech at The Gateway of India Geoeconomic Dialogue
The era of globalisation is drawing to a close and a new one is emerging—an era of bilateralism over globalisation, of domestic over foreign focus, and reality-based policy-making
The opening session of second edition co-sponsored by Gateway House and Ministry of External Affairs had Inaugural remarks by M.J. Akbar, Minister of State for External Affairs, Mohammed Shahriar Alam, State Minister, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Government of Bangladesh, Yves Leterme, former Prime Minster of Belgium, and Ravi Shankar Prasad, Minister of Law & Justice and Minister of Electronics and IT
Hon’ble Ravi Shankar Prasad is the Minister of Law & Justice and Minister of Electronics & Information Technology at the Government of India. He delivered the Inaugural Keynote II at India’s second Gateway of India Geoeconomic Dialogue conference in Mumbai, organised in association with the Ministry of External Affairs.
His Excellency Yves Leterme, Former Prime Minister of Belgium, Secretary General, International IDEA delivered the Inaugural Keynote I on Europe at the Crossroads at 2017 T20 Mumbai meeting hosted by Gateway House on 13 February. Leterme's speech effectively explains the changing politics of global capital with the rise of new economies with respect to Europe and it's position in the world today.
Swadheen Kshatriya, the Chief Secretary, Government of Maharastra delivered the Welcome remarks at the second Gateway of India Geoeconomic Dialogue 2017. He stressed upon the importance of such discussions that would potentially help India's growth in the future.
Gateway House: Indian Council on Global Relations a seven-year old independent, foreign policy think tank, based in Mumbai, has, for the third year in a row ranked among the world’s top think tanks in the 2016 Global Go To Think Tank Index Report
There is a stark divergence between how the West views the world and how those outside it do. It is possible to oversimplify the equation, to portray the West as cynically self-interested. The West and countries like India need to reach a shared understanding of how the liberal international order can be reformed so it may be salvaged
Trump’s pronouncements about his intentions to challenge the direction and substance of America’s post World War II global ‘liberal’ order---terming institutions, like NATO, obsolete and pulling out of trade agreements, like TPP---reveal a preference for political-style deal making
The contours of globalisation are being reshaped. The Brexit vote and the election of Donald Trump mark a strong anti-globalisation sentiment even as leaders in China, India and Russia successfully marry nationalist rhetoric with a cleverly crafted overseas strategy, premised on the very tenets of globalisation. There seems to be a ‘pause’ in the unbalanced progress of globalisation of the last three decades—and this could have many positive outcomes