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China is cementing its pole position as a champion of various challenges facing the world, in the fields of development, governance, security and people-to-people relations. Even as it is pushing its own norms out, China is also engaged in a process wherein it is discrediting the liberal norms as petty, divisive and destructive. In an era when the global leadership has turned protectionist and indifferent to the questions of global order it creates a significant and largely uncontested space for China to socialise and popularise its norms especially in the developing world. China is also challenging the idea of democracy simply by arguing that development itself is democracy and promotes the idea that liberal democracy is not a prerequisite to growth. This presentation will focus on conundrums like this and what they mean for the world order and for India.

Speaker

Avinash Anil Godbole is Professor and Associate Academic Dean at Jindal School of Arts and Humanities. Previously, he has worked as a Research Fellow at the Indian Council of World Affairs, and as a Research Assistant at Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses. His doctoral thesis focused on China’s Environmental Challenges and Policymaking. He was a Visiting Fox Fellow at the Macmillan Center at Yale in 2007-08. His research interests are in the fields of China’s Asia strategy and India-China Relations, Environmental Changes in China, Minorities in China, and Domestic Politics in China. He has written extensively on these subjects in academic and media publications. He has been associated with the India-China Think Tank Forum and has been involved in various other track 1.5 and track 2 events. He is also a Visiting Faculty at the Naval War College, Goa and reviewer for Springer Asia, Routledge, and various other journals on Foreign and Security Policy.

Chair

Rityusha Mani Tiwary is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science, Shaheed Bhagat Singh College, University of Delhi. Additionally she is an Institute of Eminence Fellow at the Delhi School of Transnational Affairs, University of Delhi and an Honorary Fellow at the Institute of Chinese Studies, Delhi. She is also the Associate Editor of the journal China Report. Her doctoral research unpacked the interplay of leadership, power and hegemony in East Asia and China’s role in shaping regionalism in the twin domain of political economy and foreign policy. She has held research positions in India, China, and Germany. Her single-authored volume on China’s Regionalism is under publication. She employs critical theory-comparativist lenses to study political economy, security, and foreign policy in China and India. Additionally, she is working on an edited volume on China’s Domestic Governance.

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