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The global energy system is undergoing rapid transformation and reshaping strategic relations across Asia. This Wednesday Seminar presentation will analyse the impact of the transformation on India and China. The study identifies three significant changes in the global energy ecosystem, viz, the rise of India and China as the world’s largest energy consumers, the race to renewables and Chinese monopoly over critical raw materials and the emergence of the US as a significant exporter of crude oil. The presentation addresses questions regarding the rise of China and India as energy competitors in the region, and the impact that this competition has had on their bilateral ties. Specifically, it looks at how the scramble between the two countries for control over energy resources and trade routes in the region has shaped the regional order in Asia.

Speaker

Niharika Tagotra is a Senior Research Specialist in the WRI (World Resources Institute) India Energy Program. Before joining WRI, she was working as Consultant (Energy Security) at the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), Government of India. She is also the NBR Asia EDGE Fellow for the year 2021-22. Niharika has a Masters in Nuclear Physics and a PhD in International Politics. She also has an M.Tech degree in Nuclear Science and Technology from the University of Delhi, and an MS degree in Nuclear Plant Design from the University of Paris. During her Masters, she interned at the Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR), Kalapakkam working on the indigenously developed Fast Breeder Reactor (FBR) technology. Niharika has also worked with the Atomic Energy Commission of France (CEA), Cadarache, as a Project Assistant on Sodium-cooled Fast Reactor Core (SFR) technology.

Chair

Rajiv Ranjan is Associate Professor of Chinese Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Delhi and an Adjunct Fellow at the Institute of Chinese Studies, Delhi. Previously, he was an Associate Professor at the College of Liberal Arts, Institute of Global Studies, Shanghai University. He has also served as a Research Fellow at the Indian Council of World Affairs (ICWA), New Delhi, and a Visiting Senior Scholar at the School of Political Science and Public Administration, Shandong University, Jinan, China. His research focuses on India-China relations, World Order, Chinese Politics and Foreign Policy, Ancient Strategic Thoughts, Chinese Society and Culture and Environmental and Climate Change Politics. He has co-edited “China and South Asia: Changing Regional Dynamics, Development and Power Play”, Routledge, 2022 and “近代东方国家的变革 (Jindai dongfang guojia de biange), Jinan University Press 2020. His publications have appeared in Critical Sociology, Economic and Political Weekly (EPW), Contemporary International Relations, Political Studies Review, China Report, Global Environmental Change, International Affairs, Millennium: Journal of International Studies.

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