This is a collection of essays written for the Financial Express, an Indian financial daily. The common theme of these essays, which cover a period of almost four years, from October 2010 to May 2014, is the issue of how India is finding its place in the world, after a history of colonization...

China has constructed and publicly announced a new grand strategy for Europe that focuses on foreign direct investment (FDI) specifically earmarked for Central and Eastern Europe. It has internal strengths and weaknesses plus external opportunities and threats. Foremost among the tasks that...

East Asian liberal intergovernmental integration is unlikely to occur without formal engagement by the United States. An Asian Union is therefore improbable. The European Union model is not transferrable to East Asia in that the former is a multilateral organization that has emerged that can...