India and the European Union in a Turbulent World

The book examines  how the European Union, which in the past had tended to be seen by India as an undervalued partner, is now increasingly part of most conversations in fields like the economy, technology, standards, best practices, de

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Edited by Rajendra K. Jain

India and the European Union in a Turbulent World

Rajendra K. Jain Editor

India and the European Union in a Turbulent World

Editor Rajendra K. Jain School of International Studies Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi, Delhi, India

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Introduction

The world today is in geopolitical flux and in disarray. The 2008 financial crisis and the economic rise of Asia underlined the redistribution and diffusion of power and the emergence of a more multipolar world with the G8 giving way to the more representative G20. The postwar liberal world order established by the West—which was ‘neither liberal nor worldwide nor orderly’ (Haass 2018)—is under unprecedented strain. It has been eroded largely because the political, economic and security fundamentals that undermined it are invalid, and there is no consensus on other global issues (Tharoor and Saran 2020a: xii). The world has entered a period of profound change and uncertainty with the unpredictable behaviour of the Trump Administration, the rise and growing assertiveness of China, Brexit, a divided Europe, a re-emerging Russia, an even more disturbed Middle East, and the backlash against globalization. These developments, according to Foreign Minister S. Jaishankar, have had/are likely to have a six-fold impact. Firstly, with the broader d