India and Asian Geopolitics: The Past, Present

Shivshankar Menon. Publisher: Brookings Institution Press, (2021), Washington D.C. ISBN: 978-0815737230, 416 pp.

Abstract

The book, India and Asian Geopolitics: The Past, Present is a thesis of Shivshankar Menon’s discussion with young students of International Relations at Ashoka University. The generation of students, he teaches, is mostly born in the 21st century, the time when India is already in a race to achieve the status of an influential state along with other Asian states. He advocates that Asia, presently, is at the centre of world politics. In highlighting the success of the Asian states, he writes: “India and China have eliminated more poverty in a shorter amount of time than any other nations in history. Several Asian states have acquired the agency in the international system unprecedented in their modern history.”