SCAS News - 29 October, 2015
New Book by Former SCAS Fellow Krishnan Srinivasan
Shortly, the book Old Europe, New Asia: Strategies, Challenges, Responses (2016), written by
former SCAS Fellow Krishnan Srinivasan, will be published by Pentagon Press, New Delhi.
Krishnan Srinivasan is a diplomat and scholar. He is a former Foreign Secretary of India and a
former
Deputy
Secretary-General of the Commonwealth. He is affiliated to the Institute
of Asian
Studies, Calcutta,
and to the Administrative Staff College of India, Hyderabad, where he
is Honorary
Professor. Srinivasan
was a Fellow in residence at SCAS in the spring of
2008 and during
the
academic
year
2012-13.
ABOUT THE BOOK:
"The book traces the various contemporary interactions between Europe,
essentially the European
Union,
and the emerging big economies of Asia,
primarily China and India. Covering strategic partnerships,
the
environment,
values and human rights, international organisations, trade and investment,
the author
considers
that Europe and emerging Asia could be natural partners
with considerable synergy in fashioning
a new multi-polar world, but are
handicapped by their respective internal weaknesses, lack of self-confidence,
and the
considerable influence of the United States despite the probability of
its rebalance to Asia proving to
be a non-starter. This book explores the
limitations of the present in Europe-Asian relations, and the potential
for the
future."
Read more about the book