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