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Navigating the Middle: India's Global Role

Hybrid EVENT

Samir Saran and Leslie Vinjamuri discuss India's distinctive foreign policy strategy and its implications for the global order.

A woman waves a handheld Indian flag.
Manish Swarup / AP
Dec
18

Past Events

Navigating Reciprocal Tariffs and Strengthening US-India Trade and Investment Ties

PAST EVENT

Mark Linscott joins senior business leaders from across Chicago to discuss the evolving dynamics of US-India trade negotiations amid recent developments.

Workers in a manufacturing unit make leather footwear in Agra, India on August 25, 2025.
Manish Swarup / AP

US-India Relations in the Time of Trump

PAST EVENT

Paul Staniland joins the Council for a roundtable discussion on what shifting US-India relations mean for China and the region.

US Vice President JD Vance delivers remarks at the Rajasthan International Centre in Jaipur, India on April 22, 2025.
Kenny Holston / The New York Times via AP, Pool

Commentary & Analysis

Why South Asia's Regimes Keep Falling

In the News
Journal of Democracy
Paul Staniland

"Mass citizen protests have driven the region’s most dramatic political changes in recent years," Paul Staniland writes.

Protesters outside of the Singha Durbar in Nepal
Niranjan Shrestha / AP
Global Politics

Is India Under Pressure to Pick a Side?

Podcast
Deep Dish on Global Affairs Podcast

As Trump threatens to double tariffs and Putin courts Modi, can India rise as a great power without choosing a side?

India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi walks past the flags of participating countries at the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit, in Jakarta, Indonesia on September 7, 2023.
Willy Kurniawan / Pool Photo via AP
Global Economy

Research

The Quad's Next Chapter

RESEARCH
Report by Karl Friedhoff

Advancing the group's pillars of prosperity and development will be at the very heart of competition with China in the coming decade.

leaders of Australia, the United States, Japan, and India pose for a photo
AP Photos
US Foreign Policy

Iranians Consider China Even More Important Than Regional Allies

RESEARCH
Public Opinion Survey by Coauthors

A new poll shows Iranians recognize the economic and security benefits of a closer relationship with China.

Reuters
Public Opinion

Experts

Paul Staniland 

Nonresident Senior Fellow, Asia Studies
Headshot of Paul Staniland.