India in a Fragmenting World: Trade, Technology and Economic Security

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The shifting global dynamics—alongside the ambition to emerge as a global economic powerhouse—is causing India to recalibrate its strategy and renew its focus on trade policy.

India in a Fragmenting World: Trade, Technology and Economic Security by The Hindu offers a penetrating analysis of this new reality and the choices India must make as it confronts a series of urgent external challenges, ranging from punitive tariffs and energy sanctions to the very nature of modern trade.

This e-book critically evaluates the evolution of modern free trade agreements from simple tariff reductions to complex policy deals involving carbon taxes and data governance. It also explores the phenomenal, yet fragile, success of India’s services sector, highlighting the pressing need to modernise urban infrastructure and educational institutions to sustain the competitive advantage in an AI-driven future.

From the highly politicised trade dynamics with the United States, to the persistent economic dependence on Chinese imports, and the pragmatic yet controversial pursuit of energy security through Russian partnerships, this collection offers insights into everything India is doing and must do to become a resilient, technologically advanced economy in this new world order.

· Beyond free trade: why trade agreements are no longer just about tariffs by Ajay Srivastava

· The missing manufacturing story: why industrial policy has yet to translate into manufacturing scale by TCA Ranganathan

· The services advantage: can India’s export success power the next stage of economic development? by Rohit Lamba

· The American equation: India, the United States and the politics of trade by Deep Pal

· Living with China: the economics of dependence and competition by Santosh Pai

· The Russia energy bet: pragmatism, sanctions and India’s search for energy security by Nandan Unnikrishnan and Aleksei Zakharov

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