India in Asian Geopolitics

Tellis, Ashley J.

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India in Asian Geopolitics

Asia will produce close to, if not, half of the world’s economic product by 2025. This is the real emergent change in international politics, but despite this fact the United States will remain the dominant power in the international system for the foreseeable future.

By Ashley J. Tellis

Published on Jun 1, 2007

Source: Rising India: Friends and Foes

The international political system is likely to stay, quite durably, a unipolar system for along time to come: that is, for at least another twenty years or so, if the statisticians are to be believed. But this reality is going to manifest itself in a world where the centre of gravity is shifting from where it has traditionally been for the last 500 years—Europe—to Asia. Asia will produce close to, if not, half of the world’s economic product by 2025. This is the real emergent change in international politics, but despite this fact the United States will remain the dominant power in the international system for the foreseeable future.

About the Author

Ashley J. Tellis

Former Senior Fellow

Ashley J. Tellis was a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

Recent Work

Paper
Multipolar Dreams, Bipolar Realities: India’s Great Power Future
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Commentary
India Sees Opportunity in Trump’s Global Turbulence. That Could Backfire.
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