Bernd von Muenchow-Pohl is no longer with the Carnegie Endowment.
Bernd von Muenchow-Pohl was a nonresident scholar in the South Asia Program of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Von Muenchow-Pohl is a career diplomat in the German Foreign Service. Before joining Carnegie, he was director of the German Information Center USA at the German embassy in Washington. From 2005–2008, he headed the Economics Department at the embassy in New Delhi, where his work focused primarily on Indian economic policies and macroeconomic trends, bilateral economic relations, and trade and investment issues.
Von Muenchow-Pohl joined the German Foreign Service in 1986. His early assignments included postings to Seoul, Washington, Warsaw, and Kingston, as well as in the Foreign Office in Bonn and, after German reunification, in Berlin.
With the right mix of realism and self-confidence, the EU may be able to pursue a more interests-based and assertive engagement with China and India.
Europe can pursue a more interests-based and assertive engagement with both China and India that finds the right mix of realism and self-confidence to make the most of its comparative advantages.
As the global power balance continues to shift, India and the European Union seek to define their roles and strengthen their strategic partnership.
Both India and the European Union can be seen as emerging powers with shared features, interests, and challenges. Their “strategic partnership” holds significant potential, yet continues to underperform.
While the relationship between the European Union and India has a great deal of potential, it has underperformed. To revitalize it, both sides need to move from dialogue to joint action on a regional or multilateral level.
Despite initially high expectations, the enhanced relationship between India and the European Union has so far made relatively little impact and has fallen short of its own objectives.