New Powers

How to become one and how to manage them, de Amrita Narlikar

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  • Oliver Stuenkel Universidade de São Paulo

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Rising Powers

Abstract

Dr. Amrita Narlikar, who teaches International Politics at Cambridge University, has written a very short and elegant book about Brazil’s, India’s and China’s rise. The topic of emerging powers invites, quite naturally, a lot of forward-looking analysis. The now famous paper “Dreaming with the BRICs: The Path to 2050”³, published by Goldman Sachs in 2003, offers a seemingly unending number of fascinating discussions, all based on the question of how the world will look like when the five greatest economies are, in that order, China, the United States, India, Japan and Brazil. Will rising powers integrate into today’s world order, or will they overthrow the current system?

Yet Dr. Narlikar resists the temptation of participating in the guessing game and takes a sober look into the past, analyzing India’s, China’s and Brazil’s international  negotiation strategies to answer the question mentioned above. She argues that “at one extreme, we may expect the new power to show complete socialisation. At the other extreme, however, we may also see the new power using its newfound status to pursue alternative visions of world order.” This issue already matters greatly today, for Narlikar rightly contends that today’s rising powers, while not yet well-integrated into international institutions, have acquired the de facto status os veto players “whose agreement is required for a change of the status quo.” This has important implications for the stability of today’s world order. If rising powers fail to assume global responsibility, established powers such as the United States may soon no longer be able to provide the global public goods that define today’s global order.

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Author Biography

Oliver Stuenkel, Universidade de São Paulo

Oliver Stuenkel is a Visiting Professor of International Relations at the University of São Paulo (USP) and a Fellow at the Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi) in Berlin. His research focuses on rising powers; specifically on Brazil’s and India’s foreign policy and on their impact on global governance.
His commentaries have been published by the Global Times, Sanlian Lifeweek Magazine (China), Today’s Zaman (Turkey), Deutsche Welle, the Konrad Adenauer Foundation (Germany), Mail and Guardian (South Africa), Times of India, The Statesman, Deccan Chronicle, The Asian Age, Pragati, The Indian Foreign Affairs Journal (India), the EU Observer (Belgium), World Politics Review (United States), Valor Econômico, Correio Braziliense, Folha de São Paulo, O Globo, Política Externa, Contexto Internacional (Brazil), Buenos Aires Herald (Argentina), Al-Jazeera (Qatar), and the Portuguese Journal of International Affairs.

His work experience includes teaching assistantships at Harvard University, projects with the United Nations in Brazil, the German Technical Cooperation (GTZ) in Fiji, and the Mercosur Secretariat in Uruguay. He was also a Visiting Professor at the School of International Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in New Delhi and a school teacher in rural Rajasthan in India.

Oliver speaks German, Dutch, French, Hindi, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and basic Urdu. He holds a B.A. from the Universidad de Valencia in Spain, a Master in Public Policy from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, where he was a McCloy Scholar, and a PhD in political science from the University of Duisburg-Essen in Germany.

How to Cite

Stuenkel, Oliver. 2017. “New Powers: How to Become One and How to Manage Them, De Amrita Narlikar”. Meridiano 47 - Journal of Global Studies 12 (124):29-30. https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/MED/article/view/4282.

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