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CIAO DATE: 4/5/2007
Will India Emerge as an Eastern or Western Power?
Kishore Mahbubani
February 2007
Abstract
Introduction by Dr. Devesh Kapur
(Director, Center for the Advanced Study of India)
Good evening and welcome. My name is Devesh Kapur, and I’m the director of the Center for the Advanced Study of India. It’s a great privilege and pleasure to welcome you all to the Center’s annual lecture. Twenty years back, I think it’s fair to say that it would have been hard to generate much interest in India; whereas right now, it’s hard to dampen some of the hype that surrounds the emergence of India. But I think that it is probably fair to say that the rise of China and India pose some of the most severe challenges that the international system will face, and it is both a great personal privilege and pleasure to have with us Kishore Mahbubani, who will speak on this topic. Before turning it over to Ambassador Mahbubani, we have the chairman of our International Advisory Board, Marshall Bouton, who is the president of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. Many of you know him; he was executive vice president of the Asia Society and he is a longtime scholar of India. Welcome, Marshall.
