In the twenty third episode of CPR ThoughtSpace, Richa Bansal talks to Bharat Karnad, Research Professor at CPR about his new book 'Staggering Forward: Narendra Modi and India’s Global Ambition'.

The book analyses Prime Minister Modi's foreign and military policies in the context of India's evolving socio-political and economic milieu, global power politics featuring other strongmen-alpha male leaders (Trump, Putin, Xi, Erdogan, Shinzo Abe), and of Modi's persona and style of governance, and offers a critical perspective that helps explain why India has not progressed much towards becoming a consequential power.

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