New Delhi: After World War II, there was a period of geopolitical tension between the communist nations led by the Soviet Union and western democracies, including the United States, known as the Cold War.
Rather than a rear-view perspective about the current geopolitics, Madhav Das Nalapat’s ‘Cold War 2.0: Illusion versus Reality’ details the crosscurrents of the Great Powers’ dynamics in the 21st century and why it is important for a future-focused rather than a past-obsessed approach towards each other by the two biggest democracies on the planet, India and the US.
Published by Penguin India, ‘Cold War 2.0: Illusion versus Reality‘ was released on 4 September on SoftCover, ThePrint’s online venue to launch non-fiction books.
The book explores how one country needs to reinforce the other to jointly overcome the multifaceted challenge posed by the Communist Party of China to the global future.
The book has a foreword by Shivshankar Menon, which reads, “Professor Nalapat examines the policies of China, the US, Russia, Japan, India, and the European Union (EU) in considerable detail and then considers the interplay between the powers.”
Praising the book, Menon pointed out that it represents a significant Indian point of view and is thus a useful and knowledgeable contribution to that Indian debate. For it is only through democratic debates and the clash of ideas that we will learn to see the world through our own eyes and pursue India’s interests as a nation.
About the author
Nalapat was appointed as India’s first professor of geopolitics and the UNESCO Peace Chair by Manipal University in 1999, positions he still holds. Nalapat is an executive committee member of the Editors Guild of India, a member of the Indian School of Social and Economic Sciences, and an associate member of the National Institute of Advanced Studies and the United Services Institution.
He is also the editorial director of ITV Media Network, having previously edited the Mathrubhumi and the Times of India. He writes extensively for national and international publications and has authored nine books.
Nalapat has lectured extensively in India, the US, the UK, Austria, China, Taiwan, and other countries and has originated several concepts, including that of the constraint of China, Asian NATO, Southern Asia rather than only South Asia as India’s hinterland, and the concept of the proxy nuclear state.
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