The Obstacles to India’s Becoming a Great Power

CASI Seminar
Bharat Karnad
Research Professor in National Security Studies, Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi
Center for the Advanced Study of India
3600 Market Street, Suite 560
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104

About the Speaker:

Bharat Karnad is a Research Professor in National Security Studies at the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi. He is the author of India's Nuclear Policy [Praeger, 2008], Nuclear Weapons and Indian Security: The Realist Foundations of Strategy (now in its second edition) [Macmillan India, 2005, 2002] and author-editor of Future Imperiled: India's Security in the 1990s and Beyond [Viking-Penguin India, 1994]. He was a Member of the National Security Advisory Board, National Security Council, Government of India, and Member of the Nuclear Doctrine Drafting Group, and formerly Advisor, Defense Expenditure to the Finance Commission, India. He is a regular lecturer at the highest military training institutions and forums and conducts an annual Strategic Nuclear Orientation Course for senior armed forces officers for the Integrated Defense Staff, Ministry of Defense.

Mr. Karnad is the Fall 2009 Visiting Scholar at CASI.

About the Lecture:

Mr. Karnad will discuss India's enduring democracy and fast-paced economic growth, which have spurred expectations of India's emerging as a great power. Mr. Karnad will argue however, that without the country obtaining the wherewithal of hard power and clearing certain self-created strategic obstacles, India's rise is questionable.

Event Flyer

12 noon to 1:30pm

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The Nand & Jeet Khemka Distinguished Lecture Series is an endowed public program of the Center for the Advanced Study of India (CASI). Launched in the 2007-08 academic year, and made possible through the generous support of the Nand & Jeet Khemka Foundation, the series brings renowned India specialists to the Penn community and serves as a critical forum for analyzing and understanding the complex economic, political, social, and cultural changes that the world’s largest democracy is experiencing, as well as the challenges that lie ahead.
The Saluja Global Fellows Program has been made possible by the generous gift from Vishal Saluja ENG’89 W’89. CASI was excited to launch the program during the 2022–23 academic year, coinciding with the Center’s 30th Anniversary. This new program enables CASI to invite eminent leaders and rising experts on contemporary India preferably from the fields of media, culture, law, and contemporary history to be in residence for one to two weeks at CASI.