India and Africa: The Road Ahead
Contents: Foreword. Introduction. 1. Strengthening India-Africa Ties: Initiatives, Approaches and Emerging Prospects/Nivedita Ray. 2. Global Trade Governance, the WTO and India-Africa Cooperation: Prospects and Challenges/Pranav Kumar. 3. Reforming the International Economic Institutions: India and Africa in the IMF and WTO/Priyanka Pandit. 4. Democratisation in the Changing Economic Landscape of Africa: A Perspective/S. Shaji. 5. India and Africa in the Energy Sector (Oil and Natural Gas): Cooperation and Issues of Concern/Sanjay Kumar Pradhan. 6. Nature and Challenges of UN Peacekeeping in Africa and Areas of Cooperation to Enhance Effectiveness of Peacekeeping/Chander Prakash Wadhwa. 7. Deconstructing Terrorism in India and Africa: Prospects for Bilateral Counter-terrorism Cooperation/Arvind Kumar. 8. The Significance of P-2-P as a Strategy in Promoting India-Africa Relations/Sanjukta Banerji Bhattacharya. 9. Role of Indian Diaspora in Anglophone Africa in the Promotion of Bilateral Relations/Rajneesh Kumar Gupta. 10. Factoring Indian Diaspora in India-Francophone Africa Relations/Paokholal Haokip. 11. The Homeland via Bollywood: A Study of Indian Diaspora in Durban, South Africa/Nandini Sen. Index.
India and Africa, nurture a historically cordial relationship that has acquired a renewed significance over the last decade, with the change seen in their respective territories and the international system. The common interests that are driving the partnership encompass diverse fields concerning politics, economic development and security. With the changing international system and shifting geopolitics new opportunities are also emerging for India and Africa to collaborate.
Against this backdrop the book is an effort to “re-examine” India-Africa relations in this changing global order. It puts together Indian perspectives on various aspects of India-Africa relations and the road ahead. It contains some of the selected papers presented at a national conference on ‘India-Africa Relations in a Changing Global Order: Priorities, Prospects and Challenges’ organised by Indian Council of World affairs on May21-22, 2019. The issues and concerns that have been brought into focus through different papers relate to India and Africa engagement in the context of global governance, democracy, common security and development challenges, diaspora and people to people connections. The book also contains the perspectives shared by Hon’ble Vice President of India Shri M. Venkaih Naidu and Secretary (Economic Relations), Ministry of External Affairs, Shri TS Tirumurti on India and Africa relations in the changing global order.
