Pathbreaking, Historic, Transformational – the list of adjectives describing India’s G20 presidency is a long one. India’s G20 Legacy: Shaping a New World Order includes original perspectives and insights by practitioners, diplomats, and strategic experts that illuminate the multi-faceted legacy of India’s G20 presidency.
Edited by Manish Chand, a leading foreign policy expert and author, India’s G20 Legacy: Shaping a New World Order is an invaluable reference for policy-makers, practitioners, scholars, students, and strategic experts. The book brings out vividly how visionary leadership and a pragmatic approach can rally the world around a transformational global agenda, paving the way for a new world order.
With the baton passing on to Brazil in 2023-2024 and South Africa in 2024-2025, the book dives deep into ideas and themes that animate the legacy of India’s G20 presidency and the lessons it holds for the successive presidencies of the Global South and the future evolution of this global grouping. Incisive essays and commentaries by the key figures who steered India’s G20 presidency provide an insider’s view on behind-the-scenes developments that culminated in the success of the New Delhi summit in September 2023.
The book comprises articles by diplomats and strategic affairs experts highlighting the legacy of India’s G20 presidency. The foreword to the book has been written by Harsh Vardhan Shringla, India’s then G20 Chief Coordinator.
The contributors to the book included South Africa’s Foreign Minister GNM Pandor, India’s G20 Sherpa Amitabh Kant, Italian ambassador Luca and Brazil’s Ambassador to Kenneth Felix Haczynski da Nobrega.
Other contributors are Sujan R. Chinoy,Vijay Nambiar,Muktesh Pardeshi,Arvind Gupta,Anil Sooklal,Lakshmi Puri,Dr Mohan Kumar,Pradeep S. Mehta,Mukesh Aghi,Anil Wadhwa,Elizabeth Sidiropoulos,Rajiv Bhatia,Gurjit Singh,Nagesh Kumar,Vibha Dhawan,Manish Chand,Anna-Katharina Hornidge,Nitya Mohan Khemka,Pamla Gopaul,Abhay K.,D. B. and Venkatesh Varma