Mar 06 2025 to Mar 06 2025 6:30 p.m.

Where

Bangalore International Centre

7 4th Main Rd, Stage 2, Domlur 560071

Event Description

The object of this lecture is to analyze the world order that was put in place at the end of World War II, examine how it has unfolded in terms of experience since then, and highlight some important manifestations of its multiple crises, to discuss possible future scenarios for 2050. In doing so, it asks four questions and seeks to provide answers.

Are we witnessing the beginnings of a transformative change in the world order? Are we at the cusp of an emerging bi-polar world order, with the United States and China as the two superpowers? Are we moving towards a multi-polar world, in which there will be another 8-10 countries that are also key players? Are we going to live with a fluid situation and a de facto continuation of Pax Americana?

The lecture will be followed by a Q&A with the audience.
Speaker
Deepak Nayyar
Emeritus Professor, Economics, Jawaharlal Nehru University

Deepak Nayyar is Emeritus Professor of Economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and an Honorary Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford. He was recently invited to the Kluge Chair in Countries and Cultures of the South at the United States Library of Congress, Washington DC, for the academic year 2022-23. He was Distinguished University Professor of Economics at the New School for Social Research, New York. He also served as Vice Chancellor, University of Delhi. Earlier, he taught at the University of Oxford, the University of Sussex, and the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta.

Professor Nayyar is Chairman of the Board of the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, in Britain, and was Chairman of the Board of the World Institute for Development Economics Research, UNU-WIDER, Helsinki. He has served as Director on the Board of the Social Science Research Council in the United States. He served as a member of the World Commission on the Social Dimension of Globalization, as Vice Chairman of the South Centre, Geneva, and as Vice President of the International Association of Universities. His professional life in academia has been interspersed with time in the world of public policy, as Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India and Secretary in the Ministry of Finance.

He was educated at St. Stephen’s College and the Delhi School of Economics.  Thereafter, as a Rhodes Scholar, he went on to study at Balliol College, University of Oxford, where he obtained a B. Phil and a D. Phil in Economics. Professor Nayyar has published numerous articles in professional journals and several books. His books include the best-selling Catch Up and The Intelligent Person’s Guide to Liberalization, both of which have been translated into many languages. His latest books, Resurgent Asia, also a best-seller, and Asian Transformations, published by Oxford University Press, Oxford, analyze the remarkable economic transformation, and rise, of Asia during the past half-century.