India Emerging Power

The Brookings Institute, of which Professor Cohen is a Senior Fellow, is an independent organisation devoted to non‐partisan research, education and publication in economics, government, foreign policy, and the social sciences generally, whose purposes are to help in the development of sound public policies and to promote public understanding of issues of national importance. Stephen Cohen first examined India’s potential to be a major world power in India: Emergent Power?, written in collaboration with Richard L. Park (Cohen and Park, 1979). His purpose here is to present an assessment of its strategic and political power since becoming a nuclear...