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18/08/2017

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CSLG is organising a seminar by Assema Sinha

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CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF LAW AND GOVERNANCE Jawaharlal Nehru University   SEMINAR SERIES   ASEEMA SINHA  Professor, the Wagener Chair of South Asian Politics, Claremont McKenna College, USA   On   Globalizing India: How Global Rules and Markets Are Shaping India’s New Political Economy   Friday, 18 August 2017 3.00 PM,  Conference Room, CSLG, JNU   India’s recent economic transformation has fascinated scholars, global leaders, and interested observers alike. In 1990, India was a closed economy and a hesitant and isolated economic power. By 2016, India has rapidly risen on the global economic stage; foreign trade now drives more than half of the economy and Indian multinationals pursue global alliances. Focusing on second-generation reforms of the late 1990s, Aseema Sinha explores what facilitated global integration in a self-reliant country predisposed to nationalist ideas. The author argues that globalization has affected trade policy as well as India’s trade capacities and private sector reform. India should no longer be viewed solely through a national lens; globalization is closely linked to the ambitions of a rising India. The study uses fieldwork undertaken in Geneva, New Delhi, Ahmedabad, Mumbai, and Washington, DC, interviews with business and trade officials, alongside a close analysis of the textile and pharmaceutical industries and a wide range of documentary and firm-level evidence to let diverse actors speak in their own voices. This book speaks to the Comparative Politics literature, International Relations literature and Studies of India directly.  It examines how the World Trade Organization affected and changed Indian actor’s preferences about globalization.  It deploys an interdependence approach to an analysis of India, while also building a dynamic framework that examines how domestic actors shape and re-shape global institutions and markets. About the Speaker: Dr. Aseema Sinha is a Professor, the Wagener Chair of South Asian Politics, and George R. Roberts Fellow at Claremont McKenna College, USA.  She is a Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Fellow at IDSA, New Delhi (2016-2017).  She is also affiliated with the Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, JNU during the summer of 2017.  Her book, The Regional Roots of Developmental Politics in India: A Divided Leviathan (Indiana University Press, 2005) has received Joseph Elder Book Prize in the Indian Social Sciences.  Her latest book is Globalizing India: How Global Markets and Rules are Shaping India's Rise to Power (Cambridge University Press, 2016).   <a></a>    PLEASE JOIN US FOR TEA AFTER THE SEMINAR ALL ARE WELCOME