Dhruva Jaishankar is Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies at Brookings India in New Delhi and the Brookings Institution in Washington DC. He is also a Non-Resident Fellow with the Lowy Institute in Australia. His research examines India’s role in the international system and the effects of global developments on India’s politics, economics, and society, with a particular focus on India’s relations with the United States, the Indo-Pacific, and Europe.
Jaishankar was previously a Transatlantic Fellow with the German Marshall Fund (GMF) in Washington DC from 2012 until 2016, where he managed the India Trilateral Forum, a regular policy dialogue involving participants from India, Europe, and the United States. From 2009 to 2012, he was programme officer for Asia with GMF. Prior to that, he worked as a research assistant at the Brookings Institution in Washington and as a news writer and reporter for CNN-IBN television in New Delhi. In 2015-2016, he was a Visiting Fellow with the South Asia Programme of the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.
Jaishankar holds a bachelor's degree in history and classics from Macalester College, and a master's degree in security studies from Georgetown University. He has been a David Rockefeller Fellow with the Trilateral Commission, an IISS-SAIS Merrill Center Young Strategist, and a Brent Scowcroft Award Fellow with the Aspen Strategy Group.
His recent publications include:
Book Chapters
o “Indian Strategy in a Non-Strategic Age,” in India Now and in Transition (Niyogi Books, 2017).
o “A Confluence of Two Strategies: The Japan-India Security Partnership in the Indo-Pacific,” in India and Japan: Assessing the Strategic Partnership (Palgrave, 2018).
o “India as an Asian Power,” in Seven Decades of Indian Independence (Penguin, 2018).
Reports
o “Indian Ocean Region: A Pivot for Indian Growth,” Indian Ocean Conference, 2016.
o “India and the United States in the Trump Era: Re-Evaluating Bilateral and Global Relations,” Brookings Institution, 2017.
o “Survey on America’s Role in the Indo-Pacific,” (with G. Flake, S. Jackman, et al.), Asian Research Network, 2017.
o “Uneasy Triangle: India’s Evolving Relations with the United States and China,” Perth U.S.-Asia Centre, 2017.
o “U.S.-India Task Force,” (with N. Rao, R. Verma, et al.), Center for American Progress, 2018.
Dhruva Jaishankar is Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies at Brookings India in New Delhi and the Brookings Institution in Washington DC. He is also a Non-Resident Fellow with the Lowy Institute in Australia. His research examines India’s role in the international system and the effects of global developments on India’s politics, economics, and society, with a particular focus on India’s relations with the United States, the Indo-Pacific, and Europe.
Jaishankar was previously a Transatlantic Fellow with the German Marshall Fund (GMF) in Washington DC from 2012 until 2016, where he managed the India Trilateral Forum, a regular policy dialogue involving participants from India, Europe, and the United States. From 2009 to 2012, he was programme officer for Asia with GMF. Prior to that, he worked as a research assistant at the Brookings Institution in Washington and as a news writer and reporter for CNN-IBN television in New Delhi. In 2015-2016, he was a Visiting Fellow with the South Asia Programme of the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.
Jaishankar holds a bachelor’s degree in history and classics from Macalester College, and a master’s degree in security studies from Georgetown University. He has been a David Rockefeller Fellow with the Trilateral Commission, an IISS-SAIS Merrill Center Young Strategist, and a Brent Scowcroft Award Fellow with the Aspen Strategy Group.
His recent publications include:
Book Chapters
o “Indian Strategy in a Non-Strategic Age,” in India Now and in Transition (Niyogi Books, 2017).
o “A Confluence of Two Strategies: The Japan-India Security Partnership in the Indo-Pacific,” in India and Japan: Assessing the Strategic Partnership (Palgrave, 2018).
o “India as an Asian Power,” in Seven Decades of Indian Independence (Penguin, 2018).
Reports
o “Indian Ocean Region: A Pivot for Indian Growth,” Indian Ocean Conference, 2016.
o “India and the United States in the Trump Era: Re-Evaluating Bilateral and Global Relations,” Brookings Institution, 2017.
o “Survey on America’s Role in the Indo-Pacific,” (with G. Flake, S. Jackman, et al.), Asian Research Network, 2017.
o “Uneasy Triangle: India’s Evolving Relations with the United States and China,” Perth U.S.-Asia Centre, 2017.
o “U.S.-India Task Force,” (with N. Rao, R. Verma, et al.), Center for American Progress, 2018.
[The informal India-China summit in Wuhan] is more like pressing a pause button than a reset...For things to really change, China has to reconceive how to play its role as a major power
For things to really change, China has to reconceive how to play its role as a major power.
India needs financing and so got on board with the [Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank]...New Delhi sees a clear distinction between the AIIB, which is an institution with a board, membership and voting rights, and the Belt and Road Initiative, which is a vision only of the Chinese under which they have placed all kinds of different projects.
