Strategic diffidence

DOMINIQUE MOISI, advisor of the French Institute of International Affairs (IFRI) and visiting professor at Harvard University draws parallels between a strategically diffident New Delhi and Washington of the 1920s to state that India continued to remain ill at ease in the projection of strategic power. In an opinion piece in The Scotsman, "India still lacks practice in power game", he states that India's unease about strategic power, and its resemblance to a gigantic EU reflected its ongoing search for a new international identity and that India lacked both the means and the ambition to be a second China and that was a further reason for the west to engage and invest in India.

With Great Power ....

DOMINIQUE MOISI, advisor of the French Institute of International Affairs (IFRI) and visiting professor at Harvard University asserts that if a G3 ever became a reality, the only serious contender to join U.S. and China was India and not the EU because of what he terms Europe's Lilliputian instincts.
In an article in the Japan Times, "Recognizing confident India as indispensable", he states that the period when India was forgotten by the world and when India could forget the world was past and counsels India to take increasing responsibilities for regional and world security.