India and the European Union bear a particular responsibility: as international relations change, not least because of the global COVID-19 pandemic, the two largest democracies in the world have the unique potential to jointly demonstrate that trusting cooperation and mutual understanding are both indispensable and fruitful—all the more so in the context of increasing national egoism and disregard for the fundamental principles of multilateralism.
This realisation is not new. Believing in the necessity and mutual benefit of close cooperation, India and the EU struck a strategic partnership in 2004. But resounding success in forging closer bilateral ties and promoting an inclusive, rules-based global order has proved elusive. Since 2016, however, the EU’s Global Strategy has offered new opportunities for a restart of European foreign policy, envisaging new partnerships and recalibrating existing ones. On India’s part, too, changing stances have presented new openings—withNew Delhi criticising protectionism and calling for a strengthening of multilateralism.
This timely book scrutinises the status quo and the future potential of revitalised EU-India relations. By exploring and analysing conceptual approaches to and key dimensions of the strategic partnership, including trade, climate policy and development cooperation, it evaluates the prospects for future cooperation. Lastly, it offers policy recommendations for advancing the partnership between India and the EU.
Table of Contents:
Part I: Introduction.- Chapter 1. India and the European Union – A Growing Responsibility to Cooperate in a Changing World (Gisela Müller-Brandeck-Bocquet).- Chapter 2. Europe’s Strategic Autonomy and the Partnership Approach. An Essay (Giovanni Grevi).- Part II: Conceptual Approaches to EU-India Relations.- Chapter 3. Norm Contestation in EU Strategic Partnerships: The Cases of Civil Society Involvement and Climate Justice in EU-India Relations (Timo Lowinger).- Chapter 4. What Strategies can do for Strategic Partnerships: Lessons from the EU’s Strategy on India (Henrik Chetan Aspengren).- Chapter 5. Putting the Partnership DNA to the Test. Partnerships in the EU Global Strategy and the Consequences for India (Manuel Pietzko).- Part III: Dimensions of the Strategic Partnership.- Chapter 6. A Partnership between Two Large Elephants? Opportunities and Challenges in India-EU Relations (Pascaline Winand).- Chapter 7. The European Union-India Strategic Partnership: An Examination of theEconomic Aspects (Sangeeta Khorana).- Chapter 8. Determinants and Impediments of the EU-India Bilateral Trade and Investment Agreement: The Proof of this Old Pudding is in the Eating (Nicolas Köhler-Suzuki).- Chapter 9. Low Carbon Development: An Idea whose Time has Come - Unlocking Climate Cooperation Between India and the EU (Kirsten Jörgensen).- Chapter 10. India’s Climate Diplomacy towards the EU: From Copenhagen to Paris and Beyond (Dhanasree Jayaram).- Chapter 11. India and the EU’s Approach to Development Cooperation: Talking the Talk or Walking the Walk? (Siddharth Tripathi).- Part IV: Future Cooperation and Global Potentials.- Chapter 12. From Destroyer to Preserver? The Evolution of India’s Position towards the Liberal International Order and its Significance for the EU-India Strategic Partnership (Patryk Kugiel).- Chapter 13. Multilateralism and Changing Global Order: Prospects for India-EU Cooperation (Manasi Singh).- Chapter 14. Between Competition and Cooperation: The EUGlobal Strategy as Means to Reinvigorate EU-Indian Cooperation? (Neil Winn).- Part V: Policy Recommendations: How to Move Forward?.- Chapter 15. Global Trends to 2030: European Perspective of Challenges and Choices for the EU-India Strategic Partnership (Stefania Benaglia).- Chapter 16. Perception of the EU in India: A ‘Europe House’ is missing in European Public Diplomacy (Patryk Kugiel).- Chapter 17. “The EU Should…!”; “India Needs…!”: Parapublic Underpinnings to Realise Global IR in Policy Analysis of EU-India Relations (Timo Lowinger).- Chapter 18. India and the European Union – A Partnership for Joining Forces on the Global Scene. Concluding Remarks and Outlook (Ummu Salma Bava).
About the Author :
Philipp Gieg is a postdoctoral researcher and member of faculty at the Jean Monnet Chair of European Studies and International Relations, Institute of Political Science and Sociology, University of Würzburg, Germany. He has recently completed his Ph.D. on India's Africa policy.
Timo Lowinger is a member of faculty and researcher at the Jean Monnet Chair of European Studies and International Relations, Institute of Political Science and Sociology, University of Würzburg, Germany. He is also the coordinator of the DAAD project "Foundations of the Indo-European Strategic Partnership."
Manuel Pietzko is a member of faculty and researcher at the Jean Monnet Chair of European Studies and International Relations, Institute of Political Science and Sociology, University of Würzburg, Germany.
Anja Zürn is a member of faculty and researcher at the Jean Monnet Chair of European Studies and International Relations, Institute of Political Science and Sociology, University of Würzburg, Germany.
Ummu Salma Bava is Chairperson and Jean Monnet Chair, Centre for European Studies, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. She is a member of the Academic Advisory Board, German Institute of Global and Area Studies, Hamburg, and was member of the Research Advisory Council of Germany's leading think tank Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP).
Gisela Müller-Brandeck-Bocquet holds the professorship of European Studies and International Relations at the Institute for Political Science and Sociology at the University of Würzburg, Germany. The European Commission has also awarded her a Jean Monnet Chair for excellent research and teaching activities. She is the convenor of the DAAD project "Foundations of the Indo-European Strategic Partnership."
