This event launched the new Chatham House research paper 'How India’s democracy shapes its global role and relations with the West', available here:

https://www.chathamhouse.org/2024/04/...

The West has long held up India’s democracy as one of the pillars of its engagement with the country. India has also touted its status as the world’s largest democracy as part of its claim to global leadership. While this may seem rhetorical, it alludes to the fact that the West’s relations with India are seen to be underpinned by not just shared interests, but also shared values.

However, Indian foreign policy often appears out of sync with Western democracies and New Delhi rarely employs democracy promotion as an explicit tool of its foreign policy.

At this webinar experts discuss:

What are the areas of convergence between India and the West regarding democracy promotion in the context of India being promoted as a voice of the Global South and a potential bulwark against the rise of China?
Do India’s efforts to promote the ‘democratisation of technology’ through Digital Public Infrastructure offer an area of potential convergence?
What does the illiberal turn in India’s democracy and its more muscular deployment of Hindutva (Hindu nationalism) mean for the country’s foreign policy?