Wednesday, April 6, 2016

Carnegie Competes with Brookings on Foreign Soil


Today (April 6) the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (CEIP) launched Carnegie India in New Delhi.  It is Carnegie's sixth international center after Beijing, Beirut, Brussels, Moscow, and Washington, DC.  The official launch of Carnegie India has been anticipated for months, and comes as the think tank competes head-to-head with the Brookings Institution for think tank influence in the world's second most populated country.

Here press release on the launch, which was welcomed by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.  Following is an excerpt from that release:
Carnegie India's research and programmatic focus will include the political economy of reform in India, foreign and security policy, and the role of innovation and technology in India's internal transformation and international relations.
The center’s founding director, C. Raja Mohan, has been a nonresident senior associate at Carnegie since 2012. He has also served as a distinguished fellow at the Observer Research Foundation in New Delhi, a visiting research professor at the Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore, and a member of India’s National Security Advisory Board.
The center’s creation has been supported by Carnegie India’s Founders Committee, a group of Indian and international donors co-chaired by former cabinet secretary and Indian ambassador to the United States, Naresh Chandra, and former United States ambassador to India, Frank Wisner. 

Brookings announced the opening of its New Delhi office in 2013, giving it a significant head start in India, a country which has 280 think tanks.  Only the United States, China, and United Kingdom have more think tanks.
Carnegie India’s research and programmatic focus will include the political economy of reform in India, foreign and security policy, and the role of innovation and technology in India’s internal transformation and international relations. Led and staffed by Indian experts, it will build on decades of scholarship on India and South Asia across Carnegie’s programs, while placing special emphasis on developing a cadre of young, up-and-coming Indian scholars.

Read more at: http://carnegieindia.org/2016/04/05/launch-of-carnegie-india/iwns
Carnegie India’s research and programmatic focus will include the political economy of reform in India, foreign and security policy, and the role of innovation and technology in India’s internal transformation and international relations. Led and staffed by Indian experts, it will build on decades of scholarship on India and South Asia across Carnegie’s programs, while placing special emphasis on developing a cadre of young, up-and-coming Indian scholars.

Read more at: http://carnegieindia.org/2016/04/05/launch-of-carnegie-india/iwns
Carnegie India’s research and programmatic focus will include the political economy of reform in India, foreign and security policy, and the role of innovation and technology in India’s internal transformation and international relations. Led and staffed by Indian experts, it will build on decades of scholarship on India and South Asia across Carnegie’s programs, while placing special emphasis on developing a cadre of young, up-and-coming Indian scholars.

Read more at: http://carnegieindia.org/2016/04/05/launch-of-carnegie-india/iwns
Carnegie India’s research and programmatic focus will include the political economy of reform in India, foreign and security policy, and the role of innovation and technology in India’s internal transformation and international relations. Led and staffed by Indian experts, it will build on decades of scholarship on India and South Asia across Carnegie’s programs, while placing special emphasis on developing a cadre of young, up-and-coming Indian scholars.

Read more at: http://carnegieindia.org/2016/04/05/launch-of-carnegie-india/iwns