Global Swing States: India and the International Order Tuesday, September 17, 2013, 5:00 – 06:00 p.m. WWF Auditorium, 172 – B, Lodhi Estate, New Delhi The international order that has helped ensure peace and prosperity for much of the past six decades confronts numerous challenges today: the rise of China, with its outsized maritime claims; stagnating multilateral trade talks; a weakened global financial architecture; fiscal and political pressures in the U.S. and Europe; and the retrenchment of democracy in many parts of the world. How might India, with its large and growing economy, its strategic location, and its commitment to democratic institutions, influence the future international order?  Aspen Institute India and German Marshall Fund of the United States(GMF) invite you to a discussion of, “Global Swing States”, a report co-authored by Dr. Daniel Kliman, Senior Advisor of the German Marshall Fund of the United States and  Mr. Richard Fontaine of the Center for a New American Security.  The report focuses on how India - along with Brazil, Indonesia, and Turkey - will decisively influence the trajectory of the current international order. Dr. Kliman will discuss how India’s economic growth and longstanding democratic institutions make it a quintessential global swing state and what this means for the future of U.S.-India relations Ambassador Kanwal Sibal, Former Foreign Secretary of India, would present the Indian perspective on the report. Mr. Daniel Twining, Senior Fellow for Asia, German Marshall Fund of the United States will moderate the session. Participation is restricted and will be by prior registration only.

WHEN Tuesday, September 17, 2013 5:00 PM  - 6:00 PM     Registration : 4:30 pmWHEREWWF Auditorium, 172-B, Lodhi EstateNew Delhi – 110003

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Dr. Daniel Kliman is a Senior Advisor with the Asia Program at the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF). He leads the Global Swing States Project, which focuses on how four rising democratic powers -- Brazil, India, Indonesia, and Turkey -- might bolster the prevailing international order. He also leads the Young Strategists Forum, which aims to develop a new generation of strategic thinkers in the United States, Europe, and like-minded nations. Before joining GMF, Kliman was a visiting fellow at the Center for a New American Security. He has served as a Japan Policy Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and an Adjunct Research Associate with the Institute for Defense Analyses. Kliman graduated from Stanford University and received his Ph.D. in politics from Princeton University.   Ambassador Kanwal Sibal was India’s Foreign Secretary (2002-2003), Ambassador to Turkey (1989 to 1992), DCM in Washington with rank of Ambassador( 1992-1995), Ambassador to Egypt (1995-1998), Ambassador to France(1998-2002), Ambassador to Russia( 2004-2007) and member of the National Security Advisory Board (2008-2010).   Mr. Daniel Twining is Senior Fellow for Asia at the German Marshall Fund of the United States, where he leads a 15-member team working on the rise of Asia and its implications for the West.  He is also a consultant to the U.S. government on global macro trends, teaches a graduate course on South Asia at Georgetown University, and teaches a strategic seminar to senior U.S. military officers preparing to deploy to Afghanistan.  He previously served as a Member of the Secretary of State’s Policy Planning Staff, where he was responsible for South Asia and regional issues in East Asia; as the Foreign Policy Advisor to Senator John McCain, for whom he handled foreign and defense policy in the United States Senate; and as a staff member of the U.S. Trade Representative.  Dr. Twining has also served as senior policy advisor and foreign policy spokesman for several presidential campaigns.  He holds a doctorate in International Relations from Oxford University, where he was the Fulbright/Oxford Scholar for three years.