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Samir Saran

President of the Observer Research Foundation

Samir Saran is President of the Observer Research Foundation (ORF), India’s premier think tank, headquartered in New Delhi with affiliates in North America and the Middle East. His research focuses on issues of global governance, climate and energy policy, technology policy, and India’s foreign policy. He curates the Raisina Dialogue, India’s annual flagship platform on geopolitics and geo-economics, and is the founder of CyFy, India’s annual conference on cybersecurity and internet governance. Samir has authored four books, edited important journals and publications, and written several academic papers and book chapters. He is featured regularly in Indian and international print and broadcast media. His latest publications include The New World Disorder and The Indian Imperative with Shashi Tharoor and Pax Sinica: Implications for the Indian Dawn.
Subjects:
China, India, Russia, Security, Technology, USA
Updated: August 13, 2021

Agenda

Keeping Up Support to Ukraine – Defining as Long as It Takes?
LMC 2024
China, Technology
China. Vincere Est Vivere: To Conquer Is to Live
LMC 2021

Articles

China, India, Russia, Security, USA
India’s Security Choices in the Choppy Waters of the Indo-Pacific

At the start of the 2020s, India has been confronted with a massive viral spread and a relentless People’s Liberation Army (PLA) on its borders. Last year, even as India was responding to the pandemic that originated in Wuhan, it had to mobilise its forces…

Samir Saran ,  Kalpit A. Mankikar
LMC 2021

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