India Pivot in a Time of Great Global Churn

Fragile Globalisation, Battle for Technological Supremacy, Geopolitics of Energy, and Collapsing Global Governance Are the Key Geopolitical Trends Reshaping Our World That India Must Navigate

- Amitabh Kant

The Second Trump Administration is doubling down on tariffs and Make America Great Again policies. It is also redefining and rewriting alliances of the past, with reverberations being felt by their allies in Europe and Asia. These moves aim to strengthen the US' economy by improving trade balance and reducing public spending. At the same time, the US has withdrawn from the Paris Agreement, the World Health Organization (WHO), and earlier, it had withdrawn from the International Court of Justice (ICJ). These moves are creating a vacuum in the global geopolitical order. This vacuum will not remain for long—it will be filled by competing powers. While the US remains the most powerful actor, we are seeing the rise of a multipolar world once again. Fragmenting globalization, the battle for technological supremacy, the geopolitics of energy, and collapsing global governance are the key geopolitical trends reshaping our world that India must navigate.