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Shivshankar Menon is one of the authors of a recent paper by the Centre for Policy Research, which advocates a rethinking India’s foreign policy and strategic priorities.
Daily Times
May 4, 2021
The Oracle is spying a world whose politics, economics, state dynamics including power composition and societies, will be undergoing significant change. The US National Intelligence Council ‘Global Trends 2040: A More Contested World’ report published back in March draws five distinct world scenarios of what the world will look like in twenty years. These compendiums are shaped by the intersection of different elements, including: demographics, human development, the environment, economics and technology.
Current demographic trends tell us that the collective population is rapidly aging. Developed economies that include Europe, China, South Korea, and Japan are home to aging populations that will significantly impact their economies as the working age population contracts severely. Thus, this would push them to be flexible with immigration which will have its own problems such as, rising inter- and intra- state conflicts. At the same time, the developin