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On the edge of the big league | The Indian Express

Written by Janmejaya Sinha |Updated: July 5, 2019 12:00:43 am

The writer is chairman, Asia Pacific, Boston Consulting Group. Views are personal.

On the edge of the big league

Geopolitical leverage is no more limited to a few countries. India too can project its soft power, take smart, fast decisions.

India, India Geopolitical power, india foreign policy, Soviet Union, Indian economy, Indian US partnership, Indian express — With soft power, India is doing better. We are advancing with our music, food and Bollywood and are going beyond West Asia into the affluent Indian diaspora in the US and UK.

Till the Soviet Union collapsed in 1989, it was a simpler world. There were two superpowers. Militarily, it was clear that no country could challenge either of them and the superpowers were very wary of each other. Both the countries competed ceaselessly in space and their nuclear might was unassailable. Economically, the US’s strength was on display but till the early Eighties, the economic power of Soviet Union was largely assumed, till it imploded. The US had much greater soft power with Hollywood movies, sports dominance and terrific universities that accepted the best from other countries; the Soviet Union lagged in soft power other than in the Olympic medals tally.