Between Trade, Technology, Security and China
This special issue is ideated as an extension of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for Promotional Cooperation between Organisation for Research on China and Asia (ORCA) and the Women’s Indian Chamber of Commerce & Industry’s (WICCI) India-EU Business Council, signed on August 22, 2022. The goal of the issue is to bring to the forefront female expertise leading the continental connect between Asia and Europe by building strong India-European Union (EU) ties across sectors. By focusing on the theme of trade, technology, security and China, the ORCA-WICCI Special Issue seeks to provide analyses, assessment and recommendations that can chart the next few years of the India-EU Strategic Partnership.
An Organisation for Research on China and Asia (ORCA) co-publication with Women’s Indian Chamber of Commerce & Industry’s (WICCI) India-EU Business Council .
I would like to thank Ms. Ada Dyndo for the dedication and openness with which she has approached this publication. By bringing in scholars from Europe to contribute to the Issue, Ada has been constant in her efforts to ensure a quality output. Her leadership of WICCI has paved the way for female leadership to be invited to rooms they rightly deserve to be in; we hope this Issue will only add to her long-term goal of ensuring feminist dialogue gets its due diligence in otherwise sexist sectors.
I would like to thank Ms. Ahana Roy, Research Associate at ORCA, for her brilliant handling of the publication processes; from outreach to the scholars to the last-leg pre-release, her contribution has been incomparable. I would also like to thank other members of Team ORCA –Mr. Rahul Karan Reddy, Mr. Ratish Mehta and Mr. Omkar Bhole — for their research assistantship vis-à-vis the in-house editing process.
Lastly, I would like to thank all the contributors of this Special Issue for taking out the time from their extremely hectic schedules to lend their expertise on debates covered. Their role in the India-EU partnership is crucial as leaders shaping ground-level up discourse and exchanges ranging across academic, technological, economic and people-people ties. I look forward to seeing what each of these brilliant women do next!
Best,Eerishika PankajEditor
A. Acknowledgements …………………….. Pg.1
B. Abbreviations ………………… Pg. 2
C. List of Contributors ………….. Pg. 6
D. Introduction
E. Part 1: Assessing Geopolitical Convergences
F. Part 2: Navigating Economic and Technology Paradigms
G. Part 3: ‘People-to-People’ Connect of the Strategic Partnership
H. Summing Up
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Eerishika Pankaj is the Director of New Delhi based think-tank, the Organisation for Research on China and Asia (ORCA), which focuses on decoding domestic Chinese politics and its impact on Beijing’s foreign policymaking. She is also an Editorial and Research Assistant to the Series Editor for Routledge Series on Think Asia; a Young Leader in the 2020 cohort of the Pacific Forum’s Young Leaders Program; a Commissioning Editor with E-International Relations for their Political Economy section; a Member of the Indo-Pacific Circle and a Council Member of the WICCI’s India-EU Business Council. Primarily a China and East Asia scholar, her research focuses on Chinese elite/party politics, the India-China border, water and power politics in the Himalayas, Tibet, the Indo-Pacific and India’s bilateral ties with Europe and Asia. In 2023, she was selected as an Emerging Quad Think Tank Leader, an initiative of the U.S. State Department’s Leaders Lead on Demand program. She co-edited the ORCAxISDP Special Issue "The Dalai Lama's Succession: Strategic Realities of the Tibet Question" and edited the ORCAxWICCI Special Issue "Building the Future of EU-India Strategic Partnership: Between Trade, Technology, Security and China." She can be reached on eerishikap@gmail.com
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