Conclave - 29 November 2021

C O N C L A V E

POSITIONING

INDIA IN THE NEW

WORLD ORDER Monday, 29th November 2021 5:30 pm to 8:15 pm HOTEL LEELA PALACE, CHENNAI

A new leadership in Germany raises questions about the future of what is acknowledged as 'Merkelism' in

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domestic and international affairs -- like Reganomics and Thatcherism in the US and the UK respectively before it. The change-over also coincided with the emergence of AUKUS, over which France, a EU power alongside Germany, had a diplomatic spat with USA and Australia as much for political and strategic reasons as commercial. Ahead of both, we have had the EU coming up with an Indian Ocean Doctrine of its own, and Germany announcing its forays into these parts, separately.

What is more apparent is the studied European silence viz-a viz political and strategic developments in the Indo-Pacific where China's determination to dominate the narrative is becoming both visible and provocative by the day.

What does it mean for the world, starting with the immediate Indian Ocean waters and nations including India, as this is where the geo-centre of future action is predicted to be?

Event Partners

4:30 PM

Registration & Tea

5:30 PM

Welcome Address

Mr C V Subba Rao

EMMARGORP

President, Madras Management Association & Managing Director, Sanmar Shipping Ltd

5:35 PM

Opening Remarks

Mr Pankaj Madan Deputy Head-India Office & Head Programmes Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung

5:40 PM

Introductory Remarks

Mr Peter Rimmele Resident Representative to India, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung

5:50 PM

Keynote Address

Mr M K Narayanan Former Governor of West Bengal Former National Security Advisor of India (NSA)

6:20 PM

“Re-positioning India and China in Asia” Special Session:

Moderator:

Dr Stanly Johny

International Affairs Editor, The Hindu

Prof Dr Heribert Dieter Senior Fellow German Institute for International and Security Affairs

Dr Gudrun Wacker

EMMARGORP

Senior Fellow, Asia Division German Institute for International and Security Affairs

Prof Dr Carlo Masala Professor at the Universität at Bundeswehr München

Amb P S Raghavan Former Chairman, National Security Advisory Board Former Indian Ambassador to Russia

7:50 PM

Q&A

8:05 PM

Closing Remarks

Mr N Sathiya Moorthy Distinguished Fellow & Head (Chennai Initiative), ORF

8:10 PM

Vote of Thanks

Gp Capt R Vijayakumar (Retd), VSM Executive Director, MMA

8:15 PM

Cocktail & Dinner

Mayankote Kelath Narayanan is an Indian diplomat and former IPS officer.

M. K. Narayanan joined the Indian Police Service in 1955 and passed out as the best all-round officer of his batch. After a brief stint as Sub-Divisional Police Officer in the erstwhile State of Madras, he went on deputation to the Intelligence Bureau in February 1959. The rest of his service career was spent under the Government of India, mainly in the Intelligence Bureau, in which he dealt with a whole range of issues concerning internal and national security.

He headed the Intelligence Bureau (IB) from 1987 to 1990, before heading the Joint Intelligence Committee for a year.

He was National Security Adviser of India from 2005 to 2010. Subsequently he served as Governor of West Bengal from 2010 to 2014.

The Government of India awarded him the civilian honour of Padma Shri in 1992.

Mr M K Narayanan Former Governor of West Bengal Former National Security Advisor of India (NSA)

Prof. Dr. Heribert Dieter is Senior Fellow at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs, Visiting Professor of International Political Economy, Zeppelin University, Lake Constance (since 2013) and Adjunct Professor at the University of Potsdam (since 2017). He studied Political Science and Economics at the Free University of Berlin. After his position as a Senior Fellow at the University of Duisburg researching global economy and regional integration he joined the Central European University, Budapest as a visiting Professor in 2004. From 2005 to 2010 he worked as a Coordinator, a Member and Principal Writer of the „Warwick Commission on the Future of the Multilateral Trading System “and a Member and Co-Director of the “Warwick Commission on International Financial Reform” at the University of Warwick. During that time, he also was a visiting Researcher and Professor at the University of Sydney and submitted his habilitation in political science. Besides his current positions he has been Professor and Chair of International Relations at Ruhr University Bochum and Visiting Professor at the Australian National University, Canberra; Murdoch University, Perth. His current research focused on the future of globalization, the consequences of rise of China for the world, Bilateralism and plurilateralism in trade governance and Germany’s position in the

Prof Dr Heribert Dieter Senior Fellow, German Institute for International and Security Affairs

21th century’s global economy.

Dr. Gudrun Wacker is at present Senior Fellow in the Asia Division at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, SWP) in Berlin, a think tank providing political advice to the German government and parliament. Her research focuses on Chinese foreign and security policy, especially EU-China relations, China and the Asia-Pacific region, security cooperation in the Asia-Pacific and the Indo-Pacific. She is currently an EU delegate to the Experts and Eminent Persons Group of the ASEAN Regional Forum.

Dr Gudrun Wacker Senior Fellow, Asia Division, German Institute for International and Security Affairs Indian Diplomats / strategic thought Leader

Prof. Dr. Carlo Masala is Professor at the Universität der Bundeswehr München since June 2007. He studied Political Science, German and Romanic Philology at Universities of Cologne and Bonn. From 1992 to 1998, Professor Masala was a research associate at the Department of Political Science at the University of Cologne, where he received a doctorates degree, writing a dissertation about the German-Italian relations between 1963 and 1969. 1998 he was appointed to Akademischer Rat for life at the Department of Political Science at University of Cologne. In December 2002, he was granted venia legendi in Political Science. After a substitute professorship in summer semester 2002 at Geschwister-Scholl-Department at Ludwig Maximilian University Munich, he changed to NATO Defence College in the beginning of 2004, where he acted as Research Advisor and, from 2006 on, as Deputy Director of the research department. Visiting professorships and research stays led him to the USA (Ann Arbor, Chicago, Washington), to Great Britain (Shrivenham), Slovakia (Matja Belt Universiy), Italy (Rome and Florence) as well as the Eastern Mediterranean University of Cyprus. Today his main research focuses on Theories of International Politics,Security Policy, Transatlantic Relations and Developments in the Mediterranean.

Prof Dr Carlo Masala Professor at the Universität at Bundeswehr München

P.S. Raghavan is Convenor of India’s National Security Advisory Board, an independent advisory body on security and strategic issues. He is the former Indian Ambassador to Russia, Ireland and Czech Republic.

Amb P S Raghavan Former Chairman National Security Advisory Board Former Indian Ambassador to Russia

Dr. Stanly Johny is the International Affairs Editor of The Hindu. In this capacity, he runs the international news pages of the newspaper and writes opinions and editorials on geopolitics, Middle East and Indian foreign policy, besides doing special reports. He earned a PhD in international studies from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He has reported for The Hindu group from Brussels, Luxembourg City, Moscow, Singapore, Amman, Ramallah and Tel Aviv. He has written research papers as well as commentaries for various publications, including Economic and Political Weekly, The Hindu, The Hindu Business Line, Frontline and Business Standard. Dr. Johny is also an adjunct faculty member at the Asian College of Journalism, Chennai. His first book, Baghdadi’s World is forthcoming from Penguin Random House.

Dr Stanly Johny

International Affairs Editor The Hindu

Peter Max Rimmele is currently the Resident Representative of Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung Office, India. He has a First Law Degree from Freiburg University, as well as a Second Law Degree from the Ministry of Justice Baden Württemberg, Germany and a M.A. in Geography.

After working as a jurist, judge and lecturer, he took public office as Ministerialrat, Head of Division at the State Ministry of the Interior in Saxony, Germany, from November 1991 on until 2000. There he first served in the Police and Security and later in the Local Government Department. On behalf of the German Foreign Ministry he served in East Timor as Registrar General, Head of Civil Registry and Notary Services (UNTAET), and became later the principal Advisor for Governance Reform for GIZ (German International Cooperation) to the Ministry of Administrative Reform and the Anti-Corruption-Commission of the Republic of Indonesia, where he served for 7 years. He then moved to Rwanda, also as Principal Advisor Good Governance/Justice Program. Earlier he was Resident Representative Lebanon, Director of Rule of Law Program Middle East North Africa, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung.

Mr Peter Rimmele Resident Representative to India, KonradAdenauer-Stiftung

Mr. Pankaj Madan is Advisor and Team Leader- Programmes at the New Delhi Office of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation. He has been with the Foundation for 22 years in various capacities and is responsible for conceptualization of development and dialogue programmes, research and editing, budgetary evaluations and monitoring and liaising with Ministries at state and centre levels both, Members of Parliament and State Legislatures, Government Departments, Political Parties, Media and Apex bodies. Prior to that, he was with Indo-German Export Promotion (IGEP) project of the GIZ.

Mr Pankaj Madan Deputy Head-India Office & Head Programmes Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung

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