Professor Pascaline WINAND, Director of Studies at the Natolin (Warsaw) campus of the College of Europe, has just published a co-authored book entitled "The European Union and India: Rhetoric or Meaningful Partnership?" together with Professor Marika VICZIANY, Director of the National Centre for South Asian Studies at Monash University and Ms Poonam DATAR, Political Assistant at the European Parliament.
Published by Edward Elgar Publishing, this multidisciplinary book provides a comprehensive analysis of the EU-India relationship from 1950 to the present day, as a way of assessing whether a meaningful and sustainable relationship is emerging and whether it will play a role in the future of international diplomacy and business. Using both historical insights and contemporary policy analysis, the authors investigate whether the social, economic and political interests of the EU and India are genuinely compatible. Leaders in both regions have been promoting the relationship for many decades, but the authors scrutinize their words to discover whether they are merely rhetorical gestures or reflect genuine complementarities. They also investigate the motivation behind the relationship, and provide an in-depth analysis of the areas of mutual interest and conflict.