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Former Ambassador and Indian National Security Advisor Shivshankar Menon will address how the increasingly tense relations between India and China are producing a “New Asian Geopolitics.” The talk will be moderated by Manjari Mahajan, Co-Director of India China Institute and Associate Professor at Julien J. Studley Graduate Programs in International Affairs, Schools of Public Engagement, The New School. Mary Watson, Executive Dean, Schools of Public Engagement will make introductory remarks. Ambassador Menon has had a distinguished career in government; he was Foreign Secretary of India from 2006-2009, and also served as the Indian Ambassador or High Commissioner to China, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Israel. At present he is Visiting Professor at Ashoka University, India; Chairman, Advisory Board, Institute of Chinese Studies, New Delhi; Distinguished Fellow of the Centre for Social and Economic Progress (formerly Brookings India); Distinguished Visiting Research Fellow at the National University of Singapore; Member, Board of Trustees, International Crisis Group; and a Distinguished Fellow at the Asia Society Policy Institute, New York. Ambassador Menon’s many publications include Choices: Inside the Making of Indian Foreign Policy (Brookings & Penguin Random House, 2016). He has been a Fisher Family Fellow at the Kennedy School, Harvard University, 2015 and a Richard Wilhelm Fellow at MIT in 2015. He was chosen one of the “Top 100 Global Thinkers” by Foreign Policy magazine in 2010. The talk is sponsored by the India China Institute. We thank our co-sponsors, the Julien J. Studley Graduate Programs in International Affairs at The New School, and the New School Global Studies Program. Thursday, October 22 9:30am – 10:30am US EDT/ 7:00pm – 8:00pm New Delhi/ 9:30pm – 10:30pm Beijing