Dhruva Jaishankar
Executive Director
Dhruva Jaishankar
HIGHLIGHTS
2016-2019: Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies at Brookings India in New Delhi and the Brookings Institution in Washington DC.
2012-2016: Transatlantic Fellow, German Marshall Fund of the United States, Washington DC
Dhruva Jaishankar is Executive Director of ORF America, which he helped establish in 2020. He is also a Non-Resident Fellow with the Lowy Institute in Australia and writes a regular column for the Hindustan Times. His research — on India’s relations with the United States, Japan, Australia, Southeast Asia, and Europe; defense and security policy; and globalization, democracy, and technology — has been published in several books, policy reports, and publications including Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, and Survival.
From 2016 to 2019, Jaishankar was a Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies at Brookings India in New Delhi and the Brookings Institution in Washington DC. From 2012 to 2016, he was a Transatlantic Fellow with the German Marshall Fund (GMF) in Washington DC, where he managed the India Trilateral Forum, a regular policy dialogue involving participants from India, Europe, and the United States. From 2009 to 2012, he was program officer with the Asia Program at GMF. Before that, he worked as a research assistant at the Brookings Institution in Washington and as a news writer and reporter for CNN-IBN television in New Delhi.
In 2015-2016, Jaishankar was a Visiting Fellow with the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. He has also been a David Rockefeller Fellow with the Trilateral Commission, an IISS-SAIS Merrill Center Young Strategist, and a Brent Scowcroft Award Fellow with the Aspen Strategy Group. He holds a B.A. in history and classics from Macalester College, and an M.A. in security studies from Georgetown University.
vishwa shastra out now
Dhruva Jaishankar's book 'Vishwa Shastra: India and the World' was published by Penguin Random House India in December 2024.
History
A brief but comprehensive overview of India's interactions with the world, from ancient times to the present day.
National Strategy
A roadmap for India's present and future international policies, outlining 5 main objectives and 14 priorities.
Bibliography
A resource, listing over 250 books for further exploration.
publications
By Dhruva Jaishankar
Learnings from Delhi’s past should help in shaping the future as India bets big on new critical technologies.
By Dhruva Jaishankar
The EU and India both have apprehensions about China’s economic and manufacturing supremacy threatening employment and businesses at home.
By Dhruva Jaishankar
Trump and Modi announced a wide-ranging agenda to take the bilateral relationship forward. It included efforts that built upon the progress made during the Biden administration, particularly in terms of technology, defense, and regional cooperation.
By Dhruva Jaishankar
Understandably, Germany will be preoccupied in the short term with Europe’s eastern and southern flanks, the transatlantic relationship, and the Middle East, but Berlin has important economic and security interests in the Indo-Pacific.
"Rebalancing Globalization: Perspectives from the Global South" attempts to provide a framework for the next phase of globalization that is rebalanced and sustainable and can address issues that matter to the Global South.
Edited Volume
By Anit Mukherjee, Dhruva Jaishankar, Alan Gelb, Pamla Gopaul, Marta Bengoa, Shayak Sengupta, Aude Darnal, Elizabeth Sidiropoulos, Udaibir Das, Veronica Jijon, and Lorrayne Porciuncula
Editors: Anit Mukherjee and Dhruva Jaishankar
While there is no shortage of analysis and speculation of China’s capabilities and behavior today, it is imperative to keep an eye on longer-term developments and remain open to uncertainties that could shape China’s strategic outlook.
Joint Report
By Shikha Aggarwal, Divyank Chaudhary, Lily McElwee, Aaron Glasserman, Keshav Kelkar, Kento Mashiko, Takuya Matsuda, Helen Mitchell, Philip Rogers, Rena Sasaki, David Saultry, and Neil Thomas
Editors: Dhruva Jaishankar and Greg Brown
By Dhruva Jaishankar
While the direct implications for India might be less than for others, the 2024 U.S. presidential election will undoubtedly have indirect effects on India.
By Dhruva Jaishankar
Why should Indo-Pacific nations pay attention to the U.S. presidential election and what will a change in leadership mean for existing partnerships?
By Dhruva Jaishankar
But the biggest obstacle remains China. China alone among the P-5 has not voiced support for the expansion of permanent UNSC seats but often hides behind others in negotiations.
Background Paper No. 23
By Tisyaketu Sirkar & Dhruva Jaishankar
By Dhruva Jaishankar
At a basic level, India’s large diaspora in the US and a shared sense of democracy continue to contribute to deepening India-US relations.
By Dhruva Jaishankar
There are important differences between Biden and Trump on alliances, climate policy, immigration, tariffs, and democracy.
By Dhruva Jaishankar
ORF America Executive Director Dhruva Jaishankar was interviewed by Adrija Chatterjee of Moneycontrol on the sidelines of the Raisina Dialogue in New Delhi.
By Dhruva Jaishankar
Taiwan’s political status will inevitably be a zero-sum matter in the intensifying global competition between China and the US.
By Dhruva Jaishankar
Nations including the US, Japan and India are preparing for a global economy characterised by gated globalisation, plurilateral or regional blocs, and competing industrial policies
By Dhruva Jaishankar
Prague’s experience with Beijing also exposes the limitations and fragility of China’s global outreach
By Dhruva Jaishankar
Economic, demographic, and commercial factors are driving India’s outreach. Advancing the Global South agenda may prove to be its enduring legacy
By Dhruva Jaishankar
The world is facing enormous change in the decade ahead. And one of the key ones will be that alliances will be defined less by military treaties and more by choices on critical and emerging technologies.
By Dhruva Jaishankar
A shared sense of challenges, deepening people-to-people and commercial links, and the diminishing relevance of prior obstacles such as Pakistan have paved the way for more meaningful India-US relations
By Dhruva Jaishankar
Taken together, this month’s summitry in the Indo-Pacific highlights some major stirrings to the international order.
By Dhruva Jaishankar
While the latent power of the United States remains immense, its ability to translate that into outbound capital or technological partnerships requires cooperation with the private sector.
By Dhruva Jaishankar
The Global South thus represents a strategic opening for India, both to advance its own development objectives and the cause of multilateral institutional reform.
By Dhruva Jaishankar
As the Ukraine war enters its second year, US efforts mark a good return on investment from the point of view of national security. But over the next year, further risks abound.
comments
By Dhruva Jaishankar
This week's visit by Ursula von der Leyen and the senior European Commission leadership to India represents a major opportunity to advance India-EU security, connectivity, mobility, trade, investment, and technology.
By Dhruva Jaishankar
While the details of any such dialogue remain notional, Trump’s comments underscored the necessity of having such a meeting early in his tenure to set the tone for bilateral India-U.S. relations over the next four years.
By Dhruva Jaishankar
It is possible to anticipate both a burgeoning U.S.-India partnership under a second Trump administration and some short, sharp tussles over a handful of important issues.
By Dhruva Jaishankar
With fundamental changes in China's domestic politics, economy, security posture, and strategic position, can India-China relations resume from its pre-2020 ties?
By Dhruva Jaishankar
With recent conflicts in Lebanon, Israel, and Gaza, how do they impact India and its policy in the Middle East?
By Dhruva Jaishankar
The revival of the global economy will stem from multilateral efforts to achieve the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) despite indications pointing to increased economic competition.
By Dhruva Jaishankar
Both the Republican and Democratic National Conventions commenced their programs this month, indicating the few months left for the 2024 U.S. presidential election. But little has been said about the candidates' approach to American foreign policy, especially regarding the future of the United States' relationship with China.
RECent events
media appearances
Dhruva Jaishankar on how a U.S.-India trade deal could help India-Australia trade.
Dhruva Jaishankar on “Vishwa Shastra: India and the World”.
Dhruva Jaishankar on India’s challengues during Trump 2.0.
Book reviews of “Vishwa Shastra: India and the World”.
Dhruva Jaishankar on Latin America’s perspective of the changing global economy and trade.
Dhruva Jaishankar on how AUKUS is is shaping security in the Indo-Pacific at the 2025 Raisina Dialogue with Firstpost Ideas Pod.
Dhruva Jaishankar on diplomacy, strategy, and his career so far.
Dhruva Jaishankar on what Trump's second presidency means for India.
Dhruva Jaishankar joined PBS’s Global Perspectives to discuss the future of U.S.-India relations and India’s role in the world.
Dhruva Jaishankar on Trump's Inauguration and U.S.-India Relations.
Dhruva Jaishankar as a panelist for Indiaspora’s “US Election Analysis Virtual Event”.
Dhruva Jaishankar, as a panelist hosted by the Applied Policy Research Institute of Armenia.
Dhruva Jaishankar on Modi's participation in the recent Quad Leaders' Summit.
Dhruva Jaishankar on Quad's shift from defense.
Dhruva Jaishankar on Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's U.S. trip.
Dhruva Jaishankar on Quad's latest geopolitical concerns.
Dhruva Jaishankar on the Indian diaspora in the United States.
Dr. Anit Mukherjee and Dhruva Jaishankar participate in a discussion on "Infraestrutura Pública Digital e seus impactos nos Objetivos de Desenvolvimento Sustentável" hosted by the National School of Public Administration (Escola Nacional de Administração Pública - ENAP).
Remarks by Dhruva Jaishankar on South-South Climate Finance Cooperation at the inauguration of the Climate Finance Center for the Global South in Belem do Para, Brazil, on July 9, 2024.
Dhruva Jaishankar is interviewed in a DW documentary on NATO and the Global South.
Dhruva Jaishankar quoted in Nikkei Asia and First Post.
Dhruva Jaishankar, as a panelist hosted by the Austrian and Kuwaiti permanent missions to the United Nations.
Dhruva Jaishankar, Quoted by the Japan Times.
Dhruva Jaishankar, as a speaker at the American University.
ORF America’s Raisina Roundtable @Tokyo was covered by ANI and NewX.
Dhruva Jaishankar, Quoted by Newsweek, and interviewed by DD News.
ORF America’s Annual Dinner was mentioned by the Sunday Morning Herald.