India and the Nordics in a Changing World

The new context of globalisation marked by rapid communication and information has irrevocably changed inter-state relations. Distances are no longer prohibitive and knowledge of states and their societies is not restricted to their immediate neighbourhoods. New contacts are established and old ones intensify.

This volume is a collection of ten papers looking at the small smart achieving states of the Nordic region. India has long established relation with these countries. This collection highlights how the context of globalization has opened up for India and the Nordics new possibilities and opportunities for greater collaboration and learning from each other. Welfare, energy, environment, diversity management are all possible areas of collaboration that can be of mutual benefit.

Bhaswati Sarkar teaches at the Centre for European Studies, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Her research interests are immigration, integration, multiculturalism, minority rights, nation, nationalism, secularism and persistence of religion in Europe in general and Central and Eastern Europe and the Nordics in particular. She has presented and published a number of papers around these themes. Currently she is working on the Visegrad States Assertion: Implications for the European Project.

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