Unfolding the New Age of Multilateralism | InterLinked X G20 | In Conversation with Dr Neha Khetrapal

Interviewed by: Ishani Sharma and Shreeya Bhayana This podcast is a part of InterLinked's special series in collaboration with the Centre for G20 Studies. In this episode, the team at Interlinked spoke to Prof Neha Khetrapal about “The New-Age Multilateralism: The Indian Way”. Prof. Neha discussed with us, the different ways in which her training as a psychologist helps understand India’s foreign policy, especially in light of India’s G20 presidency. She spoke about the idea of India’s adoption of a ‘minilateralist’ stance in its foreign policy and the intentions that inform this policy, in place of a failure of the usual multilateral stance adopted by nations when it comes to foreign policy. Our discussion aims to highlight the influence of soft-power tools, alongside the usual hard-power tools like the military, in how they come to impact India’s positioning in the world order. Dr Neha Khetrapal is an Associate Professor at the Jindal Institute of Behavioural Sciences (JIBS), O.P. Jindal Global University (India). She earned her PhD (Linguistics) at Macquarie University (Australia) in 2016. Currently, Dr Khetrapal is engaged in investigating aspects of political memory and how these influence international relations and political diplomacy, as a part of a research portfolio on 'collective memory' that she is developing at JIBS. Image Source: https://indiafoundation.in/articles-and-commentaries/what-g20-can-do-to-get-the-multilateral-institutions-in-shape-indias-key-challenge/