India Needs To Engage More With Immediate Neighbourhood: Shivshankar Menon

NEW DELHI: As the centre of gravity of geopolitics and the world economy shifts towards Asia where the biggest beneficiaries of globalization are housed, what should India’s approach be? More engagement, especially in the immediate and extended neighbourhood, says Shivshankar Menon, who has been India’s Foreign Secretary and National Security Adviser. We must use the level of affinity that we have in the sub-continent, he told StratNews Global Editor-in-Chief Nitin A. Gokhale on ‘Books Corner’. Talking about his new book ‘India and Asian Geopolitics: The Past, Present’, Menon said India needs to open up to the sub-continent and make itself an indispensable partner.