The end of superpowers

Call India and other rising geopolitcal stars what you will. Juggernauts. Frenemies. But don't call them superpowers.

Superpower, Luce said, is a 20th century term, and a reflection of the West's historically over-simplified with-us-or-against-us thinking.

Countries can no longer be neatly divided into permanent camps, Luce said. India will be with you in areas it make sense for it to be and against you or indifferent when that makes sense, he said.

"India's going to be a very prickly, difficult, semi-ally with the United States," he said.

— SCE
— photo by Sean H. Smith