New World Order and New India: The Uncertain Geopolitics

Coronavirus has led to the unfolding of new world order and at the same time, a disintegration of the hitherto new world order with a dream of global integration and global governance as espoused by the then President of the United States (US) George H. W. Bush, after the end of the Cold War. Reeling under the duress of COVID-19, countries all over the world virtually stopped all their business-as-usual interactions inspired by globalization. The rapid pace of movement through international air, water, and land routes gradually came to a sudden and a screeching halt, with a period of few weeks between February and March 2020. This article attempts to understand the various facets of emerging geopolitical realities obligated by COVID-19 while situating the history of a New World Order concept. It situates the unique position that India is in vis-à-vis the global pandemic and its capacity of ensuring a healthy and peaceful world order by abiding by the tenets of “Vashudhaiv Kutumbkam”(the world is one family).