Second, its economy has grown at an impressive rate throughout the 2000s turning it into a rising Eurasian power.
First, it is a country that is strategically located at the meeting point of Europe and Asia. The changes in the geopolitical meaning of Eurasia have also been very important for Turkey for a number of reasons. Eventually, Eurasia has become a geopolitical symbol signifying a multipolar world order unlike fifteen years ago when Brzezinski wrote his book in a world dominated by the US superpower. Following the global financial crisis of the last few years, countries like China, Russia and India have started to project greater global political and economic influence. The emergence of new centres of power in Eurasia has entailed a re-reading of Zbigniew Brzezinski's book which drew an analogy between the Eurasian supercontinent and a grand chessboard. The path toward a major power role and status needs to be paved with more than good intentions and be accompanied by political will and institutional flexibilities that can transform India’s traditional emphasis on autonomy and self-reliance and new ambitions into real power that is sustainable at the global level and yields crucial benefits for India’s diverse population. Yet, despite powerful pressures and opportunities nudging India toward a greater role in the global system, India must also attend to crucial capacity building to mobilize its potential and aspirations. India’s actions and aspirations on the global stage have changed dramatically toward greater activism and leveraging of its newfound economic strengths. Similar to other ascendant powers such as China and Brazil but unlike smaller powers, India must not only cope with a transformed international system and project the country’s global aspirations, but also ensure that its emergence as a rising power responds to its domestic dilemmas and constraints. In 2009–2010 India faces dramatically different foreign policy challenges than it faced even ten years ago.
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