Name of the Game is Interdependence: A Comment

Bharat Wariavwalla’s ‘Name of the Game is Interdependence’ is a thoughtful and elegantly written essay that has insights for both the theoretically inclined academic as well as the policy wonk. The essay can almost neatly be divided into three parts. The first part focuses on the constraints that are imposed on contemporary great power relations (especially between China and the United States) because of multiple levels of interdependence. In the second part, Wariavwalla focuses on the rise of China and the possible limitations that interdependence will impose on Beijing’s external behaviour. Finally, there is a brief ‘lesson’ for India. Let me address the main arguments raised in the three parts, albeit briefly.