Jeffrey W. Legro is Randolph P. Compton Professor at the University of Virginia. In 2011, he was a Fulbright-Nehru Senior Researcher at the Institute for Defence and Strategic Analyses in New Delhi.
The nature of international politics is changing with respect to two key developments: the relative decline of the United States and the gridlock in major global international institutions like the United Nations and the World Trade Organisation. The emerging strategies of two different countries, the United States and India, suggest that international relations will increasingly take place in other arenas, specifically in regional groupings, bilateral networks and transnational ties.
