
How does India deal with its friends and rivals, and see its role in the world? On Global India, host Tanvi Madan and guests unpack India’s foreign policy and its international impact for experts and new learners alike.
Tanvi Madan is a senior fellow in the Center for Asia Policy Studies in the Foreign Policy program at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. She is also the host of the Global India podcast. Madan’s work explores India’s role in the world and its foreign policy, focusing in particular on India’s relations with China and the United States. She also researches the U.S. and India’s approaches in the Indo-Pacific, as well as the development of interest-based coalitions, especially the Australia-India-Japan-U.S. Quad.
Madan is the author of the book “Fateful Triangle: How China Shaped US-India Relations during the Cold War” (Brookings Institution Press, 2020). Her ongoing work includes a book project on the recent past, present, and future of the China-India-US triangle, and a monograph on India’s foreign policy diversification strategy.
Madan is a member of the editorial board of Asia Policy and a contributing editor at War on the Rocks.
Previously, she was a Harrington doctoral fellow and teaching assistant at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. In the past, Madan has also been a research analyst at Brookings, and worked in the information technology industry in India.
Madan has authored a number of publications on India’s foreign policy and been cited by media outlets such as the Associated Press, The Economist, Financial Times, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post. Madan has also appeared on a number of news shows including on the BBC, Bloomberg, CBS, Channel NewsAsia, CNBC, Fox News, India Today TV, NDTV, NPR, and PBS.
In addition to a doctorate in public policy from the University of Texas at Austin, she has a master’s degree in international relations from Yale University and a bachelor’s degree with honors in history from Lady Shri Ram College, New Delhi, India.
How does India deal with its friends and rivals, and see its role in the world? On Global India, host Tanvi Madan and guests unpack India’s foreign policy and its international impact for experts and new learners alike.
Tanvi Madan joined the German Marshall Fund’s “China Global” podcast to unpack the status and trajectory of India-China relations.
Tanvi Madan joined Institut français des relations internationales to discuss the future of alliances and security partnerships in the Indo-Pacific post-U.S. election.
Tanvi Madan joined Carnegie’s Milan Vaishnav and AEI’s Sadanand Dhume to discuss the U.S. election results, and their implications for Indian Americans, for India, and for U.S.-India...
Tanvi Madan joined the Indian Express to examine President-elect Donald Trump’s win and its impact on U.S.-India-China relations.
On moneycontrol’s “Political Economy” podcast, Tanvi Madan discusses why the trajectory of the India-China relationship depends on the next U.S. president.
India’s approach toward China is now not even the Reaganesque ‘Trust, but verify.’ It’s ‘Don’t trust, verify.
China’s Covid-era actions and the border crisis have been an inflection point in how Delhi saw economic ties with China…The goal hasn’t been decoupling but de-risking, with the idea..."
Tanvi Madan joins the Grand Tamasha podcast to break down the 2024 Indian general election and its aftermath.
Some of it is India’s own technological goals, and a recognition that Taiwan is one of the largest and most advanced economies in the world…It fits India’s search for like-minded..."
In a country as diverse as India, that reliability and attractiveness [economic performance and democracy] will inevitably be affected by the level of inclusion, social cohesion and..."