INDIA AND CHINA: TWO EMERGING ACTORS IN THE 21ST CENTURY: PERSPECTIVES AND DEVELOPMENTS IN THEIR STRATEGIC RELATION, ACCORDING TO THE “ASIAN CENTURY” PARADIGM
INDIA AND CHINA: TWO EMERGING ACTORS IN THE 21ST CENTURY: PERSPECTIVES AND DEVELOPMENTS IN THEIR STRATEGIC RELATION, ACCORDING TO THE “ASIAN CENTURY” PARADIGM

Author(s): Mădălina Virginia Antonescu
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, International relations/trade
Published by: Carol I National Defence University Publishing House
Keywords: “Asian Century” paradigm; Asian Community; AGA-AF (America Great Again, America first) paradigm; New American Century; India; China; emergent powers;
Summary/Abstract: The global world, at the beginning of 21st century, is continuously shaped by various state and non-state actors. Among them, emerging global actors, such as the two Asiatic giants, India and China, take important strategic actions, implementing essential trans-continental and trans-oceanic visions that cannot be neglected by academic scholars according to a limited conception regarding our world as “a static, Atlantic type of world,non-challenged and non-submitted to transformations”. Even the Atlantic powers are beginning to think and to implement different strategic projects regarding an increased presence in the “Asia-Pacific and Indian Ocean” expanded area. The paper is focused on two emergent actors, as India and China, and on their perceptions regarding the 21st century dynamic world, according to the “Asian Century” concept. We’ll try to identify some of the common strategic conceptual roots, and original elements that each actor adopted within its strategic vision regarding the 21st century as “Asian Century” paradigm.

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