Director:
Senior Fellow, Armando Bravo Martínez
Phone: 212-229-5808 ext. 101
E-mail:martinea@newschool.edu
Web Site: http://www.worldpolicy.org/epowers

  Which countries, if any, will join the ranks of the great powers in the coming decades? The Emerging Powers Program attempts to answer this question by examining the strategic and economic prospects of three regional powers žIndia, Brazil, and South Africa žas they aspire toward a more assertive role on the world stage. To what extent do these countries have the size, the resources and the will to achieve great power status? They are the largest democracies with the biggest economies in their respective regions žSouth America, South Asia and Southern Africa. Each of these countries aspires to play a wider role at the global level. They all have the option of becoming nuclear weapons states, whether or not they exercise it. And though each counts the United States as an important foreign investor and trade partner, they have all asserted a more independent role vis-à-vis the superpower through new linkages and expanded trade relations with other parts of the world.

To address this issue, the program, directed by Senior Fellow Armando Bravo Martínez, has established a network of professionals from the academic, media, financial, business and NGO communities in Brazil, India, South Africa and the United States to explore differences and build consensus on a variety of global policy issues. This network includes three country teams made up of individuals and institutions from around the globe: Dr. Gilson Schwartz, the Center on International Relations, University of São Paulo; Drs. Kanti Bajpai and Varun Sahni, the School of International Affairs, Jawaharlal Nehru University; Dr. Mira Kamdar, Senior Fellow and India Director, World Policy Institute; and Dr. Chis Landsberg at the Center for Policy Studies, University of Witwatersrand.

These experts from Brazil, India and South Africa have made significant contributions to the program over the past three years, hosting in-country workshops, participating in electronic forums, and writing policy papers on important regional and global policy issues. An international advisory committee composed of scholars, business and finance professionals, journalists and policymakers including the Honorable Bowman Cutter, Warburg Pincus; Dr. Joseph Stiglitz, Stanford University; and Marshall Bouton, president of the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations, provides the program with interdisciplinary guidance and support. (Papers may be downloaded at www.worldpolicy.org/epowers. )