Journal will focus on understanding-analyzing four-member group
Washington and New Delhi have strengthened their bilateral partnership through the four-nation member Quad, says Mukesh Aghi, President and CEO of the US-India Strategic Partnership Forum (USISPF) at the launch a journal on the grouping of Australia, India, Japan and the United States.
“Hence with newly launched Quad+, our focus has been to seek contributions in the form of timely, thought-provoking, riveting articles and analyses that highlight issues across the realm of geopolitics, business, trade, tech, climate, and healthcare pertaining to the four partners,” he said announcing the journal on 16 Jan 2023.
‘The Quad+ will be housed under the USISPF banner but will remain editorially independent and non-partisan.”
Quad+ will have a special focus on understanding and analyzing the implications of the Quad, an Indo-Pacific strategic coalition between the United States, India, Australia and Japan.
From its origins as a humanitarian response to the Asian tsunami, the Quad has come to represent a new model of a plurilateral organization. While informal and non-binding, it is now defining the strategic landscape of supply chains and critical technologies across half the world.
While it has no doctrine, it is anchoring the emerging Indo-Pacific strategic environment. Quad+ will seek to monitor and explain the organization’s evolution in the coming years and how it reflects the rise of critical technology in contemporary geopolitics.
In an interview published in the first edition, Dr. S Jaishankar, the Indian Minister of External Affairs, talks about the centrality of technology to world events today.
It also includes four articles by strategic thinkers from the four Quad member-states on the relevance of the organization to their respective countries.
There is also an article by Anirudh Suri, author of the book ‘The Great Tech Game’, on how and why technology has become the defining element of world affairs.
Pramit Pal Chaudhuri, a New Delhi-based journalist of almost 35 years of experience, has been appointed the editor for the Quad+. He will be assisted by USISPF teams across the US and India.
The Quad+ will be a quarterly journal, targeting four publications for the year. Each quarterly will have a unique theme set by the editor.
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