[Open Lecture] “Quad Plus and Indo-Pacific: Indian Response to Ukrainian Crisis “

Building 11　Room 604　 Waseda Campus

This lecture explores how the Quad Plus mechanism is set to reshape the global multilateral economic and security co-operations between Quad partner countries and the rest of the world. With the Quad partners – Australia, India, Japan and the United States – seeing deteriorating ties with China, the lecture provides a holistic understanding of the reasons why Quad Plus matters and what it means for the post-COVID Indo-Pacific and Asian order, especially since the early 2022 with the wake of Ukrainian Crisis. The speaker asks how Quad Plus can grow and find synergy with national and multilateral Indo-Pacific initiatives for the post-COVID world. The speaker will analyze the Quad Plus uncharacteristic yet active approach of including countries like South Korea, Israel, Brazil, New Zealand and ASEAN/Vietnam for their successful handling of the pandemic crisis, thereby reshaping the new world’s geopolitical vision.