{"href":"https://api.simplecast.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fthe-nordic-asia-podcast.simplecast.com%2Fepisodes%2Findias-ukrainian-dilemma-51ouBTbP","width":444,"version":"1.0","type":"rich","title":"India’s Ukrainian Dilemma","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/cb128d90-f83c-4b59-b10e-b3318cf004ca/66782e5d-14b7-4c1f-bbd6-028d458d1965/nordicasiapodcastsmall.jpg","thumbnail_height":300,"provider_url":"https://simplecast.com","provider_name":"Simplecast","html":"","height":200,"description":"The Russian war in Ukraine has placed India in a difficult situation: how to retain the historically good relationship with Russia, without jeopardizing the increasingly important strategic partnership with the USA? In this episode, Kenneth Bo Nielsen is joined by Ravinder Kaur, Henrik Chetan Aspengren and Sunniva Engh to analyze the diplomatic tightrope that India has had to walk over the war in Ukraine, and draw out the implications of India handling of its Ukrainian Dilemma for the country’s position in the world, and for global geopolitics more broadly.\nSunniva Engh is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Oslo.\nHenrik Chetan Aspengren is a Research Fellow at the Asia Programme at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs.\nRavinder Kaur is an Associate Professor of Modern South Asian Studies and directs the Centre of Global South Asian Studies at the University of Copenhagen.\nKenneth Bo Nielsen is an Associate Professor at the dept. of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo and one of the leaders of the Norwegian Network for Asian Studies.\nThe Nordic Asia Podcast is a collaboration sharing expertise on Asia across the Nordic region, brought to you by the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (NIAS) based at the University of Copenhagen, along with our academic partners: the Centre for East Asian Studies at the University of Turku, and Asianettverket at the University of Oslo.\nWe aim to produce timely, topical and well-edited discussions of new research and developments about Asia.\nAbout NIAS: www.nias.ku.dk\nTranscripts of the Nordic Asia Podcasts: http://www.nias.ku.dk/nordic-asia-podcast"}