“India as a Global Power in the Offing”, India Narrative, October 17, 2025

“If by 2047 India, with its population of around 1.7 billion by then, becomes a developed country (Viksit Bharat), it follows that it will have become a genuine “global power.” The question then is: what kind of “global power” will India be?

The current understanding of the attributes of a global power is that of a country capable of exercising global influence based on its economic and military strength—a country that can influence the direction and substance of decisions on important issues facing the international community, either unilaterally or through groupings it dominates. It means a country that controls or can materially influence the workings and decisions of international political and financial institutions. It also implies that, through its grip on international communication flows, it can play a preponderant role in shaping global narratives. It is a power that is immune to punishment for mistakes, excesses, or even crimes it commits. It can pursue double standards in its international discourse and dealings. In short, a global power exerts a great and often arbitrary weight in the functioning of the international system as it exists.

By this broad-based definition, the United States sits on top of the global power pyramid. The former colonial powers are still classified as great powers, if not global powers, because France and the UK are permanent members of the UN Security Council. Both are advanced industrial economies, technologically innovative, and economically prosperous despite mounting problems, and both possess strategic capabilities, including nuclear weapons. As part of the G7, they are able to enhance their influence within the global system…….”

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