Raisina Files 2022 mirrors the theme of this year’s Raisina Dialogue, “Terra Nova: Impassioned, Impatient, and Imperilled.” We have identified six pillars and areas of discussion within this overarching theme to engage with critically—Rethinking Democracy: Trade, Tech, and Ideology; End of Multilateralism: A Networked Global Order?; Water Caucuses: Turbulent Tides in the Indo-Pacific; Communities Inc.: First Responders to Health, Development, and Planet; Achieving Green Trans

This collection of geopolitical essays addresses a variety of recent developments in post-Covid 19 global politics. It addresses the emergence of the Indo-Pacific decade, the geopolitical relationship between China and Russia (the DragonBear), the transformation of the global affairs, the increasing bifurcation of the global system, the growing conflict between the Anglosphere and the EU-centric bloc within the West, the emergence of the AUKUS, the complicated relationship be