IDOS at Raisina Dialogue 2026

Geoeconomic and geopolitical implications for a changing world order marked the discussions and the exchange in New Dheli.

On the 5th and 6th of March, a leading conference on geopolitics and geoeconomics, Raisina Dialogue 2026, took place in New Delhi, India. Prof. Anna-Katharina Hornidge and Dr Tim Vogel contributed to sessions and round tables discussing on the future of global cooperation.

A high-level roundtable jointly organised by Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS) and the German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) brought together senior experts and policymakers from India and Germany, including representatives from the Ministry of External Affairs of India, BMZ, KfW, and the UN, among others, including State Secretary Niels Annen (BMZ) as special guest of honour from Germany. The discussions explored the opportunities of India-EU economic integration, focusing on the geopolitical, geoeconomic, and sustainability dimensions of the new India-EU Free Trade Agreement — India’s most comprehensive trade partnership to date — and its potential to strengthen resilient supply chains and jointly shape the changing global order. The exchange emphasised a shared commitment to climate action, multilateralism, sustainable growth, and a forward-looking vision toward 2030 through partnerships and private sector engagement.

Prof. Anna-Katharina Hornidge spoke – amongst others – in a session entitled ‘Development by Design: Scripting the Next Global Growth Story’ on shaping a beyond-2030 sustainable development agenda. She emphasised the importance of a rules-based international order, even within the growing challenges to multilateralism. Discussions with her fellow panellists who – amongst others – included D. N. Dhungyel, Foreign Minister of Bhutan and Dr. Ngwaru J. Maghembe, Deputy Foreign Minister of Tanzania,  highlighted the need to have a shared planetary future with sustainable economic, social, and ecological dimensions and prepare the continued joint agenda for the future: a beyond-2030 Agenda.

Further, Prof. Hornidge chaired a Roundtable organised jointly by the Hamburg Sustainability Conference and IDOS around the role of the private sector in sustainability transformations, with a keynote by Sts Niels Annen. At the event of International Womens Day, Prof. Hornidge chaired and spoke at a Raisina roundtable organised by the Observer Research Foundation with the focus on women rights in the labour market.