Indian President Narendra Modi has been busy. Between February and April, he visited his counterparts in the United States, the UAE, Italy, and France. Saudi Arabia is coming up. The thread through all of these visits is Modi’s push for a revamp of the India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC), the large-scale generational infrastructure project connecting Asia to Europe and the United States via the Middle East. Touted as a potential counterweight to China’s Belt-and-Road Initiative (BRI), the multi-nodal connectivity project was announced with great fanfare by the signatories at the 2023 G20 summit in Delhi. But it was stalled only months later by the outbreak of war in the Middle East, one of the project’s central hubs.
IMEC’s Comeback (Kristina Kausch, German Marshall Fund of the United States)
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