Future will be much more multipolar, says External Affairs Minister Jaishankar
The Hindu
External Affairs Minister Jaishankar emphasizes a future of lasting multipolarity, moving away from hegemonic influences among major countries.
The future will be much more multipolar and the era of big countries creating spheres of influence and reaching huge compacts of a sweeping nature has effectively ended, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has said.
In an interactive session at the Raisina Dialogue on Friday (March 6, 2026), Mr. Jaishankar argued that multipolarity is here to stay.
“My sense is you're going to have a future which will be much more multipolar because no country today has hegemony over so many domains that it is an overall hegemon,” he said.
It is not just about the distribution of GDP and capabilities, and various regions of the world will be “more contributive” in different domains, he noted.
The External Affairs Minister made the remarks during a discussion on Finnish President Alexander Stubb's book, “The Triangle of Power”.
“Multipolarity is here to stay. What we will have... is to some extent, some of the bigger countries will make temporary compacts on limited issues,” he said.
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