The Free Fall of Moral Leadership

Key Points

• 1Intensified rivalries in several parts of the world represent a failure of leadership.
• 2The unconscionable ambivalence of world leaders in standing up for principle over expediency speaks for itself.
• 3Lasting peace in West Asia will remain hostage to an indelible sense of injustice and moral outrage.
• 4The world needs leadership driven by a search for global consensus and subject to the discipline of international law.
• 5Democratic leadership is about walking alone in defense of principle.
• 6India must stand out in defense of justice everywhere, flexing its moral muscle for shaping a just world order.