World order undergoing a great churn, requires systems to think differently, says EAM Jaishankar
Describing the Kashmir issue as an invasion which was reframed into a dispute, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Tuesday (March 18, 2025) made a case for an international order, calling for a United Nations that was not only strong but also fair. 

Speaking at the session on ‘Thrones and Thorns: Defending the Integrity of Nations’ at the Raisina Dialogue 2025 in New Delhi, he asserted that a strong global order must have some basic consistency of standards.

Asked about his recent remarks to an international publication, where he said, “If you don’t have an order, then you are looking at a very anarchic world’, EAM Jaishankar highlighted the need for an international order, just like the need for a domestic order. 

“It’s not just big countries who will benefit if there is no order. I would argue that any country which would take risks, which would have extreme positions, which would test the system, will actually use the disorder to its advantage. I mean we have seen in our own neighbourhood,” he said. 

According to EAM Jaishankar, the old order, shaped by its time, had exaggerated virtues — rule-makers and rule-takers saw it differently, with rules often applied selectively to serve interests. He pointed out that the Kashmir issue reflects this selective approach. 

“After the Second World War, the longest standing illegal, I would say presence, occupation, of a territory by another country pertains to India, what we saw in Kashmir. Now we went to the UN, what was an invasion was made into a dispute. So the attacker and the victim were put on par,” the Indian External Affairs Minister pointed out.

“We need a strong UN, but a strong UN requires a fair UN. A strong global order must have some basic consistency of standards,” EAM Jaishankar emphasized.

Earlier, speaking during the inaugural session on Monday (March 17, 2025), EAM Jaishankar said the world order was undergoing a great churn. “This requires leadership, the kind that we have in the room today. It requires systems to think differently, not simply falling back on old assumptions to deal with new situations,” he noted.


The 10th edition of the Raisina Dialogue was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon on March 17.

The three-day event which runs till March 19, 2025 will see over 3500 participants from about 125 countries in person. Decision makers and thought leaders of the world are engaging each other across conversations in various formats, over six thematic pillars.

The Raisina Dialogue, hosted by the Observer Research Foundation in partnership with the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), is India’s premier conference on geopolitics and geoeconomics committed to addressing the most challenging issues facing the global community.