India, Nov. 14 -- The past half-decade has brought back uncertainty to the centre stage. Since the fall of the Soviet Union, the world has seen decades of a unipolar world order. However, the past half-decade has brought back a multipolar world order. Both economics and geopolitics have shifted decisively. Importantly, for a developing country, the conditions for building prosperity have changed drastically. First, geopolitics shapes trade and investment. In the post-World War II period, the world saw relative peace, which drove global trade growth. Consequently, East Asia and, more recently, China grew on the back of expanding world trade and globalisation. Europe has seen war for the past five years. The conflict in West Asia rages on. Th...