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India-US Partnership: Asian Challenges and Beyond by P.P. Shukla

About Book : India and the United States of America aim to form a strategic partnership of trust, cooperation and collaboration, especially in the Asia-Pacific region. Indo-US relationship has had its share of ups and downs, but both admit to the nec....

November 13, 2013 International Relations and Diplomacy , US , China , strategic partnership , United States , Book Published
Indo-US Defence Trade: Moving to a Higher Trajectory
Brig Gurmeet Kanwal

Contrary to most of the commentary that has appeared in the Indian media, the Obama-Manmohan Singh meeting at the White House on September 26, 2013 was unexpectedly successful in setting the Indo-US strategic partnership on the path to a higher traje....

October 18, 2013 International Relations and Diplomacy , US
Indo-US Ties: Slow Yet Steady Transformation
Amb Kanwal Sibal

The most important foreign policy development in the last decade has been the remarkable improvement in India’s relations with the United States. From mutual suspicion, lack of empathy and a policy of keeping the relationship at a low level to avoi....

October 04, 2013 International Relations and Diplomacy , US
All Eyes on Singh-Obama Talks
Amb Kanwal Sibal

All eyes will be on the meeting between Indian Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh and President Barack Obama this week and what it produces. This is natural as our relationship with the US is, in many ways, the most important external relationship we h....

September 25, 2013 International Relations and Diplomacy , US
Biden’s India Visit – Points to Ponder
Amb Prabhat P Shukla

Vice President Joe Biden was in India for four days in July, visiting Delhi and Mumbai. The visit got less than the usual level of media exposure than high-level visits from the US normally attract. This was effectively the second visit at this level....

September 09, 2013 International Relations and Diplomacy , US
Indo-US Relations: Time to Impart Momentum
Brig Vinod Anand, Senior Fellow, VIF

The fourth India US strategic dialogue that was held in New Delhi in the last week of June was aimed at reviewing progress in bilateral relations and outlining the trajectory ahead. Given the nature of evolving Indo-US relationship, no major breakthr....

July 08, 2013 International Relations and Diplomacy , US
US Cyber Surveillance and Indian Vulnerability - What India Needs to do
Commander Mukesh Saini (Retd.)

“There is no permanent friend and there is no permanent enemy” - Chanakaya
USA is not new to the controversies related to surveillance of its own citizens as well as its allies. Neither is Project PRISM a first such surveillan....

July 08, 2013 International Relations and Diplomacy , US
Interaction with Mr David McKean

On 25 June 2013, Mr David McKean, Director of Policy Planning in the US Department of State and Senior Advisor to the Secretary of State called on Mr Ajit Doval, KC, Director, VIF in his office to discuss issues of mutual concern to the US and India.....

July 01, 2013 International Relations and Diplomacy , US , Interaction , Af-Pak region , Policy Planning , Afghanistan Post 2014 , Secretary of State
As US goes Retrograde in Afghanistan Pakistan gets an Upgrade
Monish Gulati

Introduction Kicking-off the first phase of the US pull-out from Afghanistan, two convoys of 25 containers each crossed the Torkham and Chaman border check-posts in Pakistan on 10 Feb 2013. The containers, “part of the US redeployment of ....

February 20, 2013 International Relations and Diplomacy , Neighbourhood Studies , US , Afghanistan , Pakistan
Friendly Handshake
Amb Kanwal Sibal

Looking ahead, what could President Barack Obama’s second term mean for relations between India and the United States of America? Will the relationship stay more or less at the level that it has already reached or will it see a surge in the years a....

January 29, 2013 International Relations and Diplomacy , US
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