India-US relations

isara solutions, 2020

This article examines how India-US relations during the Cold War period, marked by confrontation and mistrust, ushered in mutual cooperation in various fields ranging from defence and security cooperation to the nuclear deal, and counter-terrorism initiatives to the “strategic partnership” between them. The article further argues that during the Cold War era, India’s relations were examined purely from the ideological perspective but after the end of the Cold War in 1990 and the disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991, geopolitical equations changed. The article evaluates those factors which brought New Delhi and Washington closer to each other.It discusses how the two Cold War antagonists-India and America- became close strategic partners in defence, security, space, trade and investment fields. Also, it discusses how China has emerged as a crucial factor in the growing ties between New Delhi and Washington.

Why India needs to remain a 'very important strategic partner' for the United States vis-à-vis the geo-political atmosphere of South-East Asia Part I: Over the past decade, despite history of bilateral estrangement U.S.-India cooperation has thrived. The current U.S.-India arrangement on shared security interests brings in a new chapter of American foreign policy, where instead of fighting proxy wars, or enabling nongovernmental actors; the US has engaged in empowering another country to balance its interest in a region. The change in U.S.-India security ties seems as an attempt on part of the US to counterbalance the growing Chinese influence in Asia, its antagonistic attitude towards other nations in the region.

1999

There is little doubt that during the post Cold War period, India-U.S. relationship has attained the level of maturity and strength that was unimaginable during the Cold War period. Official visits of three consecutive American Presidents to India since 2000 are a few among many instances of this mature relationship during the post Cold War phase. But has the relationship moved on the expected route after the end of the Cold War? The time is appropriate for a clinical appraisal of India-U.S. relations two decades after the end of the Cold War. The present article wishes to examine the post Cold War ‘Expectations’ and ‘Reality’ in Indo-U.S. relations and propose a future course of action that may help to strengthen further the bilateral relationship of two major actors in international politics today. The article emanates from a theoretical interest to review current bilateral relations in the perspective of relations immediately after the end of the Cold War. It begins with Expectations in bilateral relationship that people in both countries nurtured after the end of the cold War in 1991, with a view to examine whether these expectations were realized, and what could be done to augment relations in future.

Asian Survey, 1986

It is commonly believed that the process of achieving a better mutual understanding and appreciation in Indo-U.S. relations began in August 1982, when Mrs. Gandhi visited the United States. The actual turning point, however, occurred with the launching of the year-long Festival of India in the U.S. in 1985, and the official visit of the new prime minister, Rajiv Gandhi, in June of the same year. These hopes have been reinforced by the growing volume of trade and economic and technological collaboration between the two countries. Based on these developments, some scholars have argued that the expanding economic exchange between the two, together with the newer security perceptions of the 1980s, would lead to a sustained growth in Indo-U.S. strategic ties that would evolve in the context of a regional detente in which the U.S., and not the Soviet Union, would play a key role. 1 At the regional level, they point out, relations among India, Pakistan, and China eased during the early 1980s, while at the global level the equation between the big three-the U.S., the U.S.S.R., and China-has fundamentally altered. These changes, they argue, should produce a climate congenial for a gradual forging of strategic ties between the U.S. and India. As further evidence they stress not only the growing ties but also India's changing weapons procurement strategy and its perceptions of the emerging balance of power in South Asia. In this article I will assess the prospects for regional detente as well as the future of Indo-U.S. ties in the context of four questions. First, whether

Indo-US Relations: Dimensions and Emerging Trends, Mohd. Badrul Alam (Ed). , Shipra Publications, New Delhi, June 2013,pp175-186 [ISBN:978-81-7541-671-0], 2013

President Barak Obama's visit to India is an attempt to fulfill the need to re-energized India US relations. Both are looking towards each other as friends and potential partners in strategic, economic and military fields. US Policy is to serve its vital interest by facilitating India's emergence as global power. The factors like poverty, inequality, terrorism, internal and external threats are forcing the states to opt the comprehensive security approach to meet these challenges .The strategic dialogue between US and India is taking place since 2001.This process is further strengthening the relations which are more specific and dimensional now. This present study is an attempt to evaluate India-US relations with this perspective. While concluding the argument it seems as the new geo political landscape is mapped out.