Obama Administration

While the Chinese president’s trip concluded with a joint statement and the signing of trade and investment deals, it achieved little in terms of addressing pressing global problems and bilateral issues.

• Jagannath P. Panda , R N Das , Priyanka Pandit , Vidya Krishnamurthi
• February 01, 2011
• Issue Brief

Defence diplomacy helps build trust and confidence between nations and facilitates cooperation at political and economic level. This is evident from the growing US-India strategic relationship. Since the end of the Cold War, the US-India relationship has been evolving and “reaching new heights”. In this budding relationship, the most visible manifestation is cooperation in the sphere of defence.

• Saroj Bishoyi
• January 2011
• Journal of Defence Studies

The 21st century may not hold the same strategic logic of the 1960s and 1970s towards discovering outer space. Over a period of time, particularly after the end of the Cold War, space appears to have lost some, if not all, of its strategic significance. During 2004, the then US president, George W. Bush, had argued that the 21st century moon exploration initiative by the US should be viewed as part of a journey and not a race. Mostly, the peaceful voyage of global activities in space got a jolt when China conducted an anti-satellite test (ASAT) during January 2007.

• Ajey Lele
• January 2011
• Strategic Analysis

The India-US strategic partnership grounded in shared values as well as shared interests has been further deepened during Obama’s visit.

• Sanjeev Kumar Shrivastav
• December 09, 2010
• Issue Brief

The removal of some organisations from the Entity List has merely removed a layer of controls and there is no guarantee that all dual-use curbs on India would go.

• Rajiv Nayan
• November 10, 2010
• IDSA Comments

Obama’s announcement of support for India’s prospective membership in multi-lateral export control regimes is a natural corollary of US efforts over the past five years to fully accommodate India in the global non-proliferation regime.

• S. Samuel C. Rajiv
• November 10, 2010
• IDSA Comments

The Kalam-NSS Indian-American Energy Initiative is being conceptualized by individuals with experience in the field of space technologies as well as policy planning.

• Ajey Lele
• November 09, 2010
• IDSA Comments

President Obama should make his stance clear on the issues of nuclear cooperation between China and Pakistan and perhaps take up the issue with Hu Jintao when he visits Washington DC early next year.

• Ch. Viyyanna Sastry
• November 04, 2010
• IDSA Comments

This report summarizes the conclusions of a study that was initiated earlier this year on the future of India United States relations in the coming decade.

• Untitled , Untitled , Anurag Bisen
• October 29, 2010
• Policy Brief

With the Senate Committee on Foreign Relatons agreeing on September 16 to send the New START to the full Senate for ratification, the prospects of realising the potential of the Obama administration’s signal foreign policy achievement seem to have improved considerably.

• S. Samuel C. Rajiv
• September 23, 2010
• Issue Brief