Diplomacy
Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh and President Barack Obama at a summit meeting in the White House last September
Dynamics of Indo-US Relationship It appears that Indian and American efforts to strengthen the “strategic partnership” have attained a matured level and are not likely to be abandoned due to any single issue of variance. The fundamental relations appear to be strong and hiccups on the way would not damage the underlying structure of the partnership.
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By Chintamani Mahapatra India’s relations with the United States have always been a dynamic one. Despite diverse approaches to economic growth strategy, issues of Cold War and regional security developments; India has every time succeeded in maintaining a working relationship with the United States. The end of the Cold War brought new challenges and opportunities for both the countries to adopt innovative methods to give new directions to their relationship. The collapse of the USSR, weakening of Washington’s Cold War driven alliance with Islamabad removed major irritants in their relationship, while Indian economic reforms in the early 1990s promoted deeper trade and SP’s
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investment relations between India and the United States. Although India’s decision to turn itself into a full-fledged nuclear weapon power flew on the face of American nuclear non-proliferation regime in late 1990s and threatened to derail post-Cold War camaraderie between the two countries, President Bill Clinton came on a mission to India in March 2000 to befriend the nuclear India. It was Mission Possible and the early years of the 21st century witnessed a new paradigm of the US-India cooperative endeavour. Republican President George Bush, Democratic President Clinton’s successor, systematically built on the edifice
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