Politics
India Shows Split Personality as Emerging Donor
In recent years India’s aid program has changed dramatically in size, focus, and strategic thinking. What is the extent of India’s giving and how has it changed? As an emerging donor how can India best align its aid strategy with a realistic assessment of its strengths?
Is It Time for Obama?
Perhaps it is the moment that will bring Obama victory. Let us hope that Obama will use it well.
Kashmiri Separatists Let Down Their People
India celebrates its muslim authors; Pakistan relegates its to misery. India sends a probe to the moon; Pakistan goes to the IMF for a rescue. The Kashmiri separatists protest – but take their right to do so for granted. By doing so they do themselves and their people no favors.
Who’s Better for India: Obama or McCain?
An Obama administration committed to multilateralism might be better for the world. But it is wrong to equate India’s interests with those of the world. This article argues that Republican presidents have always been more beneficial for India, given their commitment to trade, immigration, and openness to reshaping the world order to accommodate rising powers – such as India.
Climate Change and India: Negotiating A Friendly Global Policy
Getting the world to act on climate change is in India’s interests, yet the country has avoided action of its own. This can be explained by the realities of international negotiation. But amid mounting pressure for a global policy framework, what are the steps India should move the agenda in its favor?
India and the Politics of Climate Change
India would benefit from a collective response to global warming, but in the short term a unilateral strategy of high emissions growth is better. How can India ensure the optimal outcome?
Book Review: Required Readings on India
Books on India are a dime a dozen these days. But while much of the attention has been focused either on fiction writers, in the vien of Jhumpa Lahiri or Amitav Ghosh, or on the economic success of India, a series of books have been published in the last months that analyze India’s polity and [...]
