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New Atlanticist

Dec 1, 2009

Singh’s U.S. Visit: Were Expectations Met?

By Shikha Bhatnagar

For the week leading up to the Prime Minister of India’s arrival to Washington, DC, the first State Visit for the Obama Administration, the anticipation in this city was noticeable, a temporary relief from the gloomy winter in an even gloomier economy.  Policymakers and pundits in the city and region described the importance of this […]

New Atlanticist

Dec 1, 2009

Prime Minister Singh’s Objectives

By Frank Wisner

Although Prime Minister Singh had met President Obama earlier, they did not have the time together needed to take stock of each other and create the basis for a common understanding of the issues which preoccupy our two nations.  The Indian Prime Minister attaches special importance to the relationship with the United States, and he […]

New Atlanticist

Dec 1, 2009

The Great Hype Forward

By Manvendra Singhwas

Any Indian state visit that runs into an important anniversary is always a difficult act to live up to. And that precisely was the context of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s recently concluded Washington trip. The first Indian head of government interaction with the Obama dispensation was held in the days before the first anniversary of […]

New Atlanticist

Dec 1, 2009

A “Defining Partnership” Renewed

By Rani Mullen

Indian Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh’s official visit to Washington D.C. was hailed as a success by both sides.  Though the visit did not culminate in the United States operationalizing the 2005 civilian nuclear deal, the meetings between the two heads of state went a great way towards reaffirming that the United States values this […]

New Atlanticist

Dec 1, 2009

Where is the Indispensability?

By Tariq Fatemi

The Obama White House’s first state guest was the Indian Prime Minister, which was not surprising given that India is the big success story of the post-Cold war era that appears destined for an increasingly important global role.

New Atlanticist

Dec 1, 2009

Pakistan and India: Common Threat Needs Common Defense

By Pervez Hoodbhoy

Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi says Pakistan is “compiling hard evidence of India’s involvement” in terrorist attacks on Pakistan’s public and its armed forces. If he and the Interior Minister are correct, then we must conclude that the Indians are psychotics possessed with a death wish or, perhaps, plain stupid. While India’s assistance for […]

New Atlanticist

Dec 1, 2009

Obama Faces Ghost of LBJ in Tonight’s Speech

By Don Snow

President Obama has apparently reached his decision on Afghanistan, which he will explain to the public on Tuesday night. If early leaks intended to get us more used to–and presumably comfortable with–the content are correct, he is going to give General McChrystal most of what he wants, although with some time constraints (the “off ramps”) […]

Afghanistan

New Atlanticist

Nov 30, 2009

Obama’s Afghanistan Speech: What to Look For

By James Joyner

President Obama’s speech tomorrow night, in which he finally announces his Afghan strategy and responds to General McChrystal’s September request for more troops, will be closely watched by the American public, our NATO Allies, foreign leaders, and the people of Afghanistan and the region.

Afghanistan

New Atlanticist

Nov 24, 2009

Philippa Thomas Interview: India PM Visit

By James Joyner

Sarwar Kashmeri, a nonresident senior fellow with the Atlantic Council’s International Security Program, interviewed Philippa Thomas, presenter of  BBC’s World News Today, for the New Atlanticist Podcast Series.  Thomas discussed the visit of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s visit to the United States.

New Atlanticist

Nov 24, 2009

Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict Needs a New Security Conference

By Alexandros Petersen

Alexandros Petersen, Dinu Patriciu Fellow for Transatlantic Energy Security and associate director of the Eurasia Energy Center at the Atlantic Council, was interviewed by Leyla Tagiyeva of Azerbaijan’s News.Az on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

New Atlanticist

Nov 23, 2009

Obama and Afghanistan: No Good Choices

By Don Snow

Within the next several days, President Obama will likely announce his decision regarding American strategy in Afghanistan. He has kept his counsel close to the vest on this, and I have no idea good enough to bet on what he will decide. One thing I do know for certain: regardless of what his decision is, […]

Afghanistan

New Atlanticist

Nov 20, 2009

Passage to America: Great Expectations for Manmohan Singh

By Shuja Nawaz

Indian Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh’s first state visit to Washington next week is the highly awaited event of the political season for this “city of magnificent intentions.”  Though of course, Dickens did use that phrase in a different context in the 19th century.

New Atlanticist

Nov 20, 2009

Facing the Indian Conundrum: Obama’s Date with Singh

By Arun Prakash

Although he has met President Barak Obama more than once in the recent past, Dr. Manmohan Singh’s forthcoming maiden state visit to the U.S. is assigned great significance and has New Delhi speculating about the likely nature and content of their dialogue.

New Atlanticist

Nov 20, 2009

U.S.-India Relations: Testing Times Ahead

By Mohan Guruswamy

By the time Dr. Manmohan Singh visits the White House on November 24, President Obama would have largely recovered from the jetlag after his travels in East Asia.  But one can be sure that the impressions made by the optimistic and focused leaders of the three great economic powerhouses of the region – the ASEAN, […]

New Atlanticist

Nov 20, 2009

Expanding the U.S.-India Comfort Zone in a Time of Uncertainty

By M.J. Akbar

Dr. Manmohan Singh’s American month began with a warm lunch for George Bush in Delhi and will end with a more constrained dinner with Barack Obama in Washington.

New Atlanticist

Nov 20, 2009

Striving for a True U.S.-India Strategic Partnership

By Rani Mullen

The Indian prime minister Dr. Manmohan Singh’s visit to Washington is the first official state visit of the Obama administration, an indication of the importance the administration attaches to the Indo-U.S. relationship.

New Atlanticist

Nov 19, 2009

Iran Problems Go Beyond Nukes

By Arnaud de Borchgrave

“It will be just like Syria,” said the strategic scholar just back from Israel and speculating about the much-debated question of whether Israel will eventually bomb Iran’s nuclear installations.

Iran

New Atlanticist

Nov 17, 2009

French Ship Sale to Russia Must Be Blown Off Course

By David Smith

The French Navy ship Mistral tied up at a downtown Saint Petersburg pier November 23. With the golden dome of St. Isaac’s Cathedral shimmering in the background, the amphibious assault ship made a perfect sales promotion picture, which was precisely its mission.  Some in Paris—led by the Elysée Palace—want to sell Mistral class ships to […]

France Russia

New Atlanticist

Nov 16, 2009

Afghanistan Exit: Follow The Gorbachev Plan

By Arnaud de Borchgrave

Did Mikhail Gorbachev launch glasnost and perestroika in the mid-1980s with the aim of bringing about genuine democratic change in the Soviet Union? That’s what he says in two interviews on both sides of the Atlantic — Euronews’ Maria Pineiro and Nation Editor Katrina vanden Heuvel — to mark the 20th anniversary of the fall […]

Afghanistan

New Atlanticist

Nov 16, 2009

India Must Have a Role in U.S. Afghan Strategy

By Adnan Zulfiqar

While the nation awaits the administration’s plans for Afghanistan, few expect that decision to make any mention of India. But it should.

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