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India: Militarizing Space with U.S. Help

by Matthew Hoey, Joan Johnson-Freese | Nov 3, 2010

U.S. President Barack Obama and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh have a meeting scheduled in Delhi on November 8. Certain to be on the agenda is the removal of the last remaining export controls on U.S. dual-use technology and military hardware to India, including technology appropriate for development of space weapons. Since President Obama pledged in 2009 to seek a ban on space weapons, the United States should not be helping other countries develop these weapons. But with the final hurdles of export control removed, Washington could be doing just that for India.

What’s So Funny about Outsourcing?

by John Feffer | Oct 26, 2010

What were NBC executives thinking? The unemployment rate remains near double digits, and many Americans have simply stopped looking for work. And what does the network premier this fall but a sitcom called Outsourced about an American manager sent to run a call center in India. The jokes revolve around funny names, unappetizing food, Sikh turbans, arranged marriages. “It’s hard to know what a normal smell is here and what isn’t,” says Todd Dempsy, the culturally insensitive manager played by Ben Rappaport, in last week’s “Touched by an Anglo” episode. And there’s indeed something fishy about a show that capitalizes on U.S. jobs going overseas during an economic downturn.

Obama: Blowing It on India?

by Saif Shahin | Oct 22, 2010

President Barack Obama’s upcoming visit to India will come just after the mid-term elections in the United States. Whether this timing is coincidental or deliberate, it will decide where Obama stands on several contentious issues between the two countries.

One of these issues is the outsourcing of U.S. jobs to India.

To the ISI, Its Hidden Agenda for the Mumbai Attacks Made Perfect Sense

by Russ Wellen | Oct 20, 2010

Brutal as the Mumbai attacks were, the hidden agenda behind them was more logical than the one behind the invasion of Iraq.

Do Nuclear Weapons Keep India and Pakistan From Each Other’s Throats?

by Russ Wellen | Oct 14, 2010

Is the possession of nuclear weapons by India and Pakistan the second “successful” deterrence story after the Cold War?

Would a U.S. Withdrawal From Afghanistan Drive India Into China’s Arms?

by Russ Wellen | Sep 22, 2010

Much as the United States needs to withdraw from Afghanistan, it needs to keep in mind the effects that our military standdown would have on India.

When Demography Shifts From a “Prized Asset” to a “Crippling Burden”

by Russ Wellen | Aug 23, 2010

India attempts to get a handle on overpopulation by offering rural newlyweds cash if they delay having children.

Sri Lanka’s Wartime Abuses

by Vishal Arora | Jun 25, 2010

Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa was in India earlier this month making promises to resettle the war-displaced Sri Lankan Tamil minority one year after his government’s forces won a crippling victory over the Tamil Tiger insurgency. But can he deliver on his pledge and begin the healing of Sri Lanka’s deep ethinc wounds?

Needed: A Coherent U.S. Strategy for India

by Colin Geraghty | May 5, 2010

Many foreign-policy analysts linked to the second Bush administration believe that the elevated and energized partnership with India he and his advisors brought about may be his greatest and most enduring legacy. The significant effort they put in to revitalizing the relationship undoubtedly deserves to be acknowledged for what it is, an important redefinition – but that failed to create the political, institutional framework necessary to sustain the considerable momentum generated by the civil nuclear cooperation deal. Moreover, the redefinition came about as a result of a “de-hyphenated policy,” that is to say a, delinking of India & Pakistan in U.S. foreign policy (i.e., building relations with India and relations with Pakistan rather than an India-Pakistan approach).

Review: ‘Bridging Partition’

by Robert Miller | Apr 14, 2010

Over one million people would die before the partition of India and Pakistan was over in 1947, when one country suddenly became two. The governments in Delhi and Islamabad quickly set about recasting national identities that would strengthen each individual regime. Central to these newly formed identities was a strong loathing for the other side, developed through closed borders, years of warfare, and a systematic approach by both governments to create fear. The people, once united, became enemies.