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The Real Deep State by The Gist
Pakistan’s “deep state” helped Imran Khan claim electoral victory. Can he confront it, for the country’s sake?
Read Reviews of “Crashed,” “Invisible Countries,” and More
Read Foreign Policy staffers’ reviews of recent releases on the political fallout of the global financial meltdown, the notion of nationhood, the history of U.S. trade politics, France’s role in the Rwandan genocide, India’s rise, and social media’s role in modern conflicts.
Financial Times Summer 2018: Politics selection (June 29, 2018):
US has no role in resolution of Kashmir dispute: Expert
NEW YORK: The US has “no role” in the resolution of the Kashmir dispute between India and Pakistan despite Islamabad seeking third party intervention by Washington, a top American South Asia expert has said.
China’s deep support, investment in Pakistan create challenges for India: expert – Times of India
NEW YORK: China’s deep support and investment in Pakistan create challenges for India and increasingly the “Pakistan issue is part of the China issue” in the broader range of topics in the India-US agenda, a top American expert has said.
How India Is Making Its Place in the World – Knowledge@Wharton
India’s $2.6 trillion economy last year became the world’s sixth largest, outstripping France, and with a projected GDP growth rate of between 7% and 7.5%, it could become the fifth largest, larger than that of the U.K. And yet, while the country’s economic clout has been growing, it still has been unable to secure permanent membership on the U.N.
A Country whose Time has Come – Kunal Singh
Our Time has Come: How India is Making its Place in the World by Alyssa Ayres Oxford University Press, 360 pp., 2018. In a February 2018 article for War On the Rocks, political scientist Paul Staniland warned US policymakers against “excessive optimism about India’s ability”. “India is a hard-pressed power,” Staniland continued, “facing deep domestic…
‘Our Time Has Come ‘ is a lucid and compelling account of India under Modi
Visiting Mobutu’s Zaire in 1975, V S Naipaul met “bright and friendly” people who believed “that with the economic collapse of the West … the tide is running Africa’s way”. Many of these people, Naipaul feared, “awakening to ideas of history, a knowledge of injustice and a sense of their own dignity, will find themselves unsupported by their society”.
Expert Says India’s ‘Time Has Come,’ but Does the World Agree? – Global Atlanta
India is realizing its place on the world stage in ways that it never has before; now it’s up to its peers to clear a more prominent seat at the table for the world’s largest democracy. That was the message of Alyssa Ayres, senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, who stopped at Indian …
Trump Urges India To Assume Greater Role In Regional Approach To Afghanistan
NPR’s Robert Siegel talks with Alyssa Ayres of the Council on Foreign Relations about why President Trump urged India to take a greater role in the regional approach to the conflict in Afghanistan. ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: President Trump spoke of a regional approach to the conflict in Afghanistan last night, including a pledge to further develop the U.S.
BOOKS IN BRIEF
C. DONALD JOHNSON, OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 664 PP., $34.95, APRIL 2018 DURING THE U.S. CIVIL WAR, in the midst of one of the country’s many protectionist benders, a man named Joseph Wharton successfully lobbied for high tariffs on imported nickel. It made sense for him: He owned the nation’s only working nickel mine.
Acquainting American readers with Asia’s third-largest economy
Ayres needs no introduction to those who follow international affairs. Our Time Has Come: How India is Making Its place in The World by Alyssa Ayres OUP, pp 360 Rs 695. India’s sense of destiny and its quest for greater global prominence has spawned a cottage industry of books which can be categorised as good, bad and indifferent.
‘We have a lot of economic friction’
The Trump administration is taking a different approach to answering India’s economic questions, feels Alyssa Ayres
Opinion Journal: The Trump-Modi Friendship
Council on Foreign Relations Senior Fellow Alyssa Ayres on a stronger alliance and the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue. Photo Credit: Getty Images.
A ‘Four’midable Bid for UN Security Council: G4 Gamechanger?
The Buck Stops Here broadcasts from Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York where the historic meeting of G4 – India, Brazil, Germany and Japan – hosted by Prime Minister Modi made a strong push for the reform of UN Security Council and underscored India’s bid for a permanent seat at the UN body.
Obama at Republic Day, Nuclear Deal Done: PM Modi Packs a Power Punch
Over ‘chai pe charcha’, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Barack Obama have cleared the slips between the cup and the lip on the India-US nuclear deal. The External Affairs Ministry says, “The deal is done”. On this special programme, we debate: has PM Modi made a big political statement by succeeding where Manmohan Singh failed?
Ivanka Trump in Hyderabad: Big boost to India-US dostana?
Ivanka Trump in Hyderabad: Big boost to India-US dostana?
Why India (Not China) Is the Future of Asia | Octavian Report
Alyssa Ayres is the senior fellow for India, Pakistan, and South Asia at the Council on Foreign Relations. We spoke to her about Narendra Modi, the Indian economy, and how the world’s largest democracy can assume its rightful place on the global stage. Read her piece on the geopolitical meaning of cricket here.
Alyssa Ayres on India’s Growing Global Power
India has long desired to be counted among the world’s top powers, an aspiration that is finally at hand. In her latest book – Our Time Has Come: How India is Making Its Place in the World – Alyssa Ayres, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, explains that while on the path to becoming a recognized great power, India has not fully abandoned its past policy positions.
‘Enduring Global Partnership’: The Takeaways From PM Modi’s US Visit
On The Buck Stops Here, we focus on PM Narendra Modi’s visit to the US. We look ahead at his address to the joint sitting of the US Congress and also decode the Indo-US joint statement. Is there some confusion at climate change commitments at India’s end and what progress has been made on India’s pitch for membership of Nuclear Suppliers Group?
India’s rise as a global power highly likely, says Alyssa Ayres
Alyssa Ayres is senior fellow for India, Pakistan and South Asia at the New York-based Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). Her latest book, Our Time Has Come: How India Is Making Its Place In The World, is aimed at acquainting American readers with Asia’s third-largest economy.
The Maldives Is Seeing Hundreds of Hotel Cancellations a Day – Should Travelers Really Be Worried?
Despite its crystalline beaches and breezy palm trees, the island nation of the Maldives is not in a state of paradise at the moment. The South Asian archipelago is experiencing turmoil after its president, Abdulla Yameen, declared a state of emergency following a Supreme Court ruling that he felt threatened his leadership.
‘Our Time Has Come-How India is Making Its place in The World’ review: An uncritical eye
In 1927, Mahatma Gandhi wrote a rejoinder to a book by American historian Katherine Mayo, known for her racist views on Anglo-Saxon superiority, contempt for all other races, and her belief that ‘negroes’ must not be released from slavery nor Indians from British imperialism.
India-China ties a ‘Cold War-like’ relationship in making, says ex-US diplomat Alyssa Ayres – Firstpost
Washington: India and China have a “Cold war-like” relationship in the making but New Delhi is unlikely to join something framed as a US-led front to contain Beijing, a former American diplomat has said.
Alyssa Ayres: ”Nothing is guaranteed as India looks to its future” – Open The Magazine
ALYSSA AYRES IS a South Asia specialist at the Council on Foreign Relations, an American think-tank. In her previous role as the US deputy assistant secretary for South Asia in the Barack Obama administration, Ayres had a ring-side view of events in one of the most challenging parts of the world from an American foreign …
Has India’s Time Come? An Interview With Alyssa Ayres
India has started 2018 with a flurry of activity that showcases its growing strategic importance on the global stage. Earlier this week, Narendra Modi became the first Indian prime minister in more than 20 years to attend the World Economic Forum in Davos, delivering a speech that championed democracy, globalization, and international cooperation to combat terrorism and climate change.
Davos Is Narendra Modi’s Big Stage to Push a Muscular Vision of India
NEW DELHI-Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi prepares this week to address global business and political leaders in Davos, Switzerland, as his country passes France and the U.K. to become the world’s fifth-largest economy, underscoring the South Asian nation’s drive for recognition as a great power.
With Greater Economic Strength, India Believes Its ‘Time Has Come’
Once poverty-stricken and reliant on international aid, India opened up its economy in the early 1990s and has since seen steady, sometimes remarkable, economic growth. Today, by most measures, India is one of the world’s largest and fastest growing economies.
Book Club No 18: Alyssa Ayres’s Our Time Has Come: How India Is Making Its Place in the World
Alyssa Ayres landed in India during her junior year in college. Decades later, she’s still going back. She is the senior fellow for India, Pakistan, and South Asia at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). Previously, she’s served at the State Department. From 2010 to 2013 she served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia.
Aligned but not Allied – Open The Magazine
SOMETIME IN 1994, PV Narasimha Rao and Bill Clinton met for lunch during the Prime Minister’s visit to the United States. The Soviet Union had dissolved some years earlier and India was without a powerful friend in the international arena. The pragmatic Rao had quietly begun the process of rebuilding relations with the US.
U.S. To Pakistan: Crack Down On Terrorism Or Lose U.S. Aid
subscribe to The NPR Politics Podcast podcast The White House has suspended all U.S. security assistance to Pakistan, and is calling on Pakistan to deny safe haven to extremists who are undermining Afghanistan’s government. ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: The Trump administration is sending a clear message to Pakistan – crack down on terrorism or lose hundreds of millions of dollars in U.S.
Review: For India, ‘Our Time Has Come’
When India won independence in 1947, there was every hope that it would join the ranks of truly consequential nations within a generation or two. Instead it proved to be an eye-popping economic laggard for 41/2 decades, shutting its markets to the world and passing the years in an autarkic trance, while other emerging nations left it far behind.
