Ashley J. Tellis
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Ashley J. Tellis on President Bush's Visit to India
Ashley J. Tellis explains the strategic logic of a U.S.-India bilateral relationship, and provides an overview of the U.S.-India nuclear agreement, including India’s civilian-military nuclear separation plan.
Source: Council on Foreign Relations

Click to the right for the event transcript by Federal News Service Inc.
About the Author
Former Senior Fellow
Ashley J. Tellis was a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
- Multipolar Dreams, Bipolar Realities: India’s Great Power FuturePaper
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