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As the deadline for a deal on Iran’s nuclear program approaches, the range of possible outcomes will have implications not just for the region and for world powers at the negotiating table, but also much more broadly.
Narendra Modi aims to deepen India’s strategic footprint. Meanwhile, China has been investing in the islands, raising concern in New Delhi that India is being challenged in its own backyard.
Narendra Modi has made up for lost time in Mauritius when he outlined a comprehensive framework for India as a maritime power.
India’s latest budget has generated huge interest in its ability to set the country on a path of sustained and rapid growth.
As he travels across the Indian Ocean this week, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s biggest challenge is not countering China. His real problem is in Delhi, afflicted by a condition called continentalism, which has proved rather difficult to overcome.
Given its enduring impact on India and its neighborhood, responding to China’s Silk Road initiative is a major challenge for Indian foreign policy.
The Sangh Parivar has traditionally been hostile to caste-based reservations, but the BJP has been less categorically hostile to quota politics because it could not risk alienating voters who valued reservations.
If the Modi government can change the external dimension to Jammu and Kashmir for the better, it could create a conducive environment for the ambitious internal agenda for development articulated by the BJP and PDP.
Having suspended talks with Islamabad last August, the Indian government needed a diplomatic device to renew the engagement with Pakistan.
The principal strategic challenge facing the United States today is preserving its global primacy in the face of rising challengers such as China.