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2008

08.08.08 - America has a vested interest in India's success, online post of John McCain

07.03.08 - Strobe Talbott on THE US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION: Why All Augurs well for India, Observer Research Forum

06.25.08 - Teresita C. Shaffer: “U.S.-INDIA RELATIONS NEEDED: A NEW KIND OF PARTNERSHIP”, Testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives

06.13.08 - Indra K Nooyi, PepsioCo's first lady Chairman and CEO: "India has been transformed. The country I go back to is not the same country I left." Speech given before United States India Business Council.

05.19.08 - "India has in many ways captured the imagination of America", Transcript of interactive session with US Ambassador David Campbell Mulford, The Hindu

04.29.08 - U.S. is One of the ‘Central Pillars’ of Indian Foreign Policy, Bruce O. Riedel, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Saban Center for Middle East Policy, Brookings Institution

04.13.08 - Engaging India: The New Indo-USA Partnership Poses Challenges for the Future Us Administrations, by Dr. Adityanjee is the President of Council for Strategic Affairs, New Delhi

02.10.08 - Devil's Advocate: 'N-deal India's passport to the world', Ambassador David Muford talks to CNN-IBN about the nuclear deal

01.07.08 - Quiet continuity for U.S.-India relations by Daniel Markey, Senior Fellow for India, Pakistan, and South Asia, Council of Foreign Relations

Jan.08 - Is India an Ally? by Sadanand Dhume, a former India correspondent of the Far Eastern Economic Review and a fellow at the Asia Society in Washington, D.C.

2007

Nov/Dec.07 - America's Strategic Opportunity With India, R. Nicholas Burns, U.S. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs

10.24.07 - Economic Power and Promise of India, Remarks by Secretary Henry M. Paulson, Jr. before The Council on Foreign Relations

10.01.07 - India's Foreign Policy and Future India-US Relations, Indian Minister of External Affairs Pranab Mukherjee

09.18.07 - Indo-US military ties are inevitable, General V P Malik (retd) in RediffNews

08.09.2007 - Power Plays: Business Implications of the Indo-U.S. Nuclear Deal, Knowledge India@Wharton

08.03.2007 - Text of US-India Civil Nuclear Agreement

07.27.2007 - Nicholas Burns on the US-India 123 Peaceful Nuclear Cooperation Agreement

07.12.2007 - Increasing business and education ties between India and the US lead to shared foreign-policy interests, Teresita C. Schaffer in Yale Global Online

06.27.2007 - Remarks At the U.S.-India Business Council 32nd Anniversary “Global India” Summit, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice

06.21.2007 - INDIA: Modest Global Power, analysis by John Feffer

06.19.2007 - Obama acknowledges "that Indian American concerns are entirely justified", Rediff India Abroad interview with Senator Barack Obama

05.23.2007 - "U.S. - India Relations: The Road Ahead", Heritage Foundation in-depth discussion exploring the range of opportunities in furthering U.S.-India ties and the broader stakes of the relationship in helping to promote stability in Asia and beyond.

05.23.2007 - "A Future Unbound”: U.S.-India Relations, R. Nicholas Burns, Under Secretary for Political Affairs, Remarks to the Heritage Foundation, Washington, DC

05.03.2007 - India will become bigger than the USA: Jeffrey Sachs, Special Advisor to the UN Secretary General on Millennium Development Goals and one of the world's foremost economists

04.29.2007 - 'Heady Times' For India And the U.S., by Nicholas Burns, Undersecretary of State

04.09.2007 - Will India Be a Better Strategic Partner Than China?, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

04.04.2007 - U.S.-India Defense Relations: Strategic Perspectives, Center for Strategic and International Studies - South Asia Monitor

03.11.2007 - Walker's World: India's new alliances, United Press International

03.09.2007 - What India Wants, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

02.22.2007 - The United States, India, and the World, Carnegie Endowment

01.22.2007 - India's Rising Growth Potential, Goldman Sachs Global Economic Update (PDF)

01.17.2007 - US-India Strategic Partnership: Where is it Headed? Presentation by Ram Narayanan to SAPRA, New Delhi, India.

2006

12.19.2006 - The New Great Game by Daniel Twining in The Weekly Standard

12.18.2006 - U.S.-India Relations: Interview with Richard A. Boucher, Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs

12.18.2006 - The other rising Asian space power

12.8.2006 - U.S. Council on Foreign Relations: India’s Energy Crunch

12.6.2006 - India’s demographic dividend by Bibek Debroy, secretary general, PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry, New Delhi

12.5.2006 - 'In 2020 the two closest nations in the world will be India and US'
Rediff interview with Sen. Joseph Biden

12.4.2006 - 'No evidence that India has transferred lethal weapons to Iran'
Rediff Interview with Sen. Joseph Biden

12.4.2006 - India and China are the only real Brics in the wall
Financial Times

11.30.2006 - Poll finds India now ranks fifth in "warm" feelings of Americans

11.27.2006 - U.S. Policy in South Asia: R. Nicholas Burns, Under Secretary for Political Affairs, Remarks to the Asia Society, Washington, DC

11.04.2006 - Indo-US relations in the 21st century, by Arvind Vermani in Economic and Political Weekly (PDFO

10.27.2006 - World Bank: India's Demographic Advantage

09.21.2006 - Most Indians think improving relations with US is a good thing: Pew Global Attitudes Project Spring 2006 Survey of six nations

08.18.2006 - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh addresses concerns in India on US-India Civil Nuclear Deal

06.16.2006 - US-India Nuclear Cooperation: A Strategy for Moving Forward
Council on Foreign Relations

06.16.2006 - Lugar Commends India Nuclear Agreement in Commencement Address and Receives 40th Honorary Degree

04.05.2006 - Remarks on the U.S.-India Civil Nuclear Cooperation Initiative
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice at Senate Foreign Relations Committee

03.2006 - Talking Points about US-India Civilian Nuclear Cooperation
USINPAC

03.2006 - India 'Poised to Shoulder Global Obligations'
President Bush in a White House Paper

03.10.2006 - Letter from a group of 28 eminent scholars, diplomats and former US Government officials calling for an endorsement of the India- US civil nuclear cooperation agreement

03.09.2006 - Five Rejoinders to Tom Friedman's faux pas on the US-India Nuclear Agreement

03.08.2006 - India Civil Nuclear Cooperation: Responding to Critics
White House Office of the Press Secretary

03.08.2006 - Implementing India's separation plan
Text of "Implementation of the India-United States Joint Statement of July 18, 2005: India's Separation Plan" tabled in Parliament on March 7, 2006

03.06.2006 - Interview of R. Nicholas Burns, Under Secretary for Political Affairs; Shabana Azmi, Actress and Social Activist
Charlie Rose Show

03.02.2006 - President Discusses Strong U.S.-India Partnership
New Delhi, India

03.02.2006 - George Bush-Manmohan Singh Joint Statement
New Delhi, India

03.02.2006 - United States and India: Strategic Partnership
Fact Sheet

03.02.2006 - President Bush and Prime Minister Singh
Press Releases and Remarks

03.02.2006 - Press Briefing by Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Nick Burns
New Delhi, India

03.02.2006 - State Dept: U.S.-India: Strengthening a Global Partnership

01.22.2006 - President Addresses Asia Society, Discusses India
Address by President Bush to Asia Societybefore March 2006 visit to India

2005

12.21.2005 - Transforming India-US Relations: Forging a Strategic Partnership
Indian Foreign Secretary Mr. Shyam Saran at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

11.2005 - How India, China Redefine the Tech World Order
Navi Radjou (PDF format)

11.2005 - Virmani Index of Power (VIP): Measurement of Global Power Potential of Nations
Dr. Arvind Virmani, Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations

11.30.2005 - U.S., Indian Officials Seek To Advance High-Tech Trade
Meeting of trade group in New Delhi

10.25.2005 - Who's running nuke Wal-Mart, asks Saran
Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi

10.25.2005 - State's Burns Sees Progress on U.S.-India Nuclear Accord in 2006
Under Secretary Burns in Delhi

10.18.2005 - The U.S. and India: The New Strategic Partnership
R. Nicholas BurnsRemarks to the Asia Society, New York City

09.2005 - Natural Allies? Regional Security in Asia and Prospects for Indo-American Strategic Cooperation
Stephen J. Blank, Monograph of Strategic Studies Institute

09.08.2005 - Burns Seeks Congressional Support of US-India Nuclear Deal
Remarks to House International Relations Committee

Summer 2005 - The India Imperative
Article in "The National Interest"
by former Ambassador to India Robert D. Blackwill

07.26.2005 - Energy Trends in China and India: Implications for the US
Dr. Sumit Ganguly testimony to the U.S. Senate

07.20.2005 - Indian Prime Minister Discusses Key Issues
Interview of Indian Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh by Wolf Blitzer, CNN Anchor

07.19.2005 - Engaging India as a Global Strategic Partner
Statement of the Republican Policy Committee

07.19.2005 - 'There is much we can accomplish together'
Speech of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh
Joint session of the United States Congress

07.18.2005 - Programs that will strengthen the partnership between United States and India
US State Department Fact Sheets

07.18.2005 - Bush-Manmohan Summit: Joint Statement
Washington, DC

07.15.2005 - Indo-US Relations in the coming decades
Landmark Address of Strategic Affairs Guru, K. Subrahmanyam

07.2005 - India as a New Global Power: An Action Agenda for the US
Ashley J. Tellis, Carnegie Endowment

07.2005 - India - US Relations: A Vision for the Future
Report of the Joint Task Force of Pacific Council on International Policy and Observer Research Foundation

Update 2005 - Nonproliferation Export Controls in India
Executive Summary, Georgia U. Center for International Trade & Security(PDF format)

Update 2005 - Nonproliferation Export Controls in India
Full Report, Georgia U. Center for International Trade & Security(PDF Format)

06.27.2005 - Defense Minister Pranab Mukherjee Speech
Executive Defense Industry Round Table Lunch

06.27.2005 - Defense Minister Pranab Mukherjee on India's Strategic Perspectives
Address at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

06.24.2005 - Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs R. Nicholas Burns
Remarks to the Press at the Roosevelt House, New Delhi, India

04.14.2005 - Secretary Condi Rice meets Indian Foreign Minister Natwar Singh
Press Conference

03.25.2005 - State Department Briefing: South Asia's Future Vital to US

03.11.2005 - US plays Patriot against Israel's Arrow
Article in India Abroad by Aziz Haniffa

02.2005 - The US-India Relationship: Strategic Partnership or Complementary Interests?
Monograph by Dr. Amit Gupta for the Strategic Studies Institute of the US Army War College

01.17.2005 - Is a solid and comprehensive US-India strategic partnership inevitable?
Presentation made to SAPRA in New Delhi, India
by Ram Narayanan

2004

11.15.2004 - Managing the Differences
Article by former Indian Ambassador to the US Lalit Mansingh
India Today

10.12.2004 - Presidential Candidate Sen. John Kerry: I will recognize the vital global role India will play in the 21st Century
The Rediff Interview
India Abroad, October 15, 2004 (print edition pgs. 1, 6-7)

09.24.2004 - India and the US: Towards a New Partnership
Speech by Dr. Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister of India to the Council of Foreign Relations, New York

09.03.2004 - President Bush Interviewed
by Aziz Haniffa of India Abroad

07.23.2004 - New Indian Ambassador to the United States: Ronen Sen
Interview by India Abroad's Senior Editor Ramananda Sengupta

07.06.2004 - US-India Relations: A Strategic Pause
by Lawrence J. Korb, Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress

06.25.2004 - New Indian Ambassador to the United States: Ronen Sen
George Iype in India Abroad

06.14.2004 - The United States and South Asia: Ashley Tellis
The House Committee on International Relations

06.10.2004 - Transcript of Joint Press Conference: Colin Powell and Natwar Singh

05.20.2004 - Forging a New US-India Engagement
Address by Mukesh Ambani(PDF format)

04.27.2004 - Letter to Senator John Kerry
from Ayesha Nariman, Democratic Candidate for NY's 26th Congressional District

04.06.2004 - India and America: Estranged no more

04.06.2004 - Pakistan, the other Rogue Nation
Article by Sumit Ganguly

03.13.2004 - Future Fire: Challenges Facing Indian Defense Policy in the New Century
Paper by Ashley Tellis of CEIP, Washington, DC (PDF format)

01.29.2004 - New High-Tech Accord will Boost Evolving US-India Strategic Relationship
India Report by Jonh E. Carbaugh, Jr.

01.2004 - Building a Culture of Innovation - The Role of the Intellectual Diaspora
By Zareen Karani Araoz and Alberto Araoz

01.2004 - Next Steps in Strategic Partnership with India
Official Press Release of President George W. Bush

2002

09.2002 - India "a Great Power" says White House Paper
The National Security Strategy of the United States of America

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