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two nations lapse back into old habits and suspicions that have made this
relationship a difficult one for so long. Grandiose expectations and overblown
rhetoric do not help.
Washington is now ready to embrace India. But the United States, like all
countries, will determine its policies according to calculations of interest. It is up
to New Delhi to demonstrate to the Americans that it is in their interest to
institutionalize a new and closer partnership with India. Indian actions, at home
as much as abroad, will have a large role in determining the future of this
relationship. Building a vibrant economy, accelerating reform, solidifying
democratic institutions and values, investing in its human and capital
infrastructure, improving relations with its neighbors, meeting the needs and
aspirations of its people: If India takes care of these matters, it will be a success—
and an irresistible partner to the world's sole remaining superpower.
NOTES
This essay, completed in mid-January 2002, covers developments through 2001.
1.
Far Eastern Economic Review,
3 May 2001, p.66.
2.
William B.Saxbe with Peter D.Franklin,
I've Seen the Elephant: An Autobiography
(Kent, OH: Kent State University Press 2000) p.209.
3.
Washington Post,
17 Sept. 2001.
4.
Dennis Kux,
India and the United States: Estranged Democracies
(Washington DC:
National Defense University Press 1992); Andrew J.Rotter,
Comrades at Odds:
The United
States and India, 1947-1964
(Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press
2000); H.W.Brands,
India and the United States: The Cold Peace
(Boston: Twayne
1990).
5.
Sec. 102 (b) of the Arms Export Control Act.
6.
Commentator C.Raja Mohan, writing in
The Hindu,
25 March 2001.
7.
Joint Statement by Prime Minister Vajpayee and President Clinton, 15 Sept. 2000.
8.
Satu P.Lamaye, 'Stuck in a Nuclear Narrative', Pacific Forum CSIS Comparative
Connections, www.csis.org/pacfor/cc/0101Qoa.html.
9.
Or as the American ambassador in New Delhi would later say, the United States
would no longer be 'a nagging nanny'.
Telegraph
editorial, 6 April 2001; Mohan in
The Hindu,
25 March 2001; 'The Future of US-India Relations', speech by US
Ambassador Robert D.Blackwill, 6 Sept. 2001, Mumbai.
10.
Telegraph
editorial, 6 April 2001.
11.
The Hindu,
10 April 2001.
12.
Defense News,
23 April 2001, p.3; Mark W.Frazier, 'Problems and Prospects for
India-China Relations', p.10, manuscript in the author's possession.
13.
The Hindu,
5 May 2001.
14.
The Pioneer,
8 May 2001.
15.
www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2001/index.cfm?docid=4166.
16.
Washington Post,
12 Aug. 2001.
17.
India Abroad,
5 Oct. 2001.
18.
Hindustan Times,
5 Oct. 2001.
