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News Advisory:
S. interests in South Asia continue to expand and cover a broad spectrum of issues, from efforts to combat terrorism and weapons proliferation to human rights protection, economic development, relations between India and Pakistan, and counter narcotics. The linchpin of the Administration's approach appears to be what it recently termed a "new strategy for South Asia," which, among other goals, unambiguously seeks to "help India become a major world power in the 21st century." In addition to bolstering ties with India, other U.S. goals include: preventing a nuclear war on the Subcontinent; discreetly supporting Indo- Pakistani rapprochement; building a stable, long-term relationship with Pakistan; preventing Maoist guerrillas from taking power in Nepal; working to prom...
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...India's imminent emergence as a regional power will like...military and economic assistance; and more than $1.5 billion in non-mili...
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... Plains in South Asia (extending from Pakistan across India to Bangladesh and Myanmar); 3) Indone... disease may also have a quantifiable economic impact, as studies show that the detrimental healt... environment at the Council on Foreign Relations recognized the Copenhagen Accord "a serious step f...
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U.S. strategy toward Pakistan is focused on trying to get Islamabad to give seri...help against India--which Washington also cannot deliver. . The secon... Pakistani state and military, or the relationship between Islamabad and Washington, were to complete.... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] . This economic dynamism is due to two factors above all: the grea...
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... and contribute positively to economic development. Recent studies have highlighted the s... made by immigrant entrepreneurs from India, China, and other countries, to innovation and job...Indians, Pakistanis, and Bangladeshis, were three of the categories id..., we would expect a negative relationship between the reliance on co-ethnic customers and gr...
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With its profusion of languages, ethnic groups and regional diversities, with its unique caste system, with its contrast between information technology and industry billionaires and the nearly 300 million people who live below the poverty line, with its mixture of Mahatma Gandhi's nonviolent philosophy and outbreaks of savage communal violence, and with its success as a parliamentary democracy despite having 400 million people who cannot read or write, India remains a bewilderingly complex country. A powerful moral leader as well as a wily politician, Gandhi wanted Indians to be proud of their past, to wear Indian rather than foreign dress, to challenge their colonial overlords through peaceful protest and noncooperation and not through violence, and to eliminate discrimination against...
... major political, foreign policy and economic developments and trends since 1947. 1. Political a... own separate homeland, to be called Pakistan. Gandhi and other Congress leaders strongly suppor... the decade before 1947, IndiaPakistan relations would have been difficult under any circumstances....
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[...] how did the Pakistani military fare in its counterinsurgency campaigns from 2004-2008 under then-President Pervez Musharraf? [...] the Taliban regime provided sanctuary to al-Qaeda both before and after 9/11.
...Pakistan has decades-long relations with Afghan insurgents, and demands a place at the...-armed face off with congenital archrival India, and wages an increasingly brutal and deadly war a... border with India and towards domestic economic subsidies aimed at reducing opposition to military...
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... estimate of direct and indirect economic losses from terrorism over the decade at $68 billi...Given Pakistan's relationship with China, the same is probably true of U.S. mili... "failing" state but rather very similar to India. . In sum, Hamid's essay is valuable for the brief...
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... of the problem: emissions, energy, and economics. The current approach to climate mitigation focuse...'s Group imposing sanctions on India (and Pakistan) following their nuclear tests, see Sean D. Murphy... for NPT Review, COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS, (May 3, 2010), http://www.cfr.org/publication/220...
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In the summer of 2010, two revelations, of unequal importance and magnitude, illuminated the AmericanPakistani relationship and its complications: a public opinion survey released by the Pew Research Center, on July 29, that delved into the attitudes of the Pakistani public on a wide range of issues (their opinion of the United States, their view of the war next door in Afghanistan, their attitude toward extremist groups, their outlook on the prospects of their country). The Pakistani intellectual and political class was forever convinced that the American patrons were not sufficiently supportive or solicitous of Pakistan, that they withheld from Pakistan sufficient funds and advanced fighter jets, that they sought to diminish Pakistan and reduce it to abject dependence.\n The claim ne...
...IN THE ALLIANCES of the Cold War, India, though a democracy, had g cast its fate with the ...-India relations. Economic liberalization was remaking India. A huge market b...