Authors
Balvinder Singh
Abstract
India and the United States are relishing progressively warm bilateral relationships. U.S.-India consensual relationships have advanced into a "universally considered enterprise", which is grounded on common democratic standards and growing junction of benefits on global, bilateral, and regional affairs, which shows the transformation of two countries past relationship. Soon as the cold war ended, the modification in bilateral relation of India and US was stemmed from a union of domestic, individual, and structural governance aspects. Good governance of both the countries created opportunities to strengthen bilateral ties. Currently, the U.S.- India consensual collaboration is extensively grounded and multiple sectorial, including skill and capital, security and defense, schooling, technology and science, space knowledge and applications, clean dynamics, environment, agriculture and health. The Energetic interaction of person-to-person and sustenance through the administrative gamut within the two nations would cultivate good joint relation. This paper studies main objective and highlight the issues which affects the relation of both countries. Keywords: India-US, Bilateral Ties, Relationship, Cold War
Introduction
The two countries enjoying amazing levels of cooperation in the economic, strategic, and diplomatic spheres. The United States and India shares all-time high relationship.
In Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s words, India and the U.S. “share the common goal of making this one of the principal relationships of our countries” And Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns predicts that “within a generation many Americans may view India as one of our two or three most important strategic partners.”
The relation of India and U.S. have not always been so cozy. The closeness of two countries truly represent a major transformation of their past relationship. Both the countries shared a number of important interests and values, their relationship was historically characterized more by doubt and bitterness than by cooperation. (Kapur and Ganguly, 2007). In the Era of Cold War (1945-1990) the relations of India and US have gone through lots of up and downs.
In 1962 during India- china war the US President Kennedy, had supported India, on the other side in 1965 and in 1971 during Indo-Pak war the US had criticized India’s stand against Pakistan.
In 1974, when India conducted nuclear explosion US with other counterpart (western European countries) imposed strong economic sanctions against India.
In cold war the ideological clashes of two superpowers (US and USSR), US was strategically in opposite camp to India. Further the defense relation of US and Pakistan-US and strategic relation of India-USSR had weakened the Indo-US bilateral relations. Moreover, India’s non-alignment policy was not liked by the US (Balwinder Singh, 2017)
In 2000, US President Clinton visited India and the dialogue of Vajpayee-Clinton had changed dynamics of Indo-US historic relationship. Indian Prime Minister Vajpayee called Indo-US relations as a ’natural ally’. The easy going defense relation was started by the Clinton administration but the serious steps are taken by the Bush administration towards US defense cooperation with India. The new height of relation was touched by Indo-US during the Bush era and Bush Junior called pro-India President in US history. India occupied most important position in US foreign policy when the Bush administration considered India as an emerging economic and military power.
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