Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction - Y K Malik and Ashok Kapur
India and America - Engaging Each Other in a Changing World
US-India Science and Technology Relations - Aqueil Ahmad
A Socio-Political Analysis
India and America - N Gerald Barrier
A Half Century of Academic and Scholarly Exchange, 1947-99
Policy Retaliation and Inefficiency - S N Gajanan and S Radhakrishnan
The Reasons Why - Harold A Gould
The US Failure to Control the Nuclear Agenda in South Asia
Indo-US Srategic Worldviews - Steven Hoffman
Two Disengaged Culture, Two Distant Democracies - R S Khare
Anthropological Notes on Indian and American Political Ethos
Military Relations between the US and India - David J Louscher, Alethia H Cook and Victoria D Barto
Assessment and Prospects
India-US Economic Relations - Prem P Gandhi
A Perspective
US Economic Sanctions against Nuclear India - Baldev Raj Nayar
Implications for Economic Liberalism and Democratic Peace Theory
Coming of Age - Robert M Hathaway
Indian-Americans and the US Congress
Legislative Perceptions of Indo-American Relations - Arthur G Rubinoff
Ideals or Self-Interest? The Indian Nuclear Deterrent and American Foreign Policy - James Sperling
Indo-US Relations and the Kashmir Issue - Reeta Chowdhari Tremblay
Index

About the Author

Born in Lahore, Ashok Kapur had his early schooling in Shimla and then he went on to earn a BA Honours degree in Political Science from Panjab University, India, and MA in International Relations from The George Washington University, Washington, DC, and a PhD degree in Political Science from Carleton University, Canada. He is the author of several notable books such as Pokhran and Beyond, 2nd edition, Pakistan’s Nuclear Development, India and the South Asian Strategic Triangle and India’s Strategic Problems. His research and conference travels include visits to countries such as China, India, United Kingdom, United States, USSR, Iran, South Africa, Sweden, Norway, Israel and Pakistan. He taught foreign policy at the University of Waterloo, Canada, for 35 years and retired from the University as a Distinguished Professor Emeritus, a position he still holds. Ashok Kapur has held visiting appointments at several universities, including a Visiting Fellow, Department of International Relations, Australian National University, Canberra; Visiting Professor in Disarmament Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi; Senior Associate Member, St. Antony’s College, Oxford; Visiting Fellow, Centre for Security, University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA; Visiting Fellow, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London, UK. He was also a member of the United Nations Committee to study Israel’s nuclear capability.

Harold A. Gould is a Visiting Professor in the Center for South Asian Studies at the University of Virginia. Previous to that he was Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for Asian Studies at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana. He received his Ph.D. in Anthropology at Washington University of St. Louis in 1959. Since going to India on a Fulbright Scholarship in 1954–1955, Dr Gould has made numerous research trips to India (with grants from the National Science Foundation, the National Institute of Mental Health, the American Institute of Indian Studies, and the University of Illinois Research Board); he spent more than a total of ten years in the country spread over more than fifty years. His research and scholarly publications encompass every facet of Indian society and civilization that is relevant for a social scientist/social historian, including rural society, social stratification, local-level politics, electoral processes, and national and international politics.

Arthur G Rubinoff is Professor in the Department of Political Science, University of Toronto.