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Before the year 2000, the Indo-U.S. relationship has been marked more with estrangement than cordiality. Why?

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  • India and the Global Centres of Power

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Dennis Kux titled his history India and the United States: Estranged Democracies, 1941–1991 (1992), and Andrew J. Rotter called the two "comrades at odds" (2000). Why did the world's two largest democracies stay apart for half a century? Less from misunderstanding than from incompatible strategic goals under bipolarity, reinforced by rival worldviews, economic distance and…

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  • 1. Bipolarity and the Pakistan factor
  • 2. Rival worldviews
  • 3. Economic distance
  • 4. The nuclear question
  • 5. Never uniformly hostile
  • Assessment
  • …and 1 more sections, with a conclusion
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