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Discuss the significance of Indo-US strategic partnership and its implications for India’s security and national defence.

  • UPSC 2020
  • 15 marks
  • India and the Global Centres of Power

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Addressing the Indian Parliament in November 2010, Barack Obama called the relationship one of the defining partnerships of the century. Its core is a shared interest in an Indo-Pacific not dominated by China, pursued as alignment without alliance. For India it is the main instrument of external balancing, in Kenneth N. Waltz's sense, alongside internal…

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  • Significance of the partnership
  • Implications for security and defence: gains
  • Implications: costs and risks
  • Conclusion
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