America
Narendra Modi: The global pragmatist
Brahma Chellaney
Seven features of Modi’s non-doctrinaire foreign policy that is taking India from non-alignment to multi-alignment
Impressions of the Indian strategic debate
Is India aiming to evolve from being a balancing power to being a leading power?
Experiments in Meritocracy
Amy Chua’s controversial new book suggests ‘outsiders’ can and do succeed in unequal America—but at what cost?
America’s Plastic Revival
Even with the increase in petrochem production, prices may not come down too much
Snapping a Crude Link
America’s gas renaissance could spell cheaper gas for energy-starved economies even in Asia
America’s New Iran Strategy
The goal of America’s latest sanctions is to reduce Iran’s export earnings drastically while shielding the global economy from oil price spikes
Has Pankaj Mishra Ever Been to South Dakota?
For a writer whose first book was a travelogue around small-town India, Pankaj Mishra seems strangely unwilling to engage with the complexities, or provincialities, of the United States. In his recent scathing review of Harvard historian Niall Ferguson’s book Civilisation: The West and the Rest, as in his other writings, Mishra seems interested in America only to the extent that he can caricature its ruling elite in order to knock them down, says Ethan Casey
(Fading) Superpower Games
America has taken upon itself this last decade to reshape the world in its own disfigured image. Will it spend the next decade recoiling from the result?
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