The America Issue

A New Beginning

Richard Rossow

Donald Trump’s visit hopes to build on the practical nature of bilateral economic and security ties

We Are All Calibans Today

Kaveree Bamzai

The culture of Americanisation

What’s the Deal?

Ullekh NP and Siddharth Singh

It is in India’s interest to heed America’s desire for a larger trade pact

Who’s Afraid of Pax Americana?

Sudeep Paul

The shape of the world tomorrow hinges on the strategic choices the US makes today

Mimic Nation

Madhavankutty Pillai

India’s ambivalent relationship with technology and business has made us perpetual consumers to US producers

America was the New Jerusalem. It is still the Promised Land. That is not a complete picture but it is how the America we know began. From Henry James’ wilderness with ‘nothing’ in it, the US quickly grew to lead the world, economically, militarily and intellectually. A big country, a lot of things have happened in its brief timeline, and everything has mattered. Below is a list of 10 books, fiction and non-fiction, that span most of the country’s history as the ‘United’ States of America and explain how it was made—and continues to be remade

Trusting in Trump

Brahma Chellaney

The strengthening American ties with democratic India have assumed greater geopolitical importance for Washington, given that US policies in this century have counterproductively fostered a partnership between the world’s largest nuclear power, Russia, and the world’s second-largest economy, China