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Washington:
The US can contribute only marginally to India's success or
failure, suggests a US think tank as it advised Washington to
focus on global issues that will also affect India's longer-term
interests.
"Most of what the US government can do for India lies in the
broader global arena, and most of what India needs at home it must
do for itself," says the Washington-based Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace in a new report.
Authored by the think tank's Nuclear Policy Programme Director
George Perkovich, the 54-page report notes that as President
Barack Obama prepares to visit India next month, he faces
criticism that his administration has done too little to enhance
US-India relations.
The report titled "Toward Realistic US-India Relations" argues
that expectations for a partnership between the two countries in
the near term are unrealistically high and overlook how their
interests, policies, and diplomatic style will often diverge.
"US policy cannot do much to help India's rise, but it can inflict
major damage on global problem-solving efforts if it defers too
readily to the narrow, often mercantile demands of the current
relationship," writes Perkovich.
"Rather than maintaining the pretence of partnership, a truly
pro-India policy would acknowledge that India has different
near-term needs and interests as a developing country than does
the United States, even as it recognises that each will benefit in
the long run from the success of the other," he writes.
Key Conclusions:
* Interests are divergent. Careful analysis of the US and Indian
interests does not show a close convergence in some key areas, and
in cases such as China, Pakistan, and Afghanistan, they differ in
how to pursue shared interests even when both states benefit from
each other's successes.
* Democracy can divide. Shared democracy is said to make the US
and India "natural allies", but domestic politics and economics
often keep each state from adopting policies that would befit a
partnership.
* Bilateral relations should not be used to contain China.
Emphasising military competition with China, as some do, is
counterproductive.
* Nuclear energy cannot transform the relationship. The civil
nuclear cooperation agreement between the two countries has not
turned the relationship into a partnership, as envisioned.
But it has undermined US leadership credibility in trying to
strengthen the global non-proliferation regime.
(Arun Kumar can
be contacted at arun.kumar@ians.in)
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