November/December 2012

At World Affairs, we look for points of interest in the familiar and the remote, in the collision between received wisdom about the international scene and facts our writers find on the ground. Some of the truths our writers find are arcane. Some seem to have been staring us in the face for a long time. This is certainly the case with India, as Shehzad Qazi reminds us in his excellent tour d’horizon of our developing relationship with the second most populous country in the world—and increasingly audacious competitor to China, the first. The transformation of India into a key potential American ally, a topic du jour among policymakers, has been happening steadily, although often silently and in slow motion, for decades. ... Read More