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Vickery (former Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Trade Development in the Clinton Administration) explores the ways that the US economic engagement with India impacts issues of strategic cooperation, defined broadly to include the traditional issues of defense and military security, as well as other transnational issues such as energy, the environment, economic development, food, and health, and considers possible measures the US government can take to more fully leverage economic engagement in pursuit of strategic interests. Focusing on the period 1991-2010 (India's years of neoliberal economic reform), he explores the ways that economic engagement policies have influenced US-Indian relations on such issues as civil nuclear cooperation, services outsourcing, counter-terrorism, electric power and the environment, a proposed pipeline project from Iran to India, coping with the financial meltdown of 2008, food security, and the fight against HIV/AIDS. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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The Eagle and the Elephant shows how economic engagement directly affects how the United States cooperates with India on strategic issues. Through case studies of major efforts, including civil nuclear cooperation, services outsourcing, antiterrorism, and electricity generation and the environment, Raymond E. Vickery Jr. presents both successful and unsuccessful instances of complex collaborations between the two nations. Vickery draws on his own experience in the Commerce Department and as an economic consultant. Buttressed by information from official sources, journalistic accounts, and interviews, he offers new insight into the interplay of legislative and executive branch officials, policy proponents, business and nonprofit organizations, and activists.Vickery explores how the United States employs commercial diplomacy as only one component of an overall economic engagement in the formation and implementation of foreign policy. This interaction, Vickery argues, has the potential to increase intergovernmental confidence and cooperation in areas vital to both countries and to world security and peace.
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