High Voltage Politics on a Changing Geopolitical Landscape
Avipsu Halder
FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS: THE INDIA-US STORY by By Seema Sirohi HarperCollins Publishers, India, 2023, 491 pp., INR 699.00
May 2024, volume 48, No 5

The book explores the dynamics of Indo-US relationship in the post-Cold War context. In this endeavour, it has a detailed discussion of the core issues, the major challenges and the mutual perceptions the two countries possess towards each another. Apart from chalking out the regional balance of power configurations in world politics, the book provides a thorough discussion of the reports of leading American dailies to extrapolate the nature of interactions between the world’s two leading democracies. Its chapters encapsulate the basic trends of bilateral relationships at several critical historical junctures since the beginning of the 1990s till the present times. Such an approach enables the reader to understand the visions and policies of the statesmen of not only these two nations but also enlightens us about India’s South Asian neighbourhood.

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