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Alyssa Ayres was deputy director of the Center for the Advanced Study of India at the University of Pennsylvania as well as managing editor of the journal India Review. Dr. Ayres has been a fellow at the Franke Institute of the University of Chicago, assistant director for South and Central Asia policy programs at the Asia Society, and in the mid-1990s she worked for the International Committee of the Red Cross in Kashmir. Dr. Ayres has coedited two volumes in the Asia Society’s India Briefing series, including India Briefing: Takeoff at Last? (ME Sharpe, 2005), and her essays have appeared in Current History, India Review, the Belfer Center’s Studies in International Security series, Routledge’s Strategic Studies series, and the Wall Street Journal. A cultural historian of modern South Asia, Dr. Ayres has carried out research in India, Pakistan, and Indonesia and is completing a book on nationalism and language in Pakistan. She received an AB in Indian studies from Harvard College, and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago.
March 13, 2006
Video
Watch South Asia experts discuss President George W. Bush's March 2006 trip to India and the ramifications of the U.S.-India nuclear agreement.
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March 13, 2006
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Ashley Tellis, who helped craft the recent civil nuclear pact between India and the United States, discusses the pros and cons of the deal with Salman Haidar, a former senior Indian foreign service member, and Michael Krepon, founder and president of the Henry L. Stimson Center.
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March 13, 2006
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Listen to South Asia experts discuss President George W. Bush's March 2006 trip to India and the ramifications of the U.S.-India nuclear agreement.
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