This paper from the German Marshall Fund of the United States examines China’s growing power and its impact on US relations with India. The paper argues that the US has an enormous stake in the success of a rich, confident, democratic India that shares American ambitions to manage Chinese power, protect Indian Ocean sea lanes, safeguard an open international economy, and stabilize a volatile region encompassing the heartland of jihadist extremism in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

The Center for Strategic and International Studies has issued a backgrounder on India's domestic and foreign energy policies.

The Congressional Research Service has released a report on India-Iran relations and how they affect India-U.S. relations.

This report from the East-West Center focuses on efforts to develop India’s poorest rural areas as the overall economy picks up speed. It concludes that success in rural development efforts in India is vital to maintaining support for economic reforms and sustaining the nation's growth.

Pankaj Mishra takes issue with the Foreign Affiairs article that states "India is a roaring capitalist success story," claiming that India is plagued by massive poverty and communist insurrections.

This report of the HIV/AIDS Task Force of the Center for Strategic and International Studies concludes that HIV/AIDS is one of the major question marks hanging over India's promising future. It says the problem will require substantially more resources than are currently available, and that as in other countries, the response to HIV/AIDS cannot rely only on medical means and instruments but must include the social dimension as well.

In Technology Commerce Society Daily, Val MacQueen points out that Indians are the most optimistic consumers in the world, which reflects their country's direction.

An assessment of the major issues facing Congress in light of the nuclear deal the United States recently struck with India.

This report provides background on India's nuclear fuel cycle, a discussion of various issues involved in separating civilian and military nuclear facilities and potential concerns for Congress as it considers whether the United States has adequate assurances that its nuclear cooperation does not assist, encourage, or induce India's nuclear weapons development, production, or proliferation.

There's a new outsourcing boom in South Asia - and a billion people are jockeying for the jobs. How India became the global hot spot for drug trials.

This study from the East-West Center evaluates the economic consequences of globalization for India. It argues that India has been a significant beneficiary of the globalization process.

Center for Nonproliferation Studies. India and the New Look of U.S. Nonproliferation Policy.

The old football adage "You can't tell the players without a program" applies increasingly to the international politics of nonproliferation. Gone are the days when the United States routinely lined up on the side of those pursuing the goal of halting and reversing the spread of nuclear weapons. This change in Washington's nonproliferation game plan has been underway for some time, but was most clearly expressed in the July 18, 2005 India-U.S. Joint Statement. This extraordinary document, which reverses more than a quarter century of U.S. declaratory policy, suggests that the national security team of George W. Bush regards nuclear proliferation to be both inevitable and not necessarily a bad thing.

The India Imperative by Robert D. Blackwill. National Interest, Summer 2005

What are the origins of the transformation of U.S.-Indian relations?

No bilateral relationship in George W. Bush's first term improved as much as that between the United States and India. The president has noted, "After years of estrangement, India and the United States together surrendered to reality. They recognized an unavoidable fact--they are destined to have a qualitatively different and better relationship than in the past." Some attribute the expansion in relations to the impact of 9/11. But this is not the case...

CFR and Aspen Institute India have cosponsored a U.S.-India Joint Study Group to identify the shared national interests that motivate the United States and India.

CFR and the Aspen Institute India announced the formation of the U.S.-India Joint Group on shared national interests.

If Congress does not approve the U.S.-India nuclear deal, “it would damage the bilateral relationship,” concludes a new Special Report. Congress should adopt a two-stage approach: formally endorsing the deal’s basic framework, while delaying final approval until it is assured that critical nonproliferation needs are met.