Strategy for the Second Wave: Learning from India’s Experience with HIV/AIDS
A report by Teresita C. Schaffer and Pramit Mitra on the conference conducted by the Center for Strategic & International Studies on September 9, 2004, in conjunction with the CSIS Task Force on...
View ArticleIndia on the Move
A review by Teresita C. Schaffer of Strategic Consequences of India’s Economic Performance, by Sanjaya Baru. His basic argument is that economic strength is a critical element of national power and...
View ArticleIndia: Fitting HIV/AIDS into a Public Health Strategy
A report by Teresita C. Schaffer, Pramit Mitra and Vibhuti Hate on the Task Force on HIV/AIDS, as directed by the Center for Strategic & International Studies. India’s citizens may share one time...
View ArticleIndia: Politics Drowning Policy
Teresita and Howard Schaffer report March 7, 2011 on their findings in India: In a two-week swing through India in mid-February, we found a government overwhelmed by sweetheart deals and scandals and...
View ArticleIndia: Killing the Messenger, Ignoring the Message
India: Killing the Messenger, Ignoring the Message April 9, 2011: Three recent episodes, seemingly unrelated: November 29, 2009: Reuters reported that Indian officials were investigating the leak of a...
View ArticleCleaning Up India’s Culture of Sleaze
Scam-o-ramas erupting across India have transfixed public debate in India, leading to a popular social movement, in the Gandhian tradition, aimed at ending corruption. It has been a heady and exciting...
View ArticleIndia as a Rising Power
Gurgaon. Photo by seaview 99, http://www.flickr.com/photos/85296574@N00/530891572/sizes/m/in/photostream/ With more than a billion citizens, a thriving economy and a rapidly modernizing military, India...
View ArticlePolio Eradication in India: To the Verge of Victory – and Beyond
CSIS Schaffer_PolioIndia_110 India’s struggle against major health challenges in the past few decades has been a white-knuckle ride, with India illustrating some of the best as well as the worst of the...
View ArticleThe Kashmir Interlocutors Report – But Who Will Listen?
By Jenny Mackness, http://www.flickr.com/photos/53375223@N00/5172641938/sizes/m/in/photostream/ June 1, 2012: In the summer of 2010, riots of youth throwing stones and calling for “azadi” – freedom...
View ArticleBook reviews: Boo, Inskeep and Berenschot on South Asian Cities
Mumbai, from Flickr, http://www.flickr.com/photos/cactusbones/4392053621/sizes/m/in/photostream/ Katherine Boo’s Behind the Beautiful Forevers is an unforgettable walk through the Annawadi...
View ArticleIndia’s Sagging Economy – Strategic Consequences
Photo from flickr, http://www.flickr.com/photos/8458252@N05/3425108634/in/photolist September 20, 2013: Two decades of rapid economic growth and surging international trade gave India the economic and...
View ArticleIndia: Modi’s International Profile
Photo from Al Jazeera English, http://www.flickr.com/photos/aljazeeraenglish/3479447773/sizes/m/in/photolist December 9, 2013: In the tremendous buzz that has attended Narendra Modi’s emergence as the...
View ArticleDelhi Snapshot: Tale of Two Elections
photo from flickr, http://www.flickr.com/photos/bensutherland/3535769512/sizes/m/in/photolist February 10, 2014: Delhi is completely absorbed by two elections – December’s surprise win at the state...
View ArticleIndia: Huge Election Shakeup
Photo from Al Jazeera English, http://www.flickr.com/photos/aljazeeraenglish/3479447773/sizes/m/in/photolist May 16, 2014: The “Modi wave” in the just-completed Indian elections was bigger than almost...
View ArticleStarting Strong: Modi’s First Month
Modi swearing-in, https://www.flickr.com/photos/presidentrajapaksa/14278130922/ June 19, 2014: The first thirty days after Narendra Modi’s swearing-in as Indian prime minister set a breathtaking pace....
View ArticleModi’s India: A View from Washington
(This article is adapted from remarks by Teresita Schaffer to the International Institute of Strategic Studies, Oslo, September 20, 2014.) Photo from flickr,...
View ArticleModi in America:Economics as Strategy
Flickr, https://www.flickr.com/photos/narendramodiofficial/12984116975/in/photolist Narendra Modi’s first official visit to Washington was set up before he had even been sworn in as prime minister, in...
View ArticleIndia and the WTO: A Reprieve
https://www.flickr.com/photos/nznationalparty/8204752942/in/photolist https://www.flickr.com/photos/narendramodiofficial/15587372910/in/photolist November 13, 2014: The announcement November 13 that...
View ArticleIndia and its South Asian Neighbors: Where does the U.S. Fit In?
https://www.flickr.com/photos/122179612@N02/15223107349/in/photolist Read my article in the Brookings U.S.-India Policy Memo, January 20, 2015. In seven months in office, Prime Minister Narendra Modi...
View ArticleIndia’s Sagging Economy – Strategic Consequences
Photo from flickr, http://www.flickr.com/photos/8458252@N05/3425108634/in/photolist September 20, 2013: Two decades of rapid economic growth and surging international trade gave India the economic and...
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