Issue 16 - July 2008 - Community Edition (3.8 MB)
Nitin Pai
Dear reader,
Foreign policy at the crossroads---for India, which needs leadership and a renaissance in the way it conducts its foreign affairs; and for the United States, as it contemplates its own role in a rapidly changing world. You will find these issues covered in the July 2008 issue of Pragati - The Indian National Interest Review. In addition, we also initiate a debate on whether Indian companies should care about the national interest when they invest abroad. This month's cover story, an in-depth piece on the broad contours of India-Israel relations, discusses bilateral co-operation in agriculture, defence and high-technology areas.
The two articles in the round-up section also cover agriculture and food security policy---and new ways of thinking about them.
And lastly, in the books section, you will find a review of We are like that only Rama Bijapurkar's new book on the Indian consumer.
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best regards
The Pragati team
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ISSUE CONTENTS
"Adamant for drift, solid for fluidity"
India needs leadership and a renaissance in its foreign policy
Harsh V Pant?
Business interests vs national interests
As Indian companies grow abroad
Sameer Wagle & Gaurav Sabnis
The myth of illiberal capitalism
Multi-polarity, democracy and what the US might do about them
Dhruva Jaishankar
FILTER
A survey of think-tanks
The post-American world; Asian geopolitics
Vijay Vikram
IN DEPTH
The India-Israel imperative
Indo-Judeo commonalities: the symbolic and the substantive
Martin Sherman
ROUNDUP
Fruits of knowledge
Apply knowledge-economy processes for food security
Mukul G Asher & Amarendu Nandy
Needed: A new monsoon strategy
The focus should be on groundwater recharge
Tushaar Shah
BOOKS
Know your consumer?
A review of Rama Bijapurkar's We are like that only
Aadisht Khanna