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Long plagued by poverty, India's recent economic growth has vaulted it into the ranks of the world's emerging powers-but what kind of power it wants to be remains a mystery. Cautious Superpower explains why India behaves the way it does, and the role it is likely to play globally as its prominence grows.
List of contents
- PART ONE: LOOKING BACK
- Prologue
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Chapter 2: India and the World
- Chapter 3: Opening to the World
- PART TWO: TRANSITION
- Chapter 4: Seeking India's Rightful Place
- Chapter 5: A Cautious Power
- PART THREE: LOOKING AHEAD
- Chapter 6: India's Changing Global Role
- Chapter 7: A Changing Economic Future?
- Chapter 8: How the United States Should Work with a Rising India
- Epilogue
- Bibliographic Note
- Bibliography
About the author
Alyssa Ayres is senior fellow for India, Pakistan, and South Asia at the Council on Foreign Relations. She served as US deputy assistant secretary of state for South Asia during 2010-2013, and her more than twenty-five years' experience in India and South Asia crosses the government, nonprofit, and private sectors. She has served as project director for two bipartisan task forces on US-India relations, and co-edited three books on India and Indian foreign policy. Her book on nationalism in Pakistan, Speaking Like a State, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2009.
Summary
Long plagued by poverty, India's recent economic growth has vaulted it into the ranks of the world's emerging powers-but what kind of power it wants to be remains a mystery. Cautious Superpower explains why India behaves the way it does, and the role it is likely to play globally as its prominence grows.
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Our Time Has Come is a splendid survey of the possibilities, problems, and prospects associated with India's ascendancy on the global stage. In describing how India is transforming the global order without revisionism, Alyssa Ayres lays bare the uniqueness of India's rise and compellingly argues for a strong U.S. partnership with India to strengthen the liberal international order.
