Liberal democracies in a globalized world : why have U.S.-India ties, which were at best distant during the cold war, improved during the post-cold war period? What led to the change?

Abstract

The central argument of this paper is to examine the Indo-US relations employing an eclectic approach in trying to explain the relationship not based on one single theoretical approach, but encompassing the Realist and Liberal approaches as political/diplomatic, strategic and economic cooperation is happening simultaneously at a very rapid pace since the post Cold war period. I assert that it is a mix of this complex web of relations at the economic, political/diplomatic and strategic paths that has become the defining feature of cooperation and trust between the two nations. The robustness of USIndia relationship has taken on a new dimension with the United States leading India in becoming a technological and major superpower in an era marked by rapid technological advancement. "It is in this new historical and geo-political context, that U.S. and India are beginning to cooperate seriously in building this 'global partnership