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October 30, 2008 | From Tiananmen on: What Have We Learned?

There is a lesson to be learned from the West’s decision to integrate China into its fold following Tiananmen Square. ++ While China is still ruled by the same horrific party responsible for the Cultural Revolution, it is “a far cry from the Mao Zedong era.” ++ By applying the same “global liberalizing influences” to Russia, all will benefit from closer “peace

September 23, 2008 | Welcoming India to the Nuclear Club

India and the US are celebrating their new nuclear deal this week. ++ Critics fear an unraveling of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. ++ Notwithstanding, India will be one of the great world powers and there is an unfortunate, yet undeniable link between power and nuclear weapons. ++ Although it may be hypocritical to permit India and sanction Iran, India is a status quo power and a settled

September 9, 2008 | US-Indian Nuclear Deal is Ill-Conceived

In order to achieve at least one of its foreign policy goals, the Bush administration insisted on the international approval of the nuclear deal with India. ++ The world can sell nuclear fuel to India; however, the action was ill-conceived. ++ The US did not get India’s word that it will stop producing bomb-making material. ++ Moreover, the US effort to pressure Iran to abandon its nuclear

July 10, 2008 | Strategic Miscalculation: US-Indian Nuclear Deal

Even though India hasn’t signed the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and has not permitted inspections of its nuclear plants, Bush’s administration is hastening to close a US-Indian “civilian nuclear deal.” ++ While telling Congress the deal could bring India into the nonproliferation fold, American diplomats assure India it can still test with impunity. ++ In fact, India is

June 25, 2008 | India's Reluctance to US Nuclear Deal is Disarming

India’s domestic political squabbles are hindering its nuclear program with the US. ++ Afraid that scrupulous international monitoring would undermine India’s traditionally independent foreign policy, the Communist component of the current coalition is blocking a final endorsement. ++ Politicians on both sides of the Atlantic are baffled, as this deal is nothing but advantageous. ++

June 6, 2007 | Somini Sengupta on the Fragile State of the U.S-India Nuclear Deal

The US-India nuclear deal might be at risk, argues Sengupta in an article for the World Security Network. The countries are particularly divided over two issues:

1. Granting India permission to carry out further nuclear tests and changing its status to a ‘nuclear weapons state’.
2. Reprocessing spent nuclear fuels. The US worries that spent fuel might be used for the production of