| ID | 154773 |
| Title Proper | Optimising India–US maritime-strategic convergence |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Khurana, Gurpreet S |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | The current trajectory of India–US relations is encouraging, but needs to be sustained by optimising their maritime-strategic convergence. In the maritime-configured Indo-Pacific region, the two countries could undertake substantive ‘transactions’ in the domain of geopolitics and military-strategic cooperation. In this context, the article examines four key aspects: the ‘restrictiveness’ and ‘permissiveness’ of India’s cornerstone policy of ‘strategic autonomy’; the emerging imperative for their navies to go beyond ‘combined exercises’ to ‘combined operations’; their joint efforts to uphold established norms and tenets of international law, while also recognising their nuanced differences on the interpretation of the law; and to progress defence trade and defence-industry cooperation. The article concludes with specific recommendations on each of these key aspects. |
| `In' analytical Note | Strategic Analysis Vol. 41, No.5; Sep-Oct 2017: p.433-446 |
| Journal Source | Strategic Analysis Vol: 41 No 5 |
| Key Words | India–US Maritim ; Strategic Convergence |