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ID:
153994
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In many ways, 2016 was a year of reckoning for India's national security and foreign policy grand strategy. On the domestic front, the year marked the completion of 25 years of India's economic liberalization project. It also marked the halfway point for Prime Minister Narendra Modi's term in office, whose government was elected to power with a dramatic popular mandate. Modi had been elected principally on his promise to reform the Indian economy and to remove the final institutional hurdles that have stood in the way of a complete transition to a market economy.
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153986
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The economic and governance challenges facing China are well known. Economic growth has slowed from the dramatic double-digit increases of the past three decades to levels below seven percent. Debt levels reached 250 percent of national GDP in 2015, and could climb to 283 percent by 2020.
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153988
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On a summer night in late August 2001, the United States launched a massive surprise assault on al-Qaeda and Taliban targets in Afghanistan. Moments after the bombs and cruise missiles stopped falling, elite special-forces commandos landed at Osama bin Laden's Tarnak Farms camp, killing bin Laden and dozens of his lieutenants. As the commandos' helicopters took off from the devastated camp, they carried a massive haul of valuable intelligence—al-Qaeda records, hard drives, and cell phones used by the terrorists.
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ID:
153985
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The war on terrorism is enduring and expanding. U.S. forces have been fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan for over fifteen years, the longest armed conflict in American history. President Obama campaigned against the war in Iraq, and U.S. forces briefly withdrew from that country, but he left office with over 5,000 Americans deployed there to fight the Islamic State.
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ID:
153993
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The noted Indian foreign policy analyst, C. Raja Mohan, in a 2015 book, Modi's World: Expanding India's Sphere of Influence, argued that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had ushered in a “third republic” in terms of the conduct of India's foreign policy. His basic argument was that Modi had fundamentally reinvigorated India’s foreign policy, finally shedding many of the shibboleths that had previously hobbled the country's foreign policy choices. Among these, of course, was the hoary commitment to nonalignment and then its subsequent incarnation, “strategic autonomy.” He also contended that India was now in the process of dispensing with the visceral, reflexive anti-American streak that had long characterized its foreign policy.
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ID:
153995
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As a matter of policy, Washington has in recent years encouraged India to take a greater role in regional security. After years of warming bilateral relations, in 2009 then-Secretary of Defense Robert Gates announced that the United States would “look to India to be a partner and net provider of security in the Indian Ocean and beyond.”
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153989
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Governments around the world are transforming themselves to meet the challenges of the cyber era. Israel is at the tip of the spear: its model brings tangible results, its best practices serve as an example to be emulated, and by distributing knowledge it has positioned itself as a source of learning to other nations. The United States, a global cyber leader in resources, science, and technology, has been highly impressed by the progress of the Israeli cyber community, learning its path, listening to its cyber leaders, and adhering to their vision.
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ID:
153983
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Why have nuclear weapons not been used since 1945? The more time passes, the more the question becomes relevant and even puzzling for pessimists. Most strategists of the 1960s would be stunned to hear that as of 2017, there still has yet to be another nuclear use in anger.
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ID:
153981
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Few foreign policy issues have attracted more recent attention than the fate of the post-war liberal international order. There is abundant evidence that its norms and institutions have helped stabilize world politics and promote U.S. interests.
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ID:
153980
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In Western democracies, the political center is straining to hold. A nationalist, populist surge has driven the United Kingdom to vote to leave the European Union; has elected Donald Trump, who ran on a commitment to dismantle the U.S.-led liberal order; and is motivating the rise of right-wing nationalist politicians in Europe such as Marine Le Pen, who if elected as the French president could have sounded the death knell of European integration.
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