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The Second Modi-Obama Summit:

Building the India-U.S. Partnership

JANUARY 2015

BROOKINGS INDIA CENTER

BROOKINGS INDIA PROJECT

The Second Modi-Obama Summit

Building the India-U.S. Partnership

JANUARY 2015

Table of Contents

Preface

1

Introduction

3

Geopolitics & Geoeconomics

India and its South Asian Neighbors: Where does the U.S. fit in? Teresita C. Schaffer

7

Risky Business: The U.S. turns back to the Middle East Tamara Wittes

11

The U.S.-India Relationship and China Tanvi Madan

13

China's Economic Challenges: Implications for India and the U.S. David Dollar

17

China's Domestic Dynamics: Implications for India and the U.S. Cheng Li

19

India-U.S. Relationship: From Promise To Practice

Economic Ties: A Window of Opportunity for Deeper Engagement Eswar Prasad

25

Intellectual Property Rights: Signs of Convergence Subir Gokarn

27

Strengthening India ?U.S. Relations through Higher Education Shamika Ravi

31

Primary Education in India: Progress and Challenges Urvashi Sahni

35

Enhancing U.S.-India Defense Cooperation Stephen Cohen & Michael O'Hanlon

39

Strengthening Counter Terrorism Cooperation Against Growing Turmoil Bruce Riedel 43

Time to Act on U.S.-India Energy Cooperation Charles Ebinger & Vikram Mehta

47

Operationalizing U.S.-India Civil Nuclear Cooperation Robert Einhorn & W.P.S. Sidhu 51

India and Climate Change: Reversing the Development-Climate Nexus Rahul Tongia

54

Delivering on the Promise of India's Smart Cities Amy Liu & Robert Puentes

58

Biographies

62

Preface

Less than two months after their first summit in September 2014, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in an unprecedented gesture, invited President Barack Obama to be the chief guest at India's 66th Republic Day on January 26, 2015. This is the first time an American president has been invited in this capacity. With his acceptance of that invitation, President Obama will become the first U.S. president to visit India twice during his time in office. The Republic Day rendezvous sets the stage for the second Modi-Obama summit in less than six months. If the first summit was a leadership moment for India and the United States, then the second summit offers an opportunity to deepen the relationship further and take it to the next level. As the two leaders prepare to meet in New Delhi in January, the Brookings India Initiative, which consists of the Brookings India Centre in New Delhi and the India Project at Brookings in Washington DC, decided to focus on key issues that were highlighted in the September joint statement and are crucial to strengthening the bilateral relationship. Taking advantage of the breadth of expertise available at Brookings and reflecting the interest in India among its scholars, this policy brief contains 16 memos by over twenty Brookings scholars. We have divided these memos into three sections. The introduction offers an overall perspective on the current state of the India-U.S. relationship. The next section presents "scene-setter" memos that offer glimpses of some crucial geopolitical and geoeconomic issues, their inclusion reflecting the fact that each country's perceptions and actions vis-?-vis these subjects will have implications for the other, as well as for the India-U.S. relationship. The third section covers a range of issues on which India and the U.S. are or need to be cooperating, including in the foreign, security, economic, energy, urban and social policy realms. This briefing book is a follow-up to The Modi-Obama Summit: A Leadership Moment for India and the United States, which the Brookings India Initiative published for the first Modi-Obama summit in September 2014.

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Brookings does not take institutional positions on policy issues and each memo in this policy brief solely reflects the views of the Brookings scholar(s) who authored it.

We are very grateful to the Brookings India Initiative Founders Circle for their generous support of Brookings work on and in India. Brookings recognizes that the value it provides to any supporter is in its commitment to quality, independence, and impact. Activities supported by its donors reflect this commitment and scholars' analyses and recommendations are not determined by any donation.

STROBE TALBOTT, President The Brookings Institution

TANVI MADAN, Director, The India Project & Fellow, Foreign Policy The Brookings Institution

VIKRAM SINGH MEHTA, Chairman Brookings India

W.P.S. SIDHU, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Brookings India

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