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India
and
the
US
A CloserStrategicRelationship?
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42nd ANNUALCONFERENCEOF
THE INDIANECONOMETRIC
SOCIETY(TIES)
ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS
The 42nd Annual Conference of the IndianEconometric Society is scheduled to
be held at Guru Nanak Dev University,Amritsarfrom 5th to 7th January, 2006.
Allthose who are interested in submittingpapers for the Conference should send
the full paper and the abstract of the paper (300 words) along with a diskette
containing the abstract and paper to the Convener, Programme Committee at
the following address:
Dr. K. R. Shanmugam
(Convener, Programme Committee, TIES)
Madras School of Economics
Gandhi Mandapam Road, Chennai - 600 025
Phone : 044 2230 0304 (0); 2495 6935(R)
: 044 2235 4847 Email : shanmugam@mse.ac.in
Fax
and 1 copy to the President of the society: Dr. Atul Sarma, Vice Chancellor,
Arunachal University, Rono Hills, Itanagar - 791 111. More informationcan be
obtained at http://www.tiesindia.net.(Authors can submit papers through the
website also.)
The last date forsubmission of papers is 15th October2005. Communicationabout
the acceptance of papers will be conveyed to the authors in the first week of
November 2005.
Membersare requested to communicatechange of address, ifany, to the Secretary,
TIES, at the earliest.
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Secretary, (TIES)
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existing US obligations to domestic nonproliferationandexportcontrol laws, multilateralnuclear supplier groups (NSG), and
upholding an un-amended Nuclear NonProliferationTreaty(NPT) presently under
review at the United Nations. The Bush
Administration,which encouragesresearch
into new nuclear weapons for US defence
if not yet testing them, seems willing to
'welcome India into the nuclear club',9
but has not yet found a way of doing so
despite lifting all sanctions imposed in
1998. There is some intellectual ferment
on the subject. Former US ambassador to
India Robert Blackwill suggests: "The US
should integrate India into the evolving
global nonproliferationregime as a friendly
nuclear weapons state...We should end
constraints(on assistanceandcooperation),
changing laws and policy when necessary."10 Both the NDA and UPA governments in India have done more than
emphasise India's excellent record in nonproliferation and the minimum nature of
its nuclear deterrent. They have engaged
in sustained dialogues with the US and the
EU over the last few years in order to
harmonise classifications of dual-use
materialsandtechnologies andhave passed
laws to tighten India's own export control
regime. Implementingrulesandregulations
fairly presents difficulties for all countries,
including the US and India,especially with
a multiplication of private firms in the
market,and can cause much publicised but
unnecessary friction. The larger difficulty
in terms of cementing US-India
is thatintra-bureaucratic
wranpartnership
gling in each country,the continuinginfluenceof thosetermed'non-proliferation
ayatollahs'in theUS governingestablishment, and the constantIndiansensitivity
to westernslights,intrusions,or erosions
of sovereignty,could retardthe whole
process.Forexample,Blackwill'ssuggestion of membershipin the US-sponsored
ProliferationSecurityInitiative(PSI)that
includescallingfor spot check andinterdictionof suspiciousshipson thehighseas
mayor maynotattractIndiaas yet;verbal
Indianassuranceson safeguardingor not
producingfurtherfissilematerialsmaynot
satisfytheUS withoutexplicitlegalagreement on the subject.We shoulddemand
skilled navigationtowardacknowledged
commongoalsbetweenextremepositions
on either side. In any case, a mutually
acceptableandinternationally
recognised
agreementon the nuclearissue is a prerequisitefor progressto be madeon the
substantialproposalsmade at the state
department
briefingonMarch25, thisyear.
Impediments
Bureaucratic,cultural,perceptual,and
psychologicalfactors could stall movement toward partnership.They create
impedimentseven in the two most successfulandfastestgrowingareasof IndoUS interaction,
economicandmilitary,but
spacepermitsonly briefmentionof these.
For example, most Americans have a
conceptualblankwithrespectto India;old
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Notes
1 Word used by Dennis Kux to describe USIndia relations, Estranged Democracies, the
Centre-State
Relations
A Returnof Old Suspicions
The recent conclave of districtmagistratesin the capital, organised
at the centre's behest, was summonedto ostensiblydiscuss issues of
developmentadministrationand optimisingthe deliverysystem.
However, by its careless bypassingof state governments,the
centre's gesture has given vent to old suspicions,first aired two
decades ago, to raise their heads once again.
ASHOKMITRA
Indiacouldhavebeengovernedmuchmore
effectively. She had actuallycirculated,
sometimein theearly1970s,aprivatenote
among her confidantesabouthow to redraw the country'sadministrativestructure:if the stateswere allowedto wither
away;thecountrycouldbe slicedinto400,
district-sizedunits,andthese unitswould
be directlyresponsibleto the centrewhich
wouldin turnensuretheflow of resources
to take care of their needs.
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