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• The Ties that Bind? U.S.–Indian Values-based Cooperation

  CNAS Senior Fellow Richard Fontaine co-authored a Washington Quarterly article about the evolution of U.S.-India relations. Both New Delhi and Washington have rhetorically inv...

  By Richard Fontaine

  • Commentary
  • The Washington Quarterly
  • March 23, 2011
• Should the U.S. Move Against Qaddafi? A Logical, But Difficult, Step

  The administration is right to ratchet up the pressure on Colonel Qaddafi and his brutal regime. Talking of establishing a no-flight zone, repositioning American military asse...

  By Richard Fontaine

  • Commentary
  • The New York Times
  • March 1, 2011
• We Need an Indian Civilian Surge

  President Barack Obama visits India this weekend amid high expectations for the future of the U.S.-India relationship. Yet of the many issues that will be on his plate -- civi...

  By Richard Fontaine

  • Commentary
  • Foreign Policy
  • November 4, 2010
• Rejuvenating Strategic Partnership

  In 1998, then-Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee asserted that India and the United States were "natural allies in the quest for a better future for the world in the 21st cen...

  By Richard Fontaine

  • Commentary
  • The Times of India
  • October 22, 2010
• America Needs an Internet Agenda

  Google's announcement that it has stopped censoring results from its Chinese search engine has captured global attention, but developments on the Internet freedom front are co...

  By Richard Fontaine

  • Commentary
  • March 24, 2010
• Yemen's coming disaster

  The Nigerian Islamist who allegedly attempted to detonate a bomb on a Christmas Day flight to Detroit, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, has brought Yemen once again into the spotlig...

  By Andrew M. Exum & Richard Fontaine

  • Commentary
  • Los Angeles Times
  • January 5, 2010

• Indo-Pacific Security

  Obama’s Opportunity with India

  In hosting Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh this week for the first state visit of his administration, President Barack Obama can claim to be taking India seriously as a p...

  By Richard Fontaine

  • Commentary
  • World Politics Review
  • November 26, 2009

• Indo-Pacific Security

  Trading Up in the Taiwan Strait

  In the year and a half since President Ma Ying-jeou took office in Taipei, the world has witnessed an unprecedented rapprochement between China and Taiwan. The two sides have ...

  By Richard Fontaine

  • Commentary
  • The Wall Street Journal
  • October 25, 2009
• Counterintuitive Counterinsurgency

  As the Obama administration debates whether to stick with the counterinsurgency strategy for Afghanistan, opponents point to that nation's flawed presidential election as a re...

  By John A. Nagl & Richard Fontaine

  • Commentary
  • Los Angeles Times
  • October 12, 2009