Saudi Arabia has celebrated its “diamond jubilee” and Pakistan the “golden jubilee” of a strategic partnership with the U.S. In both cases, it was the United Kingdom (UK) that was crucial to the
While there was a strong and overt congruence of interests between the NATO powers and Wahhabi extremists during the 1979-94 Afghan war, 9/11 reversed the situation, leading to a pullback from the
The winds are not in the sails of the India-U.S. relationship. The failure to close the India-U.S. Civil Nuclear Agreement, the suspension of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in retail, the