TY - BOOK AU - Vickery, Raymond Ezekiel AU - TI - The eagle and the elephant: strategic aspects of U.S.-India economic engagement / SN - 9780198072515 U1 - 337.73054 PY - 2011/// CY - New Delhi PB - Oxford University Press KW - KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / Comparative KW - bisacsh KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Economic Policy KW - United States KW - Foreign economic relations KW - India KW - India KW - Foreign relations N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - "The Eagle and the Elephant shows how economic engagement directly affects U.S. cooperation with India on strategic issues. Through case studies of major efforts, including civil nuclear cooperation, services outsourcing, antiterrorism, and electricity generation and the environment, Raymond E. Vickery Jr. presents both successful and unsuccessful instances of complex collaborations between the two nations. Vickery draws on his own experience in the Commerce Department and as an economic consultant. Buttressed by information from official sources, journalistic accounts, and interviews, he offers new insight into the interplay of legislative and executive branch officials, policy proponents, business and nonprofit organizations, and activists.Vickery explores how the United States employs commercial diplomacy as only one component of an overall economic engagement in the formation and implementation of foreign policy. This interaction, Vickery argues, has the potential to increase intergovernmental confidence and cooperation in areas vital to both countries and to world security and peace"-- |c Provided by publisher ER -