By Vipin Agnihotri
Fareed Zacharia-
The editor of Newsweek International, Fareed Zacharia is well known for esoteric thoughts such as the future of freedom, where he contends that triumphant democracies will need to build independent institutions, disconnect religion from politics and build its image globally. Fareed is famous for his pro-Republican views on Iraq and Afghanistan. But his most important contribution is the manner in which he is selling the idea of India in the US.
Ashley Tellis-
Ashley Tellis is possibly the main Indian-American face of the US-India nuclear deal. He believes in Condoleeza’s Rice observation that bilateral civilian nuclear cooperation will be the key in expanding Indo-US relationship. According to Tellis, as the centre of gravity shifts towards Asia and as Asia’s share of the global economy threatens to become 50 per cent by 2025, its imperative for Indo-US partnership to construct a stable geopolitical order in Asia that is conducive to peace and prosperity.
Jagdish Bhagwati-
Economics professor at Columbia University, Jagdish Bhagwati is an expert at trade, WTO and multilateralism. He professes free trade in a multilateral context. He thinks that the current crop of US senators and Congressman are a deplorable disappointment to proponents of multilateralism. In the last few decades Bhagwati has propounded path-breaking theories relating to globalized trade. According to Jagdish, the breakdown of the Doha round of WTO talks has less to do with India and Brazil’s protectionism than with the US’s paralyzing inability to respond to long standing world-wide demand for the reduction of its agricultural subsidies.
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