After eight years of unprecedented cooperation, the United States and India have begun a slow drift apart, an article by JINSA Research Associate Jacob Levkowicz reports. Relations have been strained over differences related to Washington's "Af-Pak" policy and the Obama Administration's lack of action on the 2008 civilian nuclear fuel deal.

M.D. Nalapat, Professor of Geopolitics at India's Manipal University, analyzes the recent Indian elections that saw a crushing defeat for the right-of-center BJP and gave the ruling Congress Party a strong hold of the parliament.

M.D. Nalapat, Professor of Geopolitics at India's Manipal University, explains that unless the police in India are given the manpower, the remuneration and the equipment and training needed to evolve into a modern and professional force they are at risk of being ineffective against not just the criminals but against a foe even deadlier - the terrorist.

M.D. Nalapat, Professor of Geopolitics at India's Manipal University, explains that from March 2 to the expected swearing-in of a new government at the end of May, India has once again relapsed to "election mode," where effective governance has passed from the elected representatives of the people to the Election Commission composed of three former bureaucrats who have given to themselves dictatorial power during this period.

In his sixth analytical essay on India, M.D. Nalapat, Professor of Geopolitics at India's Manipal University, describes what he refers to as "a silent civil war in India." Unless one of the two groups is given encouragement, India may within 15 years enter the trajectory now being orbited by Pakistan.

In his fifth analytical essay on India, M.D. Nalapat, Professor of Geopolitics at India's Manipal University, proposes the possibility that India has entered into an action-reaction cycle in which the state implements policies that consciously favor certain faiths and thus promotes a separatist mindset and triggers anger in those who are ignored.

In his fourth analytical essay on India, Dr. M.D. Nalapat, Professor of Geopolitics at India's Manipal University, projects that success against terror will need an understanding of the evolving chemistries in South Asia, especially that of Pakistan, Bangladesh and India.

In his third analytical essay on India, Dr. M.D. Nalapat, Professor of Geopolitics at India's Manipal University, explains that a "soft" state possesses the implements and authority needed for beneficial policies but fails to implement them because of corruption or lack of will. The administration of a "soggy" state, however, has become so dysfunctional that it is unable to implement steps designed for its protection even should it seek to.

In his second analytical essay on India, Dr. M.D. Nalapat, Professor of Geopolitics at India's Manipal University, explains that India is at risk of being on the cusp of joining Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iraq to form the quartet most affected by international terrorism. India presents several lessons to other democracies in how not to fight the War on Terror.

The first of a series of analytical essays from India, courtesy of longtime JINSA interlocutor Dr. M.D. Nalapat, Professor of Geopolitics at India's Manipal University.