Estranged Democracies

Reviews / Votes

`Looks at an important but neglected topic from an unusual perspective. The main thesis is consistent and is supported rigorously with well-researched data. Furthermore, use of the American presidential administration as the unit of analysis allows the individual tone of each administration to emerge, and it emphasises the significance of personalities in decision-making' - Millenium



`Invaluable.... provides a comprehensive historical account beginning with the establishment of direct diplomatic relations between the United States of America and India, then part of the British Empire, in 1941. The narrative ends with the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi and the end of the Cold War, in mid-1991.... Kux... describes the reasons for estrangement in the relationship very well.... serves[s] as an excellent retrospective... a constructive critique of the relationship analysed.... will be a valuable eye-opener.... will certainly highlight the tremendous scope of research potential within [the relationship] that awaits scholarly analysis' - The Journal of Commonwealth and Comparative Politics