The Foreign Service Journal, November 2009

N O V E M B E R 2 0 0 9 / F O R E I G N S E R V I C E J O U R N A L 23 Richmond wrote in the first edition. And, he says, this is still true. Yale Richmond, a retired Foreign Service officer with USIA who served in Germany, Laos, Poland, Austria and the Soviet Union, worked on U.S.-Soviet exchanges for more than 20 years, including a tour of duty as coun- selor for press and culture in Moscow. He is the author of From Da to Yes: Understanding the East Europeans (Intercultural Press, 1995), Into Africa: Intercultural In- sights (Intercultural Press, 1998), Practicing Public Diplomacy: A Cold War Odyssey (Berghahn Books, 2008) and Understanding the Americans: A Handbook for Visitors to the United States (see p. 26). India and the United States in the 21st Century: Reinventing Partnership Teresita C. Schaffer, Center for Strategic and International Studies, 2009, $22.95, paperback, 264 pages. The emergence of India as an economic powerhouse over the last decade has helped drive a sea change in relations between Washington and New Delhi. India has moved beyond its ColdWar–era nonalignment and relative iso- lation and now seeks a greater hand in global politics, economics and security. But at the dawn of the second decade of the new millennium, Ambassador Teresita C. Schaffer observes, U.S.-Indian relations have grown jumbled. While the two nations maintain strong ties, there are few global issues upon which they agree. In the new era, India’s cooperation in the global is- sues of nuclear proliferation, climate change and inter- national financial reforms will be vital to global stability. These, however, are exactly the issues on which the U.S. and India cannot find common ground. New Delhi re- fuses to budge, traditionally valuing a foreign policy free of outside influence, while America, expecting to domi- nate any partnership, presses onward to no avail. Amb. Schaffer presents a striking analysis of the diplomatic gridlock and offers a path toward integrating the conflicting bilateral and multilateral desires, sug- gesting that America adopt a candid policy of inclusion to draw India into global leadership councils. Teresita C. Schaffer served in the Foreign Service for