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Occasional Papers

Papers -- most recent first
 

2006

Mukherji, Joydeep. "Economic Growth and India's Future." Occasional Paper No. 26, March 2006. [PDF]

Mittal, Sunil Bharti. "India's New Entrepreneurial Classes: The High Growth Economy and Why it is Sustainable." Occasional Paper No. 25, February 2006. [PDF]


2005

Sen, H.E. Ronen. "Indo-US Relations: Where Are They Headed?" Occasional Paper No. 24, December 2005. [PDF]

Talbott, Strobe. "From Estrangement to Engagement: U.S. - India Relations since May 1998." Occasional Paper No. 23, February 2005. [PDF]

2004

Singhal, Rajrishi. "Financial Sector Reform in India: Is There a Grand Design?" Occasional Paper No. 16, July 2004. [PDF]

Rocca, Christina. "New Horizons in United States Relations with South Asia." Occasional Paper No. 22, July 2004. [PDF]

Tharoor, Shashi. "From Midnight to the Millennium and Beyond: democracy and identity in today's India." Occasional Paper No. 21, July 2004. [PDF]

Malik, V.P. "India's National Security Challenges." Occasional Paper No. 20, July 2004. [PDF]

Subramaniam, Kandula. "Thirteen Years of Power Sector Reform in India: are we still groping in the dark?" Occasional Paper No. 15, May 2004. [PDF]

2003

Perkovich, George. "The Measure of India: what makes greatness?" Occasional Paper No. 19, Sixth Annual Fellows' Lecture, April 23, 2003. [PDF]

2002

Mukherji, Joydeep. "India's Slow Conversion to Market Economics." Occasional Paper No. 18, November 2002. [PDF]

Ahluwalia, Montek Singh."Privatization: from policy formulation to implementation - the view from the inside." Occasional Paper No. 17, Fifth Annual Fellows' Lecture, April 17, 2002. [PDF]

Riedel, Bruce. "American Diplomacy and the 1999 Kargil Summit at Blair House." 2002. [PDF]

2001

Kelkar, Vijay. "India's Reform Agenda: micro, meso, and macro economic reforms." Fourth Annual Fellows' Lecture, April 24, 2001. [PDF]

2000

Raje, Pradeep. "Where did India Miss a Turn in Banking Reform? Is there a Comeback?" Occasional Paper No. 14, December 2000. [PDF]

Bagchi, Pradipta. "Telecommunications Reform and the State in India: the contradiction of private control and government competition." Occasional Paper No. 13, December 2000. [PDF]

Panikkar, K.N. "Outsider as Enemy: the politics of rewriting history in India." Working Paper, November 2000. [PDF]

Riedel, Bruce. "New Directions in Indo-U.S. Relations: President Clinton's Visit to India" and "New Opportunities in U.S.-South Asia Relations: an assessment of President Clinton's visit to India." Occasional Papers No. 11 & 12, February & May, 2000. [PDF]

1999

Vaghul, N. "India's Economic Reforms: positive developments, underlying concerns and the big picture." Occasional Paper No. 10, November 1999. [PDF]

Aiyar, Swaminathan S. Anklesaria. "India's Economic Prospects: the promise of services." Occasional Paper No. 9, April 1999. [PDF]

1998

Verney, Douglas V. "Change of Regime or Party System? Two possible reforms", October 1998. [PDF]

Rangarajan, C. "Creating Autonomous Institutions in a Liberalizing Economy: the Reserve Bank of India." Occasional Paper No. 7, 1998. [PDF]

Singh, Jaswant. "What Constitutes National Security in a Changing World Order? India's strategic thought." Occasional Paper No. 6, June 1998. [PDF]

1997

Joseph, Robert. "The Role of Nuclear Weapons in U.S. Defense Policy." Revised versions of papers prepared for CASI Symposium on U.S.-India Nuclear Dialogue 1997: the future of nuclear weapons, Philadelphia, May 5-7, 1997. [PDF]

Mohan, Raja C. "Nuclear Weapons and the Asian Balance of Power." Revised versions of papers prepared for CASI Symposium on U.S.-India Nuclear Dialogue 1997: the future of nuclear weapons, Philadelphia, May 5-7, 1997. [PDF]

Nacht, Michael. "U.S. Nuclear Strategy: Is there any new wire in the old bottle?" Revised versions of papers prepared for CASI Symposium on U.S.-India Nuclear Dialogue 1997: the future of nuclear weapons, Philadelphia, May 5-7, 1997. [PDF]

Nayyar, K.K. "Changing World Order & India's Strategic Response." Revised versions of papers prepared for CASI Symposium on U.S.-India Nuclear Dialogue 1997: the future of nuclear weapons, Philadelphia, May 5-7, 1997. [PDF]

Sood, Rakesh, Frank N. von Hippel, and Morton H. Halperin. "The Road to Nuclear Zero: three approaches." Revised versions of papers prepared for CASI Symposium on U.S.-India Nuclear Dialogue 1997: the future of nuclear weapons, Philadelphia, May 5-7, 1997. [PDF]

Tellis, Ashley J. "Creeping Weaponization: the future of the Indian nuclear program?" Paper prepared for CASI Symposium on U.S.-India Nuclear Dialogue 1997: the future of nuclear weapons, Philadelphia, May 5-7, 1997. [PDF]

1996

Cort, John E. "Communities, Temples, Identities." 1996. [PDF]

Davis, Richard. "Writing as if Icons are Really Alive." 1996. [PDF]

Gold, Ann Grodzins. "Shared Blessings as Ethnographic Practice." 1996. [PDF]

Parekh, Bhikhu. "Cultural Diversity and the Crisis of the Modern State." 1996. [PDF]

1995

Feldhaus, Anne. "On My Way of Living in India.", 1995. [PDF]