Southern Asia is undergoing a significant transformation in the strategic force postures of its principal states.

Over the past 40 years, India’s foremost defense strategist K. Subrahmanyam or “Subbu,” as he was fondly known to his friends, profoundly shaped India’s foreign and defense policy through his work and writings.

Despite President Obama’s upcoming participation in the Russia-U.S. summit in St. Petersburg, much of the American foreign policy community remains at odds over U.S. policy towards Moscow.

Relations between India and the U.S. have improved in recent years, thanks in part to a “building block” approach that aims to build trust from the bottom-up. Carnegie hosted Ambassador David Mulford to discuss this relationship.

On July 10, 2007, the Carnegie Endowment released a new and timely report, Rethinking Western Strategies Toward Pakistan: An Action Agenda for the United States and Europe, by Visiting Scholar Frederic Grare. Stephen Cohen from the Brookings Institution and Mark Schneider from the International Crisis Group served as discussants, while Carnegie Vice-President George Perkovich moderated the event.