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The Centre for Policy Research (CPR) invites you to a talk on:
Indo – U.S. Relations in the Trump 2.0 Era
Speaker:
Rani D. Mullen, Associate Professor of Government, College of William & Mary, Virginia, US & Senior Visiting Fellow, CPR
Chair:
D Shyam Babu, Senior Fellow, CPR
Monday, 27th January 2025, 3:00 PM IST
The talk will be held in a hybrid mode at the CPR Conference Room (Dharam Marg, New Delhi) and online via Zoom. Register below to attend.
About the talk:
This talk will explore the future of Indo – US relations in the Trump 2.0 era. With the recent inauguration of President Trump, the US – India relationship is at a critical juncture. Under President Biden as well as under President Trump 1.0, US – India relations expanded into a global and strategic partnership. Yet President Trump’s statements and his cabinet choices as he took over the reins of power, signaled mixed messages about the future trajectory of the bilateral relationship. While the new US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio hosted the Quad foreign ministers on his first day in office in a signal of America’s continued focus on working with India to counter China, other statements by Trump signal areas of friction such as the US trade deficit with India, H1B visas, and Indian imports of Russian oil. The bilateral relationship is likely to remain a strong one under Trump 2.0, yet transactional, in which President Trump will also require some concessions from India.
About the speaker:
Rani D. Mullen is an Associate Professor of Government at the College of William & Mary and was the East Asia Freeman Fellowship Director in 2023-24. In 2024, she launched the Afghanistan Research Lab at the College of William & Mary. Mullen is an editor for Routledge’s Advances in South Asian Studies and India Review and a Senior Visiting Fellow at CPR. Her research centres on South Asian politics, particularly India and Afghanistan. Her book Decentralization Local Governance and Social Wellbeing in India was published in 2011. She has held various fellowships and publishes on state-building, democracy, and foreign policies in the South Asia region and in comparative contexts.
Mullen received her PhD from Princeton University and has been teaching at William & Mary for 20 years.