United States and India: A Defining 21st Century Partnership?

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Television Broadcast: March 15, 2015

President Obama recently said the U.S.-India relationship could be one of the "defining partnerships of the 21st century." WILLIAM J. ANTHOLIS, the Miller Center’s new director and CEO, has decades of government, non-profit, and academic experience. Before coming to the Miller Center, Antholis served as managing director of the Brookings Institution. He currently serves as a non-resident senior fellow at Brookings. Antholis is the author of Inside Out India and China: Local Politics Go Global and the co-author (with Brookings President Strobe Talbott) of Fast Forward: Ethics and Politics in the Age of Global Warming. Antholis has worked at the White House, where he was director of international economic affairs of the National Security Council and the National Economic Council. He also worked at the State Department on the policy planning staff and in the Bureau of Economic Affairs, where he was a member of the team responsible for developing responses to world financial crises. JEFFREY W. LEGRO is faculty associate at the Miller Center as well as Taylor Professor of Politics and vice provost for global affairs at the University of Virginia. A specialist on international relations, Legro is the author of Rethinking the World: Great Power Strategies and International Order and co-editor (with the Miller Center’s Melvyn Leffler) of To Lead the World: U.S. Strategy after the Bush Doctrine and In Uncertain Times: American Foreign Policy after the Berlin Wall and 9/11. Legro chaired the American Political Science Association (APSA) Task Force on U.S. Standing in the World and is past president of APSA’s International History and Politics section. He previously taught at the University of Minnesota and China Foreign Affairs University in Beijing. In 2011, Legro was Fulbright-Nehru Senior Researcher at the Institute for Defense and Strategic Analyses in New Delhi.