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program Coordinator & Junior Fellow
Ammar Nainar
Ammar Nainar is Program Coordinator and Junior Fellow at ORF America where he contributes to research, writing and programming on contemporary strategic affairs. Most recently, he interned at Brookings Institution where he undertook a research project collating, analyzing and summarizing multiple U.S. Congressional hearings pertaining to U.S.-India relations and the China factor between 1979 to 2011. He has also been involved in research on Indian and US foreign policy at Carnegie India, the International Institute for Strategic Studies and the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
Nainar holds an MA in Asian Studies from the Edmund Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and a BA in International Relations from the Department of War Studies at King’s College London. Nainar is on Twitter @stratamm
Building Back Better: Reinvigorating Global American Leadership, Georgetown ISD (Capstone), May 2021.
Building Indian States’ Capacity in Monitoring FDI, CSIS (Blog), November 5, 2020.
pUBLICATIONS
While there is no shortage of analysis and speculation of China’s capabilities and behavior today, it is imperative to keep an eye on longer-term developments and remain open to uncertainties that could shape China’s strategic outlook.
Joint Report
By Shikha Aggarwal, Divyank Chaudhary, Lily McElwee, Aaron Glasserman, Keshav Kelkar, Kento Mashiko, Takuya Matsuda, Helen Mitchell, Philip Rogers, Rena Sasaki, David Saultry, and Neil Thomas
Editors: Dhruva Jaishankar and Greg Brown
Background Paper No. 25
By Ammar Nainar
By Ammar Nainar
Drawing from a deep pool of military expertise, New Delhi is expanding its foreign affairs capacity.
Recent developments – most notably the rise and assertiveness of the People’s Republic of China – have led to a rethink about the role of democracy in Indian foreign policy.
Special Report
By Dhruva Jaishankar & Ammar Nainar
By Ammar Nainar
India’s military leaders have valuable foreign experience that they have gained from ground operations, professional military education and defence diplomacy.
A particular focus of this issue is solar energy in the United States and India. Solar will be key to reducing emissions and decarbonizing the energy systems of both countries.
Special Report
By Shayak Sengupta & Ammar Nainar
By Ambar Kumar Ghosh and Ammar Nainar
A quarterly snapshot of energy trends in the U.S. and India
Special Report
By Ammar Nainar
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By Ammar Nainar
In a signal of the United States’ burden-sharing efforts, the Indian Ocean region was featured eight times in the latest U.S.-India joint statement between Indian prime minister Narendra Modi and U.S. president Donald Trump. To India and the United States, the Indian Ocean remains vital for trade and energy flows, for security competition given China’s growing naval activity, and for connectivity between Asia, Africa, and Europe.
By Natalie Boyse and Ammar Nainar
As officials plan new initiatives and prepare for the Quad Leaders’ Summit in India later this year, one area to explore further collaboration might involve Quad scenario planning exercises on Indo-Pacific security issues.
By Ammar Nainar
By extending concessionary loans to incentivize and settle trade in rupees, India’s central bank is learning from China’s experience in internationalizing its currency.
By Ammar Nainar
The Quad is not abdicating responsibility against China as some skeptics allege. Rather, China’s military, diplomatic, and economic coercion provides the rationale for many of the Quad’s initiatives.
By Ammar Nainar
A more careful examination of India’s military exercises today shows how they are indicative of India’s new diplomatic partnerships and priorities.
By Ammar Nainar
Narendra Modi became the first Indian prime minister to visit Ukraine this week, amid the backdrop of an ongoing war between Ukraine and Russia. But New Delhi and Kyiv have had a longer and wider association than many realize, dating back to the Soviet Union.
