There good reasons to believe Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s state visit to the United States could be a landmark moment.
Agreements likely to be signed could, over time, seriously augment India’s defence capabilities and ease its long-term security concerns.
India-US relations comprise an extensive portfolio. But the big question in the relationship is about international order and the role of geopolitics in shaping it: how the two nations overlap, how they read the contemporary crisis in international affairs and the need for a new order, and what role they see for geopolitics in shaping the emergent order.