Kashish Parpiani, at The Blogs

Jan 14, 2025, 3:36 AM

US-India partnership under Trump 2.0: Addressing trade & technology impediments

With Trump’s return, New Delhi can proactively leverage its strengths to address challenges in India-US trade and technology partnership Kashish Parpiani During President Donald J. Trump’s previous term (2017-21), there was an overt attention on India-US trade issues. This pertained to...

Jun 18, 2021, 7:45 AM

Congressional Democrats & Biden’s foreign policy

Following an expansion of Congressional role in foreign policy decision-making under Trump, the influence of progressive Democrats over Biden’s agenda bears mixed prospects for India-US ties Under Donald Trump, the US witnessed a power tussle between the executive and the...

Oct 17, 2018, 10:24 AM

Is Trump reinstating a values-centric US foreign policy towards China?

President Donald J. Trump and First Lady Melania Trump, joined by President Xi Jinping and First Lady Peng Liyuan, applaud and thank the performers at a cultural performance at the Great Hall of the People, Thursday, November 9, 2017, following a State Dinner in their honor, in Beijing, People’s Republic of China. (Official White House Photo by Andrea Hanks)

Trump decries linkage of values & policy but his China policy may be an exception On mounting pressure to punish Saudi Arabia for its alleged involvement in the disappearance of Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi, Trump recently announced that he wouldn't...

Jul 15, 2018, 7:24 PM

Trump’s Exemptionalist US Foreign Policy

President Donald J. Trump participates in the multilateral meeting of the North Atlantic Council | July 11, 2018 (Official White House photograph by Shealah Craighead)

Under President Trump, the United States seems to adopting an unprecedented antagonistic stance against the institutions, commitments, and unpronounced precedents alike, of the liberal world order that the US itself put in place in the aftermath of the Second...

Jan 14, 2017, 6:07 PM

Obama’s Exceptional Funambulism

In underscoring the various challenges riddling the United States, President Obama in his farewell address also purported his rendering of American Exceptionalism. Trevor McCrisken in American Exceptionalism and the Legacy of Vietnam, defines American Exceptionalism as the belief that...

Sep 6, 2016, 11:52 AM

Washington’s Indignant Ally

A Russian broadsheet recently reported that it has acquired a shareholder’s report of the aircraft manufacturer company Russian Aircraft Corporation MiG (RSK MiG). According to its findings, the report outlined contract details of a lucrative deal with an unspecified...

Jun 12, 2016, 9:38 PM

Hillary’s Friedan Moment

Last week, Hillary Clinton became the first woman to win a major party’s nomination in the United States’ history of over two centuries as a democracy. The United States’ commitment to women’s rights was first sealed back in 1919,...

May 31, 2016, 11:14 AM

Wars as Inheritance

Earlier this month, in yet another installment of the United States’ decapitation strategy of targeted killings of high-ranking members of terrorist organizations, Mullah Akhtar Muhammad Mansour, the leader of the Afghan Taliban, was killed by a drone strike in...

May 19, 2016, 8:07 PM

Ratification of Cogency

The United States has not ratified the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) -- which serves as the cornerstone of universalization of women’s rights since its inception in 1979. As of June 23, 2011,...

About Me

Kashish is the co-author of ‘America and the Indo-Pacific - Trump and Beyond’ (Routledge 2022), which offers an assessment of US President Donald Trump’s foreign policy record on India-US relations and the Indo-Pacific region at-large. Kashish is also currently part of the CFR Corporate Leaders Program (2023-25) at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), USA. Kashish has served in various research capacities at the Chairman’s Office of Reliance Industries Limited (RIL), India; the Americas (AMS) Division of the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), India; the Observer Research Foundation (ORF), India; and Nanyang Technological University (RSIS-NTU), Singapore. The views expressed in this commentary are personal.

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