"Outcomes of the November U.S.-India 2+2 Dialogue" - by CWP alum Manjari Miller

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin met with Indian Minister of External Affairs S. Jaishankar and Indian Defense Minister Rajnath Singh in New Delhi on Friday, November 10th, marking the fifth U.S.-India 2+2 Ministerial Dialogue. In the face of global security challenges confronted by both sides, this 2+2 dialogue was intended as a formal follow-up to the meetings between Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and U.S. President Joe Biden that took place in June and September of this year. The dialogue discussed a broad range of issues, including Indo-Pacific security, the Israel-Hamas conflict, and the conflict in Ukraine, emphasizing the increasing importance of the bilateral partnership for joint defense efforts and global supply chain securitization.

Manjari Chatterjee Miller is senior fellow for India, Pakistan, and South Asia at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). She is also a research associate in the Contemporary South Asian Studies Programme at the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies at the University of Oxford. An expert on India, China, South Asia, and rising powers, she is the author of Why Nations Rise: Narratives and the Path to Great Power (2021, shortlisted for the 2022 Hedley Bull Prize in International Relations) and Wronged by Empire: Post-Imperial Ideology and Foreign Policy in India and China (2013). Miller is also the co-editor of the Routledge Handbook of China-India Relations (2020), a monthly columnist for the Hindustan Times, and a frequent contributor to policy and media outlets in the United States and Asia.

Photo Credit: By U.S. Secretary of Defense - 220926-D-PM193-1175, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=123429493

Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III and Indian Minister of External Affairs Subrahmanyam Jaishankar engage in a bilateral exchange at the Pentagon, Arlington, VA, Sept. 26, 2022. (DoD photo by U.S. Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Alexander Kubitza)