Following the hullabaloo of US President Barack Obama’s whistle stop tour of Asia in November – the focus of which was primarily on China, Japan, the Koreas and South East Asia – it might be logical to assume that Washington-New Delhi relations have fallen down the pecking order of America’s list of foreign policy priorities. [Read more...]

US President Barack Obama, en route to ‘Asia’ (I use the speech marks, because Asia is so diverse and it is inaccurate to consider it a single entity), has no shortage of issues to deal with when he gets there. There seems to be a general feeling that US influence in Asia is on the [Read more...]

US President Barack Obama is certainly a surprise choice for winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, not least because he has been in office for only ten months. Without wanting to be drawn into any US partisan debates, I think it is fair to say that during this period, it is questionable if he has [Read more...]

Every time a British prime minister meets their new American counterpart for the first time (and vice versa), there is a flurry of commentary in the UK media asking whether the ‘special relationship’ between the two countries is secure. With Gordon Brown meeting Barack Obama in Washington today, all eyes will be on the rapport [Read more...]