The full text of my article for the East West Center's Asia Pacific Bulletin, which was released on August 2, 2011, can be accessed here. A summary is below:
Despite several recent setbacks and a sense of stagnation in the US-India relationship, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's recent visit to India for the second annual US-India Strategic Dialogue exposed the breadth of the bilateral agenda and the United States' unambiguous desire for India to assume greater leadership in the Asia-Pacific. Dhruva Jaishankar...explains that while for a variety of reasons New Delhi may be constrained from taking on an exalted leadership role in the short-term, it is in both countries' interests that Washington continue to deepen its investment in India.