Summary: (http://kamlashow.com/podcast/wp-content/uploads/3455-small_kapur.jpg)South Asia has emerged as a top foreign policy agenda under President Obama's administration. Within the first 100 days of President Obama's administration there were significant policy announcements and developments in USA's South Asian, and a new term AFPak (http://www.opendemocracy.net/article/the-afpak-war-washington-s-three-options) (Afghanistan (http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/09/03/27/A-New-Strategy-for-Afghanistan-and-Pakistan/)and Pakistan (http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/stevecoll/2008/09/the-problem-of.html)) quickly gained currency. Earlier this year (March 2009) I spoke with Prof. Paul Kapur (http://cisac.stanford.edu/people/paulkapur/) about Obama's South Asian policy (http://www.forbes.com/2009/02/15/obama-india-hillary-opinions-columnists_0216_tunku_varadarajan.html) and his assessment of Pakistan, Kashmir, and the nuclear issue in South Asia. Where does India fit into President Obama's South Asian policy? Under the former President George W. Bush the US-India relationship achieved a lot of milestones. Could the same be said of President Obama's administration? Tune in to see if there is a difference when it comes to foreign policy issues between the Democrats and Republicans. Paul is an associate professor in the Department of National Security Affairs at the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. Paul’s research focus is on international security environment in South Asia. He is the author of “Dangerous Deterrent:Nuclear Weapons Proliferation and Conflict in South Asia.” In the June issue of Foreign Affairs (http://www.foreignaffairs.com/) journal has an article "The End of An Affair (http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/65141/sumit-ganguly-and-s-paul-kapur/the-end-of-the-affair)," that Paul co-authored with Prof. Sumit Ganguly about Washington's cooling passion towards India.
