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The U.S., India,
and the Gulf:
Convergence or Divergence
in a Post-Iraq World
March 20-22, 2007
The Persian Gulf Initiative workshop “The United States, India, and the Gulf: Convergence or Divergence in a post-Iraq World?” convened experts on India, the states of the Persian Gulf, and American policy to discuss the interests, perceptions, and policies of these countries. The resulting discussion focused on a set of important dynamics involving the United States, India, and the Gulf that are often overlooked in an American foreign policy community focused on the current conflict in Iraq. The relationship between these actors, as well as countries like Pakistan, Iraq, and China, will be one of the strategic pivots on which US foreign policy rests when dealing with energy security, nuclear proliferation, and trade. This discussion benefited greatly from the wide geographic and substantive diversity of its participants, including academics, current and former policymakers, and members of the business community. This allowed examination of the complex cultural, economic, and political links tying together the United States, India, and the Gulf.
The workshop report discusses these issues, among others.
Participants
| Huda Ahmed
Center for International Studies, MIT
Ali Banuazizi
Boston College Mohammed bin Mafoodh bin Saad al-Arhdi
Al-Arhdi International, Oman
Barbara Bodine
Robert Wilhelm Fellow, Center for International Studies, MIT T.H.G. Cranwell Montgomery
Law Offices of Baker Donelson
Christine Fair
United States Institute of Peace
Jack Gill
National Defense University Sumit Ganguly
Indiana University
Gregory Gause
University of Vermont
Jamal Khashoggi
Advisor to HRH Prince Turki Al Faisal, Saudi Arabia
John Sigler
National Defense University
John Limbert
US Naval Academy
Aftab Kamal Pasha
Jawaharlal Nehru University
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James Placke
Cambridge Energy Research Associates
Barry Posen
Professor of Political Science, MIT
John Rankin
British Consulate Bruce Riedel
Brookings Institution Elizabeth Riedel
CIA Richard Samuels
Director of Center for International Studies, Ford Professor of Political Science, MIT
John Sigler
National Defense University
Nader Sultan
Agility Logistics, Kuwait
John Tirman
Executive Director
Principal
Research Scientist
Center for International Studies Paul Staniland
Ph.D candidate, Department of Political Science, MIT
Stephen Van Evera
Professor of Political Science, MIT
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