Pacific Forum is jointly convening the first U.S.-India Indo-Pacific Strategic Dialogue on Kauai in June 2024 with India Foundation from New Delhi.

The U.S.- India partnership has exponentially grown over the last two decades with the partnership expanding as far and wide as the deep sea to outer space.
Of note, the relationship between the world’s largest and oldest democracies, while witnessing steady growth, is also often marred by differences over Cold-War allies and partners.With the Narendra Modi’s BJP-led government coming back to power for a third term in office earlier this month, how will the U.S. – India relationship be affected? Will the stability at the center pave way for policy consistency or stagnate the partnership?Successive American presidents from Bush to Biden have championed the partnership.
Nonetheless, it has not transformed into a treaty-allyship as Washington would like.
Will that change in the coming years?To address these questions and share his insider perspective on the developments in New Delhi, we will have the President of India Foundation deliver a brief lecture at the AC Hotel Honolulu on June 26th.

Dr. Ram Madhav is an Indian politician, social leader, author and thinker. Dr Madhav is the President of India Foundation (IF), a New Delhi-based Think tank.

In over a decade of India Foundation’s existence, Dr Madhav has been the curator of major annual global and national multilateral initiatives like the Indian Ocean Conference, ASEAN-India Youth Summit and Counter Terrorism Conference involving heads of nations and leaders of governments besides academics, scholars and public-spirited individuals. Most recently, Dr Madhav has been instrumental in ideating the Religon-20 Forum (R20) as part of G20.

Previously, Dr Madhav has served as the National General Secretary of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) during 2014-20 responsible for handling the political affairs of Jammu & Kashmir, Assam and other North-Eastern states of India.