He asked the crowd, “(Why) in God’s name would Americans give up the progress we’ve made for the chaos they’re suggesting?” “MAGA Republicans,” he added, “are literally choosing to inflict this pain on the American people.” Despite that heavy emphasis on his warnings about GOP plans, Biden this week is expected to hone in on his ability to work across the aisle to push legislation into law. Specifically, in a preview of the travel, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre underscored Biden’s “success (in) bringing Republicans and independents and Democrats together to pass the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.” In Baltimore on Monday, the president brought up his recent trip to Kentucky, where he stood alongside Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell to herald the implementation of the massive $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill that McConnell and 18 other Senate Republicans supported.
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Until recently, few scholars—let alone former diplomats or analysts —made much attempt to draw on substantial theoretical literature to inform their discussions of India’s foreign policy. Instead, studies of New Delhi’s approach tended toward the descriptive or didactic. But this trend has given way to a new wave of scholarship that explicitly links international relations theory to case studies of India’s foreign and security policies. Political scientist Rajesh Basrur is the latest to contribute to this emergent genre with his book Subcontinental Drift: Domestic Politics and India’s Foreign Policy. Basrur’s analysis follows neoclassical realism, which incorporates domestic factors to explain states’ foreign and security policies—unlike structural realism, which overlooks internal characteristics to focus on the distribution of power. Neoclassical realists contend that factors such as the efficacy of a state’s institutions shape its responses to external threats or impending shi...