U.S.-India Relationship: Cross-Sector Collaboration to Promote Sustainable Development

This volume reflects the insights that emerged during the 3-day workshop entitled "The U.S.-India Relationship: Cross-Sector Collaboration to Promote Sustainable Development", which took place at Dickinson College on March 12-14, 2013. The primary purpose of this volume is to summarize the ideas shared by those professionals, in hope they will serve as a stimulus to further conversation and research about an increasingly important set of matters. For the past 2 decades, the U.S. National Security Strategy has been based on four overarching national interests: defense of the homeland; economic prosperity; promotion of U.S. values; and a favorable world order. While U.S. national interests have not changed, in the current era strategic leaders in government, the military, business, and civil society are confronted by complex challenges that have multiple causes and often lie at the intersection of matters related to globalization, sustainability, and security, and by forces that will shape the intermediate-term future of the global system. In the current era, initiatives that involve cross-sector collaboration-collaboration among participants representing government, military, for-profit, non-profit, citizen groups, and intergovernmental organizations-to tackle problems that defy easy solution are becoming more commonplace at all levels of society.Thus, there is an increasing need on the part of strategic leaders from all sectors to better understand the factors that contribute to the success of collaborative initiatives.Those insights are relevant to efforts to promote sustainable development, a matter of importance in the context of the U.S.-India strategic relationship. Read more