Our Time Has Come

In Our Time Has Come, Alyssa Ayres, a former U.S. deputy assistant secretary of state for South Asia and currently a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, describes [India's] astonishing transformation and parses skillfully the political revolution that has accompanied it. . . . Ms. Ayres, always lucid and erudite, is at her best in her analysis of India's foreign policy. . . . Ms. Ayres draws a portrait of India in 2040-50 years after she first set callow foot in New Delhi as a Harvard junior-that takes the breath away." - Wall Street Journal
A sweeping analysis of India's remarkable recent transformation into one of the world's biggest economies and militaries. . . . [Ayres] ably charts the country's emergence from the straitjacket of socialist policies." - Foreign Policy
Our Time Has Come provides a fascinating and timely account of a nation growing 'less and less reticent about its global ambitions'." - Financial Times
Our Time Has Come is a highly readable, acute and thoughtful book." - International Affairs
A balanced and carefully researched analysis of India's prospects. * Raj Shah, Desh-Videsh *
Impeccably researched . . . [Ayres's] book presents a wonderfully detailed look at India today." - Publishers Weekly
For a balanced and carefully researched analysis of India's prospects, as seen from Washington, this is a book which will rank pretty high in the years to come. . . . The author has good advice for US policymakers, who will need to accept that India will play according to its own template rather than accept a Washington template." - Shyam Saran, ThePrint
Ayres, a former US deputy assistant secretary of state for South Asia, covers the territory on this theme very well: from India's well-known caution to the divided attention of its leaders. . . . India could do with more such understanding friends in the US." - Siddharth Singh, Open magazine
The book . . . all comes together for an absorbing read as Ayres blends her unique perspective of affection and deep faith in India's success with an analytical outsider's lens on where India is headed." - Hindu
Ayres' latest book is primarily aimed at acquainting American readers with Asia's third-largest economy. But it is also a must-read for Indians and others interested in how this country is making its place in the modern world and how the process is viewed by an astute India-watcher." - Asian Age
Alyssa Ayres's sweeping amalgam of applied history, contemporary geopolitical analysis and prescriptive policy guidelines on how to deal with India . . . is a brilliantly researched, academically robust and yet easy-to-read book on contemporary India. . . . Personally, I could not put down the book and will argue that it only adds to the author's reputation as one of the most perceptive international analysts of contemporary Indian and South Asian geopolitics." Arjun Subramaniam, Visiting Fellow, Harvard Asia Center, ThePrint
Ayres has written a lucid and compelling book about India's aspirations and its rise on the international stage that confirms her as one of the pre-eminent international observers of the country. Her expertise, moreover, is not of a sedentary variety: Ayres has taken pains to discover India intimately, and every page of Our Time Has Come exhibits her deep learning." - The National
Ayres . . . does not brush India's challenges under the carpet. To the contrary, she undertakes a holistic appraisal of India's capabilities by situating its myriad challenges alongside its growing material capabilities since the economic liberalization of the early 1990s. . . . Even India scholars will end up with a better handle on the 'duality' of the Indian state." - Lekh
Few outsiders know modern India's politics, society and history as well as Alyssa Ayres. In Our Time Has Come, she chronicles India's extraordinary rise and its future as a great global power." - Nicholas Burns, Former Undersecretary of State, U.S. State Department; Roy and Barbara Goodman Family Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Relations, Harvard Kennedy School
Alyssa Ayres has blended a keen sense of the possibilities with a clear-eyed grasp of the complexities to produce the most cogent and compelling account to date of India's emergence on the world stage. She gives her readers easy access to her perspectives as scholar and policymaker, without shying away from the hard questions. Our Time Has Come is a tremendous piece of work.-" Jake Sullivan, Martin R. Flug Visiting Lecturer, Yale Law School; former Deputy Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton; former National Security Advisor to Vice President Joe Biden
Alyssa Ayres has emerged as the country's leading scholar and practitioner on India, and this well-crafted book reaffirms her status. She skillfully captures the moment we are witnessing-India emerging as a leading power-in this exceptionally interesting and important account of the country to watch in the twenty-first century." - Rich Verma, U.S. Ambassador to India, 2015 to 2017; Vice Chairman, The Asia Group
The great questions India faces have the potential to significantly alter the global economic and political landscape. Alyssa Ayres brings decades of local knowledge and global foreign policy work as she provides an in-depth view on the complexities of India as it seeks to answer such questions and seize its opportunity." - Charles R. Kaye, Co-CEO, Warburg Pincus
Our Time Has Come is a splendid survey of the possibilities, problems, and prospects associated with India's ascendancy on the global stage. In describing how India is transforming the global order without revisionism, Alyssa Ayres lays bare the uniqueness of India's rise and compellingly argues for a strong U.S. partnership with India to strengthen the liberal international order." - Ashley Tellis, Tata Chair for Strategic Affairs, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
14/01/2019