Our Time Has Come

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 * 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 * 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 * 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 * 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 * Impeccably researched... a wonderfully detailed look at India today. * Publishers Weekly * Lucid and erudite... 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 * For a balanced and carefully researched analysis of Indias prospects, as seen from Washington, this is a book which will rank pretty high in the years to come. * Shyam Saran, The Print * 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. * Patralekha Chatterjee, Asian Age * A fascinating and timely account of a nation growing less and less reticent about its global ambitions . * James Crab tree, Financial Times *