E. A. Sagaydak Is the “Nuclear Bargain” between India and the USA of 2008 actual again after Narendra Modi coming to power?

Abstract: The article touches upon the range of urgent aspects, related to the cooperation between India and the USA in the sphere of atomic energetics. The author attempts to analyze the agreement, signed between New Delhi and Washington in 2008 and called the “123 Agreement” or the “Nuclear Bargain”. The article reveals the range of prerequisites, impelling India to cooperate with the USA more closely, gives the examples of Washington’s aggressive politics, affecting New Delhi’s foreign policy in the light of the agreement signed. 1. The source study analysis is used in relation to the legislative and office work sources; 2. The chronological method is used in order to reveal the peculiarities of foreign and domestic policy of India changes, directed at provision of its own and regional security; 3. The situational analysis helps to reconstruct particular events in the development of the problem of regional security, and the attempts to settle the conflicts in the region according to the legislative and office work sources and Mass Media; 4. The system approach is used to analyze the problem as a complex, dynamic and integral phenomenon on the base of the analysis of the elements interdependency separately and in complex; 5. The quantitative analysis allows revealing the interconnection of the processes, taking place on the domestic arena, with political and economic component of foreign policy; 6. The comparative method helps to trace the peculiarity of India and the USA relations with the states-partners and the states, potentially threatening their security in general. After the Bharatya Janata Party and its leader Narendra Modi coming to power in India in 2014 the question of continuation of cooperation between New Delhi and Washington has been raising, first of all in the sphere of energy. The topicality of the research can also be explained by the fact that due to the crisis in Ukraine and worsening of relations between Moscow and Washington, the USA can repeat the attempts to strengthen their positions in South Asian region, particularly on the Indian direction, remaining one of traditional and the most important directions for Russia.

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