Capitol Hill to Raisina Hill

There is an old adage in America that "politics stops at the water's edge." The phrase, coined by US Senator Arthur Vandenberg in 1945, today speaks to the informal norm that senior representatives of the government shall refrain from criticising the opposition when outside the country. Yet the phrase also carries another, unintended connotation, revealing a strangely pervasive temptation in Washington to treat domestic politics as a uniquely American phenomenon.

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