COMMENTARIES
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South Asian Dialectic
India and Nuclear Terrorism: Meeting the Threat
PR Chari · 17 Mar, 2014 · #4339 · Commentary · Column
Nuclear Terrorism: Is the threat exaggerated?
To play the devil’s advocate, it is not easy for unauthorised persons to acquire nuclear weapons or nuclear materials. Being crown jewels, they would be closely guarded by trusted cohorts...
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Strategic Space
Nuclear Security Summit 2014: Shared Risk, Shared Responsibility
Manpreet Sethi · 17 Mar, 2014 · #4338 · Commentary · Column
In just a few days, heads of governments of about four dozen nations will assemble in the Hague, Netherlands, for the third Nuclear Security Summit. An initiative started by President Obama in 2010 in Washington, the Summit travelled to Seoul in...
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US and Asia-Pacific
Pivot, Rebalance and What Next?
D Suba Chandran · 13 Mar, 2014 · #4337 · Commentary
The American strategy towards the Asia Pacific is facing serious challenges. What started as a new “pivot” to Asia and later shifted to a “rebalance” now needs serious re-adjustment. Not because the American strategy is p...
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J&K
Of Sedition and Cricket
Shujaat Bukhari · 13 Mar, 2014 · #4336 · Commentary
When India played against West Indies in Srinagar on October 13, 1983, I vividly remember how star batsman Sunil Gavaskar felt awkward when the spectators were carrying long posters of Imran Khan in their hands. He just waved at them and gesture...
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TAPI Pipeline: Expected by 2017?
Roomana Hukil · 12 Mar, 2014 · #4335 · Commentary
Recent talks by the Indian Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Veerappa Moily, on the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas pipeline project and China taking over the chief controllership of the pipeline project from the US has r...
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Indian Navy: Responding to Perceptions of Being ‘All at Sea’
C Uday Bhaskar · 10 Mar, 2014 · #4334 · Commentary
A tragic industrial accident occurred on 07 March on a naval warship under construction in the Mazagon Docks, Mumbai, resulting in the death of a naval officer. The fire-fighting equipment on board the Kolkata class destroyer was being tested and ...
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Eagle Eye
US-China Cold Confrontation: New Paradigm of Asian Security
Chintamani Mahapatra · 10 Mar, 2014 · #4333 · Commentary · Column
The US Secretary of State John Kerry’s recent visit to China exemplified a complex dynamics of relations between the existing superpower and an aspiring one.
The US’ “Manifest Destiny” and China’s “Middle Kingd...
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Nuke Street
Ukraine: Implications for Global Nuclear Diplomacy
Sheel kant Sharma · 10 Mar, 2014 · #4332 · Commentary · Column
The news stories of the past week are a powerful throwback to an era to which we thought the world bid goodbye in the 1990s – the mutually opposing stance of Russia and the West on the developments in Ukraine, Russian troops in Crimea and ...
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The Strategist
India-Pakistan-China: Nuclear Policy and Deterrence Stability
Vijay Shankar · 10 Mar, 2014 · #4331 · Commentary · Column
“Lift not the painted veil which those who live
Call life:………behind, lurk Fear
And Hope…”
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Cold War Mantra
In September 1950, responding to a directive from the President of ...
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Afghanistan
Chinese Energy Explorations in Afghanistan: A Case Study
Madhavi Chakravarti · 10 Mar, 2014 · #4330 · Commentary
China’s energy demand has increased manifold in the past decade. The US Energy Information Administration (EIA) predicts that in the coming years, China will account for one-third of the world’s energy consumption. This quest for ene...
