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  • Nuclear Weapons: Debating the Normative Imperatives to Disarm
    Satyabrat Sinha    ·   21 Feb, 2013    ·    #3822    ·    Commentary    
    In evaluating the argument that for global nuclear disarmament to be possible, norms that delegitimise and devalue nuclear weapons are needed, we first need to understand norms and their difference from injunctions (legal or moral), and the emer...
  • Special Commentary: Gwadar and China’s Search for a Maritime Lebensraum
    Vijay Shankar    ·   19 Feb, 2013    ·    #3821    ·    Commentary    
    The end of the Cold War brought in its wake prognostication of the emergence of one world in which harmony, democracy, an end to conflict and of man’s ideological evolution with the grand formulation that western liberal democracy had prev...
  • Review: India, Pakistan and Incremental CBMs
    Debak Das    ·   18 Feb, 2013    ·    #3820    ·    Commentary    
    Beyond Incrementalism: Rethinking Approaches to CBMs and Stability in South Asia Toby Dalton Stimson Center, 30 January 2013 In light of the fresh round of overt and public exchanges of animosity between India and Pakistan in January 2013, ...
  • Myanmar: Imperatives to Economic Reforms
    Nayantara Shaunik    ·   18 Feb, 2013    ·    #3819    ·    Commentary    
    Since 2011, Myanmar has embarked upon a series of reforms, including political, economic, and administrative amendments. Progress has been made on the economic front with reforms initiated to address issues of corruption, currency exchange rates...
  • Iran and Nuclear Weapons: A New Agenda
    Manish    ·   16 Feb, 2013    ·    #3818    ·    Commentary    
    Barely hours after reports of North Korea conducting its third nuclear test, the Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson, Ramin Mehmanparast, reportedly called upon the world powers to abolish nuclear weapons. He stated, “We need to come to ...
  • Iran and Nuclear Weapons: New Negotiations, Old Issues?
    Shubhra Chaturvedi    ·   16 Feb, 2013    ·    #3817    ·    Commentary    
    The announcement about the talks (at Kazakhstan in February 2013) between Iran and the six powers (US, UK, France, Germany, China and Russia), after an eight months break, is being seen as an optimistic breakthrough. What has changed since the l...
  • IPCS Discussion: The Evolving Situation in the East and South China Seas
    Rana Divyank Chaudhary    ·   14 Feb, 2013    ·    #3816    ·    Commentary    
    Prof Kanti Bajpai There are certain core issues which have always cast a shadow over the relations between India and China. The first core issue is the Sino-Indian border. The second is the India-Pakistan-China triangle which continues to ...
  • Book Review: Addressing the Psychosocial Paradigms of Terrorism
    Ashok Bhan    ·   14 Feb, 2013    ·    #3815    ·    Commentary    
    Countering Terrorism: Psychosocial Strategies Updesh Kumar and Manas K. Mandal (Eds.) New Delhi: SAGE Publications, 2012 Pp: 472 Amidst the plethora of literature written across the globe on terrorism and counterterrorism, what difference ...
  • India’s Northeast: Islamist Militancy in Assam?
    Bibhu Prasad Routray    ·   13 Feb, 2013    ·    #3814    ·    Commentary    
    On 6 April 2000, Prafulla Kumar Mahanta, then Chief Minister of Assam presented a statement detailing the activities of the Pakistani Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) in the state legislative assembly. Its document titled, ISI Activities in Ass...
  • J&K after Afzal Guru: Immediate Excuse and Inherent Problems
    D Suba Chandran    ·   13 Feb, 2013    ·    #3813    ·    Commentary    
    Over the last few days, following the hanging of Afzal Guru, the Kashmir valley has been witnessing curfews and protests. While the Kashmir valley, especially Srinagar, is not new to protest politics and curfew governance, what is striking is it...
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