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  • North Korea: Third Nuclear Test
    Rajaram Panda    ·   13 Feb, 2013    ·    #3812    ·    Commentary    
    In the most audacious defiance of UN warnings, North Korea conducted its third nuclear test on 12 February 2013. What does this imply for both regional and global security? With Pyongyang having taken a crucial step towards its goal of building ...
  • Gwadar: Can India Checkmate China?
    Vijay Sakhuja    ·   12 Feb, 2013    ·    #3811    ·    Commentary    
    Pakistan’s decision to hand over commercial operations at the Gwadar port to the Chinese Overseas Port Holdings, a state-owned company, does not come as a surprise. Interestingly, for some, it was a deliberate and a ‘smart ploy&rsquo...
  • Nuclear Weapons: Can They Be Made Strategically Obsolete?
    Debak Das    ·   12 Feb, 2013    ·    #3810    ·    Commentary    
    With U.S. President Barack Obama’s second term in office and the possible appointment of Chuck Hagel as his Secretary of Defence, there is a widespread belief in the possibility of the movement for nuclear disarmament receiving a fillip. T...
  • South China Sea: Revival of the Cold War and Balance of Power?
    Anu Krishnan    ·   08 Feb, 2013    ·    #3809    ·    Commentary    
    Japan’s newly elected Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has digressed from his hardliner approach by extending the olive branch to China over the South China Sea (SCS) dispute. China, however, has chosen to maintain its vigorous stance over the di...
  • Naxal Violence: The Latehar Carnage and the Forgotten Lessons
    Deepak Kumar Nayak    ·   08 Feb, 2013    ·    #3808    ·    Commentary    
    Ten jawans (nine from the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and one from the state’s commando force ‘Jharkhand Jaguars’) were killed in an ambush carried out by the Communist Party of India – Maoist (CPI-Maoist), presum...
  • IPCS Discussion: Preventing Nuclear Use
    Debak Das    ·   04 Feb, 2013    ·    #3807    ·    Commentary    
    Chair: Prof R Rajaraman   Dr. Rebecca Johnson   Nuclear Weapons have the capacity to cause catastrophic humanitarian harm. To work towards the elimination of nuclear weapons, the catastrophic health and environmenta...
  • India and Pakistan: The Kargil Redux
    PR Chari    ·   04 Feb, 2013    ·    #3806    ·    Commentary    
    Hardly has the dust settled on the Indo-Pak allegations and counter-allegations regarding the tragic death of two Indian and two Pakistani soldiers following cross border firings across the LOC, and the trade and transit between the two countrie...
  • The ASEAN: Challenges Facing the New Secretary General
    Amruta Karambelkar    ·   31 Jan, 2013    ·    #3805    ·    Commentary    
    Since 9 January 2013, Le Luong Minh is appointed as the new Secretary General of the ASEAN for the term of 2013-2017. Mr Le is the first Vietnamese to serve this post. He was Vietnam’s former deputy minister and is known as an experienced ...
  • India and the Melting Arctic
    Vijay Sakhuja    ·   31 Jan, 2013    ·    #3804    ·    Commentary    
    After an extensive overhaul and modernisation spanning over two years at the Zvezdochka shipyard, Sindhurakshak, an Indian diesel-electric submarine of Russian origin, was handed over to the Indian navy on 26 January 2013. Three days later, the ...
  • Special Commentary: India and Bhutan
    Dil Bahadur Rahut & Medha Bisht    ·   28 Jan, 2013    ·    #3803    ·    Commentary    
    His Majesty Jigme Namgyel Wangchuck, the King of Bhutan is visiting India and was the chief guest at India's 64th Republic Day parade on 26 January 2013. This follows an earlier visit (in January 2013) by External Affairs Minister Salman Khu...
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