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  • Book Review: A Retrospective on Reaffirming Ties East of India
    Vibhanshu Shekhar    ·   26 Nov, 2012    ·    #3762    ·    Commentary    
    Two Decades of India’s Look East Policy: Partnership For Peace, Progress And Prosperity AN Ram (Ed) New Delhi: Manohar, 2012 pp: 257 Price: Rs 695/- The book is a significant academic exercise as it involves the who’s who of t...
  • Book Review: Implications of Asia's Rising Powers for the US
    PR Chari    ·   26 Nov, 2012    ·    #3761    ·    Commentary    
    Chinese and Indian Strategic Behavior: Growing Power and Alarm George J Gilboy and Eric Heginbotham New Delhi: Cambridge University Press, 2012 pp. xxx+ 346 Price: Rs 995/- The two authors are MIT alumni, but their work experience differs...
  • Peace Alert: Final Stages of Indo-Naga Talks?
    Madhumita Das    ·   26 Nov, 2012    ·    #3760    ·    Commentary    
    The six-and-a-half decade old Indo-Naga conflict appears to be finally petering out. Talks between the Government of India and the main insurgent group the Nationalist Socialist Council of Nagalim (NSCN I-M) have reportedly entered its most deci...
  • Cyclone Nilam and the Cauvery Basin: Lessons Learnt
    Roomana Hukil    ·   23 Nov, 2012    ·    #3759    ·    Commentary    
    On 30 October 2012, the Supreme Court directed the Cauvery Monitoring Committee (CMC) to examine and look into the plausible issues that are likely to stem out from Tamil Nadu and Karnataka on sharing of the already contested Cauvery basin. In t...
  • Pakistan: President versus Judiciary versus Military
    Rana Banerji    ·   21 Nov, 2012    ·    #3758    ·    Commentary    
    General Kayani’s thinly veiled warning to the higher Judiciary issued in his 05 November 2012 speech to senior Army officers continues to elicit adverse civil society comments and determined ripostes from the Chief Justice himself. It has ...
  • Pakistan: Why is the Military not opening a front in North-Waziristan?
    Sander Ruben Aarten    ·   15 Nov, 2012    ·    #3757    ·    Commentary    
    Over the years, North-Waziristan (NWA) has become the center of Taliban-affiliated terrorism. Concurrently, Pakistan has met heavy international pressure to launch an attack on terrorist safe havens inside NWA.  Pakistan has announced and s...
  • China: Strategic Implications of Second Stealth Fighter
    Radhakrishna Rao    ·   14 Nov, 2012    ·    #3756    ·    Commentary    
    The recent maiden flight of China’s second stealth fighter twin engine J-31 Falcon Eagle, which claimed to feature fifth generation combat aircraft technologies, was not a wholly unexpected event. The test flight, which coincided with the ...
  • Fragile Cities: Karachi and Detroit
    Lidia Leoni    ·   12 Nov, 2012    ·    #3755    ·    Commentary    
    The definition of the concept of “Fragile City” encounters certain challenges. Just as the term “Fragile State”, “Fragile City” lacks an authoritative and commonly accepted definition and terminology; contrary...
  • Obama-II and the Indo-US Relationship: Old Issues, New Opportunities
    PR Chari    ·   09 Nov, 2012    ·    #3754    ·    Commentary    
    Informed opinion ascribes President Obama’s victory to his dedicated supporters among women, Hispanics, African Americans, young persons and working class Whites revealing the changed demographics in the most powerful country in the world....
  • Obama-II and the Korean Peninsula: The Road Ahead
    Rajaram Panda    ·   09 Nov, 2012    ·    #3753    ·    Commentary    
    Will newly re-elected US President Barack Obama’s Korean strategy in his second administration undergo any major change, given North Korea’s continued belligerence and attitude of non-cooperation on the matter of resolving the nuclea...
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