COMMENTARIES
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Af-Pak Diary: A Critique of the Blackwill Plan to Partition Afghanistan
D Suba Chandran · 23 Dec, 2010 · #3301 · Commentary
In an article published in the Times of India, titled ‘Plan B in Afghanistan’, Ambassador Robert Blackwill concludes, “Accepting the de facto partition of Afghanistan is hardly an ideal outcome in Afghanistan. But it is better ...
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Games Nations Play: China and North Korea
Ruhee Neog · 21 Dec, 2010 · #3300 · Commentary
Strategic analysis is only as good as the data it is based on, and the informational black hole that is North Korea makes it a dangerous and unpredictable player on the global stage. Alongside it stands China, North Korea’s most significan...
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Af-Pak Diary: Obama’s Afghanistan Review
D Suba Chandran · 21 Dec, 2010 · #3299 · Commentary
The much expected Afghanistan Review by Obama’s administration was finally made public during the third week of December 2010. What does this review say about Obama’s policies and strategies towards Afghanistan?
Obama said, &ldquo...
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Obama’s Vision of a Global Nonproliferation Regime: Two Scenarios
Lydia Walker · 15 Dec, 2010 · #3298 · Commentary
Since he became US President, Barack Obama has placed nuclear nonproliferation and nuclear disarmament on the international agenda. What have been his means? First, he used a public platform to spotlight his personal commitment to nonproli...
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Maoists Eye the Cities
Uddipan Mukherjee · 14 Dec, 2010 · #3297 · Commentary
In the first week of December 2010, the Special Task Force (STF) of Kolkata Police arrested Kanchan alias Sudip Chongdar, the West Bengal state secretary of the banned outfit CPI-Maoist. Along with him, four other top leaders of the group were a...
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What can we expect from the India-China Summit?
Swaran Singh · 14 Dec, 2010 · #3296 · Commentary
As Wen Jiabao and Manmohan Singh begin preparing for their third bilateral summit in New Delhi this week the ghost of their legacies will be haunting their minds. This may well become their last bilateral summit before both leaders move away fro...
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WikiWrecks: An Analysis of Terrorism Financing
Siddharth Ramana · 13 Dec, 2010 · #3295 · Commentary
Revelations by WikiLeaks that the US is critical of Gulf states in their approach against terrorist financing of South Asian groups, including the Taliban and LeT, shed light on an observation which has been documented by counterterrorism offici...
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WikiWrecks: Did the US Double-Cross India?
Radhavinod Raju · 13 Dec, 2010 · #3294 · Commentary
Indian media reactions to the WikiLeaks’ disclosures pertaining to the 26/11 attacks were, to say the least, unfair. One headline read, ‘US backstabbed India after 26/11?’ It is now known that the US agencies had shared intelli...
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Sarkozy’s India Visit: The Nuclear Dimension
Siddharth Ramana · 10 Dec, 2010 · #3293 · Commentary
French President Nicholas Sarkozy’s official visit to India has generated a lot of buzz around the nuclear deals that have been signed. However, the visit is significant also for bolstering international efforts to bring India into the nuc...
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Blast from the Past - The Varanasi Explosion
Firdaus Ahmed · 10 Dec, 2010 · #3292 · Commentary
Varanasi was recently rocked by a terrorist explosion which targeted worshippers at the evening prayers ceremony at the Ghats. Two additional IEDs were recovered later. The Indian Mujahideen (IM), in an email reportedly sent from Mumbai, took re...
