COMMENTARIES
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Countering the Naxal Threat – II: a Case for Specialized Units
Radha Vinod Raju · 14 Jun, 2010 · #3150 · Commentary
The response of Bihar and Andhra Pradesh to the Naxal’s threat needs to be analyzed. Studies for the 1995-2005 period have shown that even when the Naxalites boycotted elections in Bihar, they allowed their supporters to vote for the rulin...
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Countering the Naxal Threat – I: An Analysis of Earlier Efforts
Radha Vinod Raju · 14 Jun, 2010 · #3149 · Commentary
By the latest count, over 220 districts of India are Naxal affected. Without going into the merits of their ideology, one has to admit that the group has committed leaders. At least one of the leaders recently arrested, hails from an established...
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Recent Developments in Jamaat-e-Islami, Bangladesh
Sonali Huria · 10 Jun, 2010 · #3148 · Commentary
Over a hundred members, including leaders and activists of the Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI), Bangladesh’s largest Islamist party, and its student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir (ICS) were arrested in Dhaka on 1 June, after they defied a ban imposed b...
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Recent Developments in Jamat-e-Islami, Pakistan
Arshi Saleem Hashmi · 08 Jun, 2010 · #3147 · Commentary
From a student of Sociology to Islamic Studies, a comrade of National Student Federation (NSF) a progressive left wing group to Jamiat-e-Tulaba activist (JeI student group), Syed Munnawar Hasan is the new Amir of Jamat-e-Islami (JeI). Considered...
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Obama’s National Security Strategy: an Assessment
Yogesh Joshi · 08 Jun, 2010 · #3146 · Commentary
The Goldwater-Nichols Defense Department Reorganization Act of 1986, under section 603, mandates the US government to come out with a ‘National Security Strategy (NSS)’. NSS seeks to purport the US perspective on its immediate and lo...
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Agriculture: Adding New Dynamics to the Indo-US Relationship
Yogesh Joshi · 08 Jun, 2010 · #3145 · Commentary
‘Sustainable agriculture’ has been quoted in the National Security Strategy of the President Obama as one of the important areas of cooperation between India and USA. To this effect, in the recently concluded Indo-US Strategic ...
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INDU: A Step towards Building Robust Indian Strategic Thinking
Kriti Singh · 08 Jun, 2010 · #3144 · Commentary
“A careful analysis of strategic culture could help policymakers establish more accurate and empathetic understandings of how different actors perceive the game being played, reducing uncertainty and other information problems in strategic...
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The Annual Report of the MoD: Need for Change?
Bhartendu Kumar Singh · 08 Jun, 2010 · #3143 · Commentary
Every year, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) comes out with an Annual Report like many other ministries in the Government of India. Considered as a key document on India’s defence policy, the report covers the financial year and is published ...
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Nepal: What Next?
Kriti Singh · 02 Jun, 2010 · #3142 · Commentary
After the end to the brief but traumatic reign of King Gyanendra, in the first ever historic meeting of the Constituent Assembly (CA) on 28 May 2008, Nepal was formally declared as a Federal Democratic Republic. It was followed by Nepal’s ...
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Nepal: What Next?
Nishchal N Pandey · 01 Jun, 2010 · #3141 · Commentary
Nepal's fragile peace process just met with the most serious accident of its kind. The country's first ever Constituent Assembly (CA) could not draft a new Constitution by the stipulated deadline of 28 May. To make matters worse, its own...
