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  • Global Nuclear Zero: Is Skepticism Logical?
    Yogesh Joshi    ·   05 Mar, 2010    ·    #3069    ·    Commentary    
    After the 2007 New York Times article of the famous gang of four retired American Secretaries of State and Secretaries of Defence, nuclear weapons elimination has again caught the attention of the whole world. The election of President Obama and...
  • India and Pakistan: Need for Creative Solutions?
    Pia Malhotra    ·   05 Mar, 2010    ·    #3068    ·    Commentary    
    Nirupama Rao and Salman Bashir, the foreign ministers of India and Pakistan, met at New Delhi on 25 February to discuss bilateral issues, and not surprisingly, the meeting did not result in a concrete statement. Newspaper and magazine articles d...
  • Questioning Defence Spending
    Firdaus Ahmed    ·   03 Mar, 2010    ·    #3067    ·    Commentary    
    India intends spending an equivalent amount it spent on armaments over the last decade in half the time this decade. Whether this US$50 billion is necessary is a valid and timely question. Multiple arguments in favour of this spending are given ...
  • The Pro-Talks Argument
    Ali Ahmed    ·   03 Mar, 2010    ·    #3066    ·    Commentary    
    India and Pakistan are talking again. If that is taken as good enough, then the fact that little progress was made in the latest round of talks is not taken amiss. Those happy with the outcome argue that since Pakistan has not obliged India ...
  • China and ASEAN: Reviewing Relations
    Rukmani Gupta    ·   25 Feb, 2010    ·    #3065    ·    Commentary    
    China has accorded special importance to its relations with Southeast Asia and the China-ASEAN Free Trade Agreement (FTA) launched at the beginning of the year reflects this. Over the last decade ASEAN-China trade has grown exponentially, from U...
  • Tackling Maoist Terror
    M Shamsur Rabb Khan    ·   18 Feb, 2010    ·    #3064    ·    Commentary    
    In one of the biggest strikes on a state force on 15 February, armed Maoist guerrillas stormed an Eastern Frontier Rifles (ERF) camp at Shilda, 75km from Midnapore town and killed 24 jawans, besides looting 40 weapons. The outrageous and daring ...
  • Evolving a Strategic Matrix
    Pankaj Jha    ·   17 Feb, 2010    ·    #3063    ·    Commentary    
    In the backdrop of an increasingly assertive China and an uncertain Pakistan, India has embarked on a major strategic offensive which includes taking American allies on board, cooperating with countries that are apprehensive of China and, last b...
  • Then They Came for Him
    Zarin Ahmad    ·   12 Feb, 2010    ·    #3062    ·    Commentary    
    Just when the elections were over in Sri Lanka and it was time to pick up the proverbial pieces together and restore normalcy in the war-torn island, a new unfortunate chapter has begun. Former army chief and joint opposition candidate in the re...
  • India and Pakistan: Losing time
    Ali Ahmed    ·   10 Feb, 2010    ·    #3061    ·    Commentary    
    The offer of two dates to Pakistan for a meeting of Foreign Secretaries this February has come not a day too early. That the preceding muscle flexing by General Kayani in a power point presentation on the Pakistani Army’s world view to jou...
  • Ensuring India’s Nuclear Energy Industry Growth
    Nandakumar J    ·   09 Feb, 2010    ·    #3060    ·    Commentary    
    Domestic factors pose more serious challenges than external factors to India’s nuclear energy industry development. While there have been no security lapses reported about the safety of nuclear power facilities that are protected against n...
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