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  • India and the CTBT: Renewing the Debate
    Priyanka Subramaniam    ·   23 May, 2009    ·    #2876    ·    Commentary    
    Commenting on the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) in September 1996, the then Minister for External Affairs, IK Gujral said “It is not a ‘comprehensive treaty,’ (as) it permits the nuclear weapon states to continue their wea...
  • Obama and Nuclear Disarmament: A New Push?
    Vidisha Shukla and Kimberley Layton    ·   22 May, 2009    ·    #2875    ·    Commentary    
    Report of the IPCS Panel Discussion held on 8 May 2009  Chair: Maj. Gen. (retd.) Dipankar Banerjee, Director, Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies Panelists: Amb. Arundhati Ghose, Former Permanent Representative of India to the ...
  • Post-LTTE: India’s Policy Options on Sri Lanka’s Ethnic Issue
    N Manoharan    ·   20 May, 2009    ·    #2874    ·    Commentary    
    The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), who have been waging a relentless war for a separate Tamil homeland, have now been tamed. The LTTE’s top leadership has been wiped out; most of its cadre are dead; some have surrendered and the re...
  • One Year after the Polls – The State of Bhutanese Democracy
    Marian Gallenkamp    ·   20 May, 2009    ·    #2873    ·    Commentary    
    2008 has been a year of tremendous change in the small Kingdom of Bhutan and for its people. There has probably never been a case before, in which such contradictory events took place within a few months, while at the same time surprisingly in per...
  • Crushing Democracy in Myanmar
    Loveleen Kaur    ·   20 May, 2009    ·    #2872    ·    Commentary    
    Aung San Suu Kyi is a living symbol of democracy and hope in Myanmar. In last two decades the military junta has kept her under house arrest for more than thirteen long years. At a time when she was about to be released after completing her house ...
  • Maritime Security: Indian and American Perspectives
    Kimberley Layton and Marian Gallenkamp    ·   20 May, 2009    ·    #2871    ·    Commentary    
    Report of the IPCS Seminar held on 30 April 2009 Chair: Maj Gen (retd.) Dipankar Banerjee, Director, IPCS Speakers: Capt. (retd.) Edward Lundquist, US Navy Cmde. (retd.), Ranjit Rai, Vice President, Indian Maritime Foundation Edward ...
  • Indo-US Relations in the Second Manmohan Singh Administration
    Rajeswari Pillai Rajagopalan    ·   18 May, 2009    ·    #2870    ·    Commentary    
    With a decisive mandate for the Congress (I)-led UPA government, the general assumption is that there will be continuity in India’s relations especially with the United States. With the Congress (I) not having to depend on the Left parties ...
  • Nepal on the Brink, Again
    Oliver Housden    ·   18 May, 2009    ·    #2869    ·    Commentary    
    The resignation of Nepali prime-minister Pushpa Kumar Dahal “Prachanda” on 4 May is a lethal blow to the Nepali peace process. Prachanda’s announcement was made in protest at President Ram Baran Yadav’s move to reverse the ...
  • Prachanda’s Resignation and the Turmoil in Nepal
    Sangeeta Thapliyal    ·   18 May, 2009    ·    #2868    ·    Commentary    
    The present turmoil in Nepal began with the Maoists trying to establish “civilian supremacy” over the military. The major political parties such as the Nepali Congress, Communist Party of Nepal (United Marxist Leninist) were in favour ...
  • An Indo-Israeli Handshake in Space
    Radhakrishna Rao    ·   18 May, 2009    ·    #2867    ·    Commentary    
    The successful launch of India’s all weather , microwave imaging satellite RISAT-2, which ISRO(Indian Space Research Organisation) says was realized in association with Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) in the early hours of 20 April was a ...
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