COMMENTARIES
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North Korea's 'Satellite' Launch and International Responses
Vidisha Shukla · 22 Apr, 2009 · #2849 · Commentary
North Korea launched 'Kwangmyongsong-2,' an experimental communications satellite, by carrier rocket 'Unha-2' on 5 April. Despite, numerous reports that it was not a satellite but a rocket that could be used for long-range missiles...
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Northeast Asia and South Asia: Comparative Security Dynamics
Vidisha Shukla · 20 Apr, 2009 · #2848 · Commentary
Report of the IPCS Seminar held at the India International Centre on 1 April 2009
Chair:
Ambassador Salman Haidar, former Foreign Secretary and member of IPCS Executive Committee
Speakers:
Mr PR Chari, Research Professor, IPCS
Dr ...
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Rethinking Civilian Control
Firdaus Ahmed · 17 Apr, 2009 · #2847 · Commentary
Pavan Nair writing a commemorative article in the reputed Economic and Political Weekly on the silver jubilee of India’s militarization of Sachem, deplores the manner in which the Army was permitted to go ahead with its plans in the first ...
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Does China Matter? Elections and Foreign Policy Issues in India
Bhartendu Kumar Singh · 09 Apr, 2009 · #2846 · Commentary
With the general elections kicking off, Indian political parties are out to woo the voters on several issues. However, barring the Indo-US nuclear deal, other foreign policy issues such as relations with China remain marginalized in election manif...
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Blood Emeralds: Feeding the Taliban in Swat
Urvashi J Kumar · 06 Apr, 2009 · #2845 · Commentary
Afghanistan’s Taliban have poppy’s lucre to fund their operations and their Pakistani brethren have found a friend in emeralds. Swat’s emeralds, some of the finest available in the world and next only to the ones mined in Colombi...
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The ‘Context’ of Islamism
Ali Ahmed · 06 Apr, 2009 · #2844 · Commentary
The GWOT is a classic example in which the ‘cause’ has been completely eclipsed by the manner of execution of the terror act of 9/11. Foreign presence in and control of regimes in Arab states, for reasons of energy security, furnished ...
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Obama’s Af-Pak Strategy: Why It Will Not Work
Sanjay Kumar · 06 Apr, 2009 · #2843 · Commentary
Signaling a new approach to the long war in Afghanistan, the new US administration announced a comprehensive new strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan on 27 March. Pakistan which expected a tougher strategy by Obama has reasons to cheer it.
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Is China’s Space Militarization a Threat to India?
Radhakrishna Rao · 06 Apr, 2009 · #2842 · Commentary
A recent fact-filled 78-page analysis of China’s rapidly expanding military capabilities by the Pentagon with a focus on its developing “disruptive technologies,” points to Chinese advances in acquiring the capability to attack s...
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Obama’s Af-Pak Strategy
Amit Kumar Gupta · 06 Apr, 2009 · #2841 · Commentary
A new strategy has been unveiled by the Obama Administration, for both Afghanistan and Pakistan. The most prominent feature that stands out is its intent to make Afghanistan self-supporting in terms of its security, and also enabling it to shore u...
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CTBT Redux
Arundhati Ghose · 30 Mar, 2009 · #2840 · Commentary
Today India is a declared nuclear weapon state, with a nuclear doctrine and a recognition, however reluctant, by the international community that India is a responsible nuclear state with an impeccable proliferation record, except for the die-hard...
