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  • Dealing with Pakistan: The Nuclear Dimension
    Sanjay Kumar    ·   22 Dec, 2008    ·    #2759    ·    Commentary    
    Pakistan raising the nuclear ante to stymie India is along expected lines. Speaking to a (private TV channel) on 5 December 2008, Dr Samar Mubarakmand, a Pakistani nuclear scientist, said that Pakistan was competent to launch nuclear missiles at...
  • Post 26/11 Strategy Recomendation For India
    Ali Ahmed    ·   22 Dec, 2008    ·    #2758    ·    Commentary    
    The 'proactive' school of thought believes that India should respond rigorously to the Mumbai terrorist attacks. The argument is that the attackers need to be punished and future attacks deterred. India's credibility is also at stake...
  • China's Peaceful Rise: Foreign Policy or Expansionist Strategy?
    Mayank S Bubna    ·   18 Dec, 2008    ·    #2757    ·    Commentary    
    Chair: Maj Gen (Retd) Dipankar Banerjee Speaker: Professor Jing Huang, Visiting Professor, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore Prof Jing Huang Chinas meteoric ec...
  • LTTE and Security Implications for India
    RR Vinod    ·   18 Dec, 2008    ·    #2756    ·    Commentary    
    'India is our friend' said the LTTE leader Parbhakaran in his Heroes' Day address in November 2008. 'At no stage did we ever consider India as an enemy force. Our people always consider India as our friend. They have great expect...
  • Pakhtunkhwa Debate Resurfaces in Pakistan
    Rekha Chakravarthi    ·   18 Dec, 2008    ·    #2755    ·    Commentary    
    Punjab reverberates as the land of Punjabis; so does Sindh and Balochistan as the land of Sindhis and Baluchis. If Pakhtun's (Pashtuns or Pashtoons) are the ethnic majority of Pakistan's North West Frontier Province (NWFP), then why is t...
  • Look South Policy? Japan's Approach to India in the 21st Century
    Tomoko Kiyota    ·   16 Dec, 2008    ·    #2754    ·    Commentary    
    Relations between India and Japan have made remarkable progress since Japanese Prime Minister Mori visited New Delhi in 2000. In December 2001, Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee visited Tokyo, and the Indo-Japan Joint Declaration was announced...
  • BIMSTEC: Need to Move Beyond the Linkage Syndrome
    Yogendra Singh    ·   15 Dec, 2008    ·    #2753    ·    Commentary    
    The idea of BIMSTEC (Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation), an amalgamation of Thailand's Look West Policy and India's Look East Policy, now seems ready to take-off ten years after its inception....
  • China Factor in India-ASEAN Relations
       ·   15 Dec, 2008    ·    #2752    ·    Commentary    
    Session I Chair: Prof. Madhu Bhalla, Head, East Asian Studies, University of Delhi Speaker 1: Dr. Debashis Chakraborty, Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Foreign Trade Speaker 2: Dr. Vibhanshu Shekhar, Research Associate, School ...
  • The Shanghai Cooperation Organization
       ·   10 Dec, 2008    ·    #2751    ·    Commentary    
    Chair: Prof. PR Chari, Research Professor, IPCS Speaker: Dr. Thomas S. Wilkins, Assistant Professor, Centre for International Security Studies, University of Sydney Dr. Thomas S. Wilkins The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) ha...
  • Mumbai Attacks: The Pakistani View
    Tanya Saira George    ·   07 Dec, 2008    ·    #2750    ·    Commentary    
    The Mumbai carnage has been a topic of debate in Pakistan and has produced a flurry of reactions. The initial reactions, during the first and second day were extremely sympathetic. However, this initial reaction of sympathy changed substan...
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