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  • Will the NSG Waiver to India dilute Global Non-Proliferation Norms?
    Nishikant Tiwari    ·   18 Sep, 2008    ·    #2689    ·    Commentary    
    Established in 1975 in response to India's Peaceful Nuclear Explosion (PNE), the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) controls the export and re-transfer of nuclear weapons materials to stop nuclear proliferation. On 6 September 2008, the NSG adopt...
  • Indo-US Nuclear Deal at the Nuclear Suppliers Group
       ·   17 Sep, 2008    ·    #2688    ·    Commentary    
    Report of IPCS Seminar held on 11 September 2008 Chair: Amb Lalit Mansingh, Former Ambassador, United States Speaker: Siddharth Varadarajan, Strategic Affairs Editor, The Hindu Lalit Mansingh The NSG waiver, although historic, flags four ...
  • Pakistan: External Mis-dealings
    Siddharth Ramana    ·   17 Sep, 2008    ·    #2687    ·    Commentary    
    To many commentators Pakistan's workings are strongly influenced by the three A's - America, the Army and Allah. Allah, in this case, alludes to the ubiquitous influence of the Islamic fundamentalists churned out by the thousands from ma...
  • Foreign Policy Orientations of Obama and McCain: Implications for India
    Mohammed Badrul Alam    ·   17 Sep, 2008    ·    #2686    ·    Commentary    
    With the 2008 US Presidential elections entering the final phase, the campaigns of both Barack Obama, the Democratic party candidate and his Republican counterpart, John McCain are in high gear. In terms of foreign policy orientation concerning ...
  • Climate Change and Conflicts along Sea
    Ranjan K Panda    ·   17 Sep, 2008    ·    #2685    ·    Commentary    
    Climate change is a new area of concern worldwide and is estimated to push millions of people into the list of 'environmental refugees.' The Red Cross has identified that 25 million refugees (58 per cent of global total) owe their displa...
  • NSG Waiver: What does it mean for India?
    M Shamsur Rabb Khan    ·   17 Sep, 2008    ·    #2684    ·    Commentary    
    To begin with, the victory at Vienna has greater political standpoint that India has been adhered to by not signing the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) due to its discriminatory nature. Moreover, the deal essentially endorses India's position...
  • Nuclear Deal and Strategic Concerns: Myths and Realities
    Alok Kumar Gupta    ·   17 Sep, 2008    ·    #2683    ·    Commentary    
    The Indo-US nuclear deal has come a long way, with clearance from the NSG. The Prime Minister went to the extent of sacrificing the government rather than compromising with the Left. The need for the deal became evident from the speech of the Le...
  • Emerging Trends of Urban Terrorism
    Devyani Srivastava    ·   15 Sep, 2008    ·    #2682    ·    Commentary    
    With each terrorist blast in India, the challenges facing India get further compounded even as the understanding of the threat posed by terrorism slips deeper into ambivalence. While the investigative agencies were unraveling the puzzle of the A...
  • India's NSG Waiver: Indian and American Responses
    Gretchen Smith    ·   15 Sep, 2008    ·    #2681    ·    Commentary    
    By securing an unprecedented waiver from the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG), India has just completed the most difficult leg of its three-part journey. Should India have failed to make it through, its' dreams of energy independence would have...
  • Countering Terror: New Approaches Required
       ·   14 Sep, 2008    ·    #2680    ·    Commentary    
    The Indian state's vulnerability to terrorist strikes has now been demonstrated regularly and with impunity. The series of attacks this year, from Jaipur, Ahmedabad and Surat and now to Delhi, all possibly by an indigenous terror outfit call...
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