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  • 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...
  • India's First Multilateral FTA: Lessons Learnt
    Vibhanshu Shekhar    ·   14 Sep, 2008    ·    #2679    ·    Commentary    
    After more than twenty meetings of the ASEAN-India Trade Negotiating Committee (AITNC) and four rounds of ASEAN-India Economic Ministers' meetings, India and ASEAN have finally agreed to kick start the FTA in goods. The ASEAN-India FTA in go...
  • Pakistan Again: Should India Stage a 'Walk Out'?
    Narendra Kumar Tripathi    ·   14 Sep, 2008    ·    #2678    ·    Commentary    
    India and Pakistan have been each other's 'enemy number one' for more than sixty years. Even though China did try to make an entry into this dyad in 1962, yet it effectively remained the 'other'. We are gradually coming to se...
  • A Roadmap for Kashmir
    Firdaus Ahmed    ·   14 Sep, 2008    ·    #2677    ·    Commentary    
    The crisis having blown over, Kashmir is currently simmering. With the Hurriyat having tasted blood it is looking to exercise a spoilers' influence on the forthcoming elections to the state assembly. Both political parties, the PDP and the N...
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