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  • Q&A: Terror Tentacles in Karnataka
    Devyani Srivastava    ·   29 Jul, 2008    ·    #2629    ·    Commentary    
    The buzzing city of Bangalore was almost paralyzed with a series of eight low intensity blasts across the city on Friday afternoon, 25 July, that killed one person and left seven injured. The places targeted include Madivala checkpost, the adjoi...
  • India's Role in the Global Disarmament Debate
    Gretchen Smith    ·   29 Jul, 2008    ·    #2628    ·    Commentary    
    Twenty years after the Reykjavik Summit, a group of scholars convened to examine the progress that had been made since the meeting between the disarmament pioneers - Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev. The participants recognized that in additi...
  • Japanese Security Policy: Pragmatism in the Face of Dilemma
    Rajesh Kapoor    ·   29 Jul, 2008    ·    #2627    ·    Commentary    
    The present security discourse in Japan, seeking 'normalcy', has its roots in the post-World War II reforms and remilitarization that took place during the occupation era. Since then, while the conservative and nationalist factions in Ja...
  • Myanmar: Be Careful What You Wish For
    Ann Koppuzha    ·   20 Jul, 2008    ·    #2626    ·    Commentary    
    Myanmarese exiles, the international media, and certain first ladies have painted the power struggle in Myanmar as black-and-white, good versus evil. The reality is much more complicated. Multiple ethnic groups constitute Myanmar and since its i...
  • AQ Khan: Nuclear Politics
    Prashant Hosur    ·   20 Jul, 2008    ·    #2625    ·    Commentary    
    After living under virtual house arrest for four years, Pakistani nuclear scientist AQ Khan has shocked the world by recanting his earlier confessions on television that he was 'solely' responsible for the sale of nuclear technology to I...
  • India-Specific Safeguards Agreement: Indian and American Responses
    Gretchen Smith    ·   15 Jul, 2008    ·    #2624    ·    Commentary    
    The India-Specific Safeguards Agreement drew support and ire in India and the US after it was made public on 9 July 2008. The Agreement galvanized Indian opposition to the Indo-US nuclear deal and further provoked the non-proliferation lobby in ...
  • Q&A: India-Specific Safeguards Agreement
    Gretchen Smith    ·   13 Jul, 2008    ·    #2623    ·    Commentary    
    On 7 July 2008, the Congress-led UPA government "initialled" the India-specific Safeguards Agreement; and, a day later, submitted this document to the IAEA Board of Governors for its approval. The document's preamble states that In...
  • Meeting the Challenge of the Kabul Blast
       ·   13 Jul, 2008    ·    #2622    ·    Commentary    
    The dust has at last settled down from the dastardly terrorist attack on the Indian Embassy at Kabul on 7 July. The Embassy has started functioning normally and visas are being issued to Afghan applicants, whose future hopes are closely linked t...
  • Religious Nationalism is not Dead Yet
    Abhishek Raman    ·   13 Jul, 2008    ·    #2621    ·    Commentary    
    Bal Thackeray, supreme leader of the Shiv Sena, one of India's Hindu nationalist parties, has called for the formation of 'Hindu' suicide squads to counter the growing threat of Islamic terrorism. His comments came after a bomb blast...
  • Chinese Companies Conquer the West
    Akhmed Tillayev    ·   13 Jul, 2008    ·    #2620    ·    Commentary    
    Of late, many experts have observed the expansion of Chinese companies in international markets, and more importantly the rise of their role in international economic processes. In the framework of "Go Out" policy initiated in 2002, Ch...
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