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  • South Korean Posture on the Indo-US Deal and NSG
    Dr Sandip Kumar Mishra    ·   15 Oct, 2007    ·    #2393    ·    Commentary    
    The Indian Foreign Minister, Pranab Mukherjee, visited South Korea from 16 to 18 September. Besides bilateral issues, he also discussed the prospect of South Korean support for India in the 45-member Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG). The spokespers...
  • Fukuda's Accession: Implications for India
    Rajesh Kapoor    ·   10 Oct, 2007    ·    #2392    ·    Commentary    
    The recent accession of Yasuo Fukuda to the Prime Minister's post following Shinzo Abe's resignation shows that seniority won over popularity for the post of Prime Minister. Taro Aso, Secretary General of the Liberal Democratic Par...
  • Poor Policing and Weak Intelligence Gathering
    M Shamsur Rabb Khan    ·   10 Oct, 2007    ·    #2391    ·    Commentary    
    On 3 October 2007 the Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil outlined some crucial concerns in the fight against terrorism in New Delhi, at the conference of Directors-General and Inspectors-General of Police, like low police-population ratio, inadeq...
  • Non-Traditional Security and International Cooperation between China and India
       ·   10 Oct, 2007    ·    #2390    ·    Commentary    
    Speaker: Prof. Wang Dehua, Director, Institute of South and Central Asia Studies, Shanghai The concept of "non-traditional security" in China is very new, with the term being rarely spoken of about three years ago. However, in recent ye...
  • Myanmar in Turmoil and the Indian Response
    Anushree Bhattacharya    ·   04 Oct, 2007    ·    #2389    ·    Commentary    
    On 15 August 2007, the military-ruled Myanmar government hiked the prices of diesel and petrol by 100 per cent and of compressed natural gas used by buses by 500 per cent. The resultant sharp price rise brought further economic hardships to an a...
  • The November Elections and the Nepali Maoists
    Uddhab P Pyakurel    ·   04 Oct, 2007    ·    #2388    ·    Commentary    
    The Nepalese are enthusiastic to draft their own constitution through the convening of a Constituent Assembly (CA), an unfulfilled demand for the last six decades. Till September, there was hope that the November elections will take place and th...
  • Combating International Terrorism
       ·   01 Oct, 2007    ·    #2387    ·    Commentary    
    Report of Seminar held at the IPCS on 24 September 2007 Speaker: Raphael Francis Perl Terrorism and Security Analyst Congressional Research Service (CRS), Washington DC, USA India and the US both face the threat of terrorism. Even whil...
  • The Baloch Angle
    Chiranjib Haldar    ·   01 Oct, 2007    ·    #2386    ·    Commentary    
    Balochistan seems to be in the news for all the right or wrong reasons. Is it because it straddles Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan, borders the Arabian Sea, and is a vast and sparsely populated province occupying 43 per cent of Pakistani territor...
  • India-Myanmar Relations
       ·   01 Oct, 2007    ·    #2385    ·    Commentary    
    Report of Seminar held at the IPCS on 18 September 2007 Chair: Amb Eric Gonsalves Panelists: Mr Soe Myint, Editor, Mizzima News Prof Baladas Ghoshal, Senior Fellow, Centre for Policy Research Prof Man Mohini Kaul, Associate Professor,...
  • Thailand's Investment Strategy in India's Northeast
    Vibhanshu Shekhar    ·   29 Sep, 2007    ·    #2384    ·    Commentary    
    During his four-day visit to Assam, Meghalaya and Tripura from 21-25 June 2007, Thailand's Commerce Minister, Krik Krai Jirapet expressed interest in investing in the region and identified it as a zone of convergence between Thailand's L...
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