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  • The Hyderabad Bombers: Will Anyone Learn Anything?
    PR Chari    ·   03 Sep, 2007    ·    #2366    ·    Commentary    
    Wise men, they say, learn from others' experience; fools learn from their own experience. But, what can one say about a Government that, like the proverbial Bourbons of France, learns nothing and forgets nothing. These dour musings were...
  • The Meeting of Experts on Biological Weapons
       ·   31 Aug, 2007    ·    #2365    ·    Commentary    
    The Meeting of Experts (MX) for the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC) was held from 20 to 24 August 2007 in Geneva to discuss 'Ways and means to enhance national implementation, including enforcement of national legislation, str...
  • Bullets vs. Ballots: Foreign Policy Decision-Making in China and India
    Bhartendu Kumar Singh    ·   31 Aug, 2007    ·    #2364    ·    Commentary    
    The recent statement by a prominent politician, that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh would have been shot with a single bullet for "bluffing" the nation over the Indo-US nuclear deal had he been the premier of China, has added a new dime...
  • India-Southeast Asia Relations
       ·   29 Aug, 2007    ·    #2363    ·    Commentary    
    Chair: Amb A N Ram, Ex-Chairman, Council for Security Cooperation in Asia-Pacific-India Panelists: Amb B S Das, A Consultant on Revival of Nalanda University Programme Dr. Shankari Sundararaman, Associate Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru Univer...
  • India's prospects as a great power
       ·   24 Aug, 2007    ·    #2362    ·    Commentary    
    Chair: Prof Varun Sahani Speaker: Prof Sumit Ganguly Introductory remarks: Prof Varun Sahni Great powers are states which have system shaping capability and intention. Both capability and intentions are important requisites of great powe...
  • Pakistan's Nuclear Doctrine and Strategy
       ·   23 Aug, 2007    ·    #2361    ·    Commentary    
    Report of Seminar held at the IPCS Conference Room on 16 August 2007 Chair: Maj Gen (Retd) Dipankar Banerjee Speaker: Dr Manpreet Sethi Discussant: Dr Reshmi Kazi Dr Manpreet Sethi Pakistan regards its nuclear weapons as its most pr...
  • Implications Of Russian Withdrawal From Arms Control Treaties
    Neha Kumar    ·   23 Aug, 2007    ·    #2360    ·    Commentary    
    The US decision to base interceptors and radars in the Czech Republic and Poland, as a part of its Ballistic Missile Defence shield in Europe, has forced Russia to take a series of counter measures. Offensive measures include deployment of S-400...
  • India, China and the Prospects of Asian Economic Community
    Bhartendu Kumar Singh    ·   21 Aug, 2007    ·    #2359    ·    Commentary    
    Prime Minister Manmohan Singh first envisioned an Asian Economic Community (AEC) stretching from the Himalayas to the Pacific and constituting an 'arc of advantage'. The same idea has now been articulated by the External Affairs Minister...
  • From MTCR to Confidence Building Measures
    Neha Kumar    ·   21 Aug, 2007    ·    #2358    ·    Commentary    
    The Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) is a voluntary association of countries which share the goals of non-proliferation of unmanned delivery systems capable of delivering weapons of mass destruction, and which seek to coordinate national...
  • Ceasefire Sine Die?
    Chiranjib Haldar    ·   20 Aug, 2007    ·    #2357    ·    Commentary    
    The ceasefire between the National Socialist Council of Nagaland-Isak-Muivah (NSCN-IM) and the Government of India was extended sine die on 31 July 2007. The truce in Nagaland has been extended every 12 months since 1997, except in 2005, ...
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