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  • HIV/AIDS Crisis & India's Security
    Happymon Jacob    ·   04 Jul, 2005    ·    #1780    ·    Commentary    
    HIV/AIDS is an imminent danger that India faces even as it marches towards big power status. The contemporary milieu is of enormous importance for the emergence of India as a power in the international system. This is because India's dexteri...
  • Defining India-US Defence Relations
       ·   01 Jul, 2005    ·    #1779    ·    Commentary    
    Pranab Mukherjee and Donald Rumsfeld signed the Defence Framework Agreement in Washington on June 28. It defined the parameters of strategic cooperation between the world's oldest and the largest democracies for the next ten years. It i...
  • Maritime Legal Conundrum
    Vijay Sakhuja    ·   29 Jun, 2005    ·    #1778    ·    Commentary    
    In the last three months, there have been two major legal debacles in cases relating to terror and crime in India. The first case relates to the acquittal of pirates who hijacked MV Alondra Rainbow in November 1999. The second case involves the ...
  • Alternative Approaches to Security
       ·   28 Jun, 2005    ·    #1777    ·    Commentary    
    Discussants: Dr Sudha Pai, Gopi Arora, Dr Varun Sahni PR Chari Studies on alternative approaches to security are a core interest of IPCS and an element of its original charter drafted in 1996. Indeed, the very first project un...
  • MANPADS Menace
    Prashant Dikshit    ·   27 Jun, 2005    ·    #1776    ·    Commentary    
    MANPADS is the abbreviation for Man Portable Air Defence Systems and these are surface to air missiles fired from the shoulder like a rifle. These military weapon systems were designed to engage and destroy hostile aircraft operating at very low...
  • Estimating China's defence expenditure
    Bhartendu Kumar Singh    ·   24 Jun, 2005    ·    #1775    ·    Commentary    
    Almost all great powers dedicate a considerable proportion of their finances on defence and China is no exception. However, while the defence budget of other nations are relatively more transparent, China's remains a mystery. Though China ha...
  • Enlightened Moderation and Kashmir Quagmire
    KS Manjunath    ·   23 Jun, 2005    ·    #1774    ·    Commentary    
    On a recent visit to Australia and New Zealand, Pakistan President Musharraf acknowledged his 'dubious' distinction of having fought the Indians in armed conflicts and now seeing himself as 'eminently qualified' to play the '...
  • Hurriyat, J&K and Pakistan: Perspectives from Jammu
    Ranjeet Kalra    ·   23 Jun, 2005    ·    #1773    ·    Commentary    
    The recent statement by Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf declaring the visiting leaders of the Hurriyat Conference as the true representatives of the people of Kashmir and the subsequent silence by Indian foreign ministry has once again under...
  • European
       ·   22 Jun, 2005    ·    #1772    ·    Commentary    
    In the early 1960s, India was among the first countries to establish diplomatic relations with the former European Economic Community (ECC). If trade has always been a driving force and economic relations have rapidly progressed, even this domai...
  • NPT Review Conference
       ·   22 Jun, 2005    ·    #1771    ·    Commentary    
    Discussants: Dr Rajesh Rajgopalan, Amb Arundhati Ghose, Mr Munish Puri Chair: PR Chari PR Chari Any post mortem of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference (RevCon) would keep in mind the following two statements. F...
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