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  • The Unabated Menace of Sea Piracy
    Vijay Sakhuja    ·   22 Feb, 2005    ·    #1653    ·    Commentary    
    The International Maritime Bureau (IMB) 2004 annual piracy report released recently has exhibited the gloomy state of menace of sea piracy in the world's oceans. There were a total of 325 piracy attacks on shipping in 2004. Although, this fi...
  • Democratic Mandate in West Asia and Implications for India
    Beryl Anand    ·   22 Feb, 2005    ·    #1652    ·    Commentary    
    West Asia is currently at the confluence of the most decisive developments of our times. Some of the world's most complex problems are insecurely balanced in this region, which include the Palestinian conflict, the tragedy of Iraq, and the t...
  • Lessons from Iran's Nuclear Stalemate
    Manish Srivastava    ·   21 Feb, 2005    ·    #1651    ·    Commentary    
    In a significant turn of events, the US Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld is believed to have recently remarked that Iran is "years away from having a nuclear weapon" and that the United States would perhaps prefer diplomacy over mi...
  • Insurgent Politics & Dhaka's Role
       ·   19 Feb, 2005    ·    #1650    ·    Commentary    
    Anup Chetia alias Golap Barua, general secretary of the outlawed Indian separatist group, United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA), will end his jail term in Bangladesh on 25 February. He is being detained at Dhaka's central jail ever since hi...
  • Afghanistan and Central Asia
       ·   18 Feb, 2005    ·    #1649    ·    Commentary    
    Speaker: R. Grant Smith, Senior Fellow at Central Asia-Caucasus Institute, School of Advanced International Studies, John Hopkins University. Chair: P R Chari, Research Professor, IPCS P R Chari The chair welcomed R. Grant Smith, a lo...
  • East Asia Diary - January 2005: The Politics of Disaster Relief
       ·   18 Feb, 2005    ·    #1648    ·    Commentary    
    As the Indian Ocean region prepared to usher in a new year, the old dealt it a final blow in the form of the killer waves that snuffed out 200,000 lives. Yet, international politicking continued unabated. It is germane to see how the major p...
  • Dialogue with Naxals: Doomed to Fail
    Prafulla Ketkar    ·   18 Feb, 2005    ·    #1647    ·    Commentary    
    The euphoria over the talks between the Naxalites and the Andhra Pradesh government that began in October last year is over. This initiative, considered an unprecedented move to stop the four-decade history of violence in the State, has ended wi...
  • Why Nuclear Diplomacy Has Failed in US Foreign Policy for North Korea
    Eric Koo Peng Kuan    ·   18 Feb, 2005    ·    #1646    ·    Commentary    
    North Korea's sudden announcement that it has nuclear weapons, along with its withdrawal from the six party talks on its nuclear program, once again signified the failure of disarmament attempts by the USA on potentially dangerous regimes. N...
  • The Situation in Nepal: Possible Outcomes
    Satyabrat Sinha    ·   15 Feb, 2005    ·    #1645    ·    Commentary    
    The King of Nepal, Gyanendra, dismissed the Sher Bahadur Deuba government on 1 February, declared a state of emergency in Nepal that curtails civil liberties and took over the reins of government. The King's dismissal of the Deuba government...
  • The Nepalese Media Survey (January 2005)
    P G Rajamohan    ·   14 Feb, 2005    ·    #1644    ·    Commentary    
    Plight of the Public Dristi (4 January), a weekly newspaper in its report substantiating incidents of the excessive behaviour of the security forces alleged that "Security force personnel who are supposed to protect citizens are causi...
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