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  • Between Monarchy and the Maoists (Nepal Media Survey, December, 2004)
    P G Rajamohan    ·   03 Feb, 2005    ·    #1630    ·    Commentary    
    Nepal at crossroads Himal (1-15 December) said that Nepal has been at the crossroads because the ideas of the King, political parties and the Maoists for a way out of the present crisis have only complicated matters. Expressing difficulties...
  • Post-tsunami Sri Lanka: Divisions Remain
    Mohan K Tikku    ·   02 Feb, 2005    ·    #1629    ·    Commentary    
    When the tsunami waves struck Sri Lanka on the morning after Christmas, it was felt that the sheer magnitude of the tragedy might help bring the two estranged parties in the ethnic imbroglio closer together. Such expectations were further enhanc...
  • Robots Enter Iraq War
    Ajay Lele    ·   01 Feb, 2005    ·    #1628    ·    Commentary    
    The ever increasing number of war casualties in Iraq is fast becoming increasingly unacceptable to many in the United States. However, Bush does not have much choice because no new nations are coming forward to deploy their troops in Iraq and ex...
  • India's Tsunami diplomacy
    R Ramasubramanian    ·   01 Feb, 2005    ·    #1627    ·    Commentary    
    "Nature cried in the wrath of waves. Flowers, withered, fell to the fathomless sea. The injured seagull wailing to the sky... Sleep well, my friends! We cherish for you a memory. We build for your progeny a life," wrote a Chinese leade...
  • Norway in Sri Lanka: A 'Soft Superpower' Syndrome?
    N Manoharan    ·   01 Feb, 2005    ·    #1626    ·    Commentary    
    Norway's Carvings Norway has now emerged as a 'peace superpower' involved in brokering peace in some 15 conflicts across the world stretching from Columbia to the Philippines. Despite being a small Scandinavian state, what makes...
  • Assam Accord: Politicking Continues
    Bibhu Prasad Routray    ·   29 Jan, 2005    ·    #1625    ·    Commentary    
    On 15 August 1985, a Memorandum of Settlement (MoS) was entered into between the All Assam Students' Union (AASU), the State of Assam and the Union of India. The MoS, better known as the 'Assam Accord' put an end to the six-yea...
  • Tsunamis and the War on Terror
    Mathew Angus    ·   29 Jan, 2005    ·    #1624    ·    Commentary    
    Is it possible to make a link between Tsunamis and the war on terror? Ostensibly there is no link at all - one is a natural disaster, the other entirely man-made. However, at a political level it is arguable that the Tsunami may well have an imp...
  • Limited War Under the Nuclear Shadow in South Asia
       ·   29 Jan, 2005    ·    #1623    ·    Commentary    
    Arzan Tarapore, Intern, IPCS Speakers: Prof Stephen Cohen and Prof PR ChariChair: Amb Eric Gonsalves Prof PR Chari Introduction: Prof Chari began by expressing his thanks to USIP and noting there is no final decision yet on whether thi...
  • Maoist Insurgency in Nepal
    Meha Dixit    ·   27 Jan, 2005    ·    #1622    ·    Commentary    
    Maoist insurgency in Nepal is a fairly new phenomenon that rose like a livid blaze from age long privations buried deep in the oppressive, undemocratic annals of the 'kingdom'. Ironically, far from alleviating the abysmal state of the pe...
  • Suicide Terrorism in Indonesia
    Eric Koo Peng Kuan    ·   27 Jan, 2005    ·    #1621    ·    Commentary    
    Suicide terrorism has become a phenomenon following the rise of Islamic radicalism in South East Asia which emerged in 1998 during the fall of President Suharto's regime. These groups ascribe to a more severe and harsh form of Islamic practi...
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