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  • Stabilising a Stalemate: Where Sri Lankan Peace Process is Heading?
    N Manoharan    ·   30 Nov, 2004    ·    #1573    ·    Commentary    
    Every actor in the Island “wants peace” and all stakeholders of peace have asserted their “commitment” towards the peace process, now aged four years. Despite this, there has been a stalemated “no war, no peace&rdqu...
  • Informal Peace In Andhra
    P V Ramana    ·   30 Nov, 2004    ·    #1572    ·    Commentary    
    The Government of Andhra Pradesh (AP) has commenced peace negotiations with two Naxalite groups––the Janasakthi and Communist Party of India-...
  • Limited War and Escalation Control - II*
       ·   30 Nov, 2004    ·    #1571    ·    Commentary    
    A limited war was, and still is, a strategic possibility so long as proxy war continues on the sub- continent. As Ashley Tellis put it in the last India Today Conclave, “I believe that limited war sh...
  • Limited War and Escalation Control - I*
    Gen. VP Malik    ·   30 Nov, 2004    ·    #1570    ·    Commentary    
    Clausewitz may be out of fashion and less relevant today but no one can question his evergreen noting, “Each age has had its own peculiar forms of war.... Each, therefore, would also keep its own theory of war.” As someone who ...
  • The Parechu Lake Incident: A Preliminary Analysis
       ·   30 Nov, 2004    ·    #1569    ·    Commentary    
    Introduction In early November 2004, the Ministry of External Affairs informed the Himachal Pradesh government to scale down the three month long high alert across the Sutlej valley. Briefly to recall, in the beginning of August 2004, 35 ki...
  • A Glimmer of Hope (Kashmir Urdu Media Survey, October 2004)
    Amin Masoodi    ·   30 Nov, 2004    ·    #1568    ·    Commentary    
    In its editorial, 'Bungling of government funds', Alsafa (22 October 2004) commented on the large-scale bungling being unearthed in various departments. "State police's crime branch has unearthed a scandal of 33 lakh in sales ta...
  • Strategic and Strengthened partnership: Recent Initiatives in EU- India Relations
    R Ramasubramanian    ·   30 Nov, 2004    ·    #1567    ·    Commentary    
    There are many predictions as to how many and which are to be the poles of this future world structure, but none seems to challenge that the EU will be an important one among them. As Dr. Jean-Luc Racine puts, "this expectation is not based...
  • Escalation Control In a Nuclear Environment
       ·   22 Nov, 2004    ·    #1566    ·    Commentary    
    Speakers:Michael Krepon Ved Prakash Malik P R ChariB M KapurRajesh RajagopalanGurmeet Kanwal Chair:Dipankar Banerjee Introductory Remarks: Dipankar Banerjee When nations with deep grievances acquire nuclear weapons, tensions between t...
  • War on Terror and Revival of Drug Trade in Afghanistan
    Sanjay Kumar    ·   30 Nov, 2004    ·    #1565    ·    Commentary    
    The War on Terror launched by the US in Afghanistan after the attack on the twin towers managed to change the regime in that country. It also improved the security situation in South Asia and the neighbouring regions but has failed to establish ...
  • The Road From Falluja
    Mohan K Tikku    ·   21 Nov, 2004    ·    #1564    ·    Commentary    
    The Iraq war may go down in the annals of journalism as having given birth to the generic curiosity called an “embedded journalistâ€Â...
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