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  • Communalism and Politics in India
       ·   22 Apr, 2004    ·    #1380    ·    Commentary    
    Text of the lecture I would like to put before you some propositions to explain the phenomena called ‘communalism’ and its impact on security. First of all, I would like to state that security is also a ‘state of min...
  • Transnational Population Movements in South Asia
    T. Anantachari    ·   21 Apr, 2004    ·    #1379    ·    Commentary    
    Text of the Lecture Population movement is a ‘strategy of survival’ for varied reasons related to political, economic, and environmental issues. The two widely discussed groups in population movement are: i) Un...
  • Governance and National Security
       ·   21 Apr, 2004    ·    #1378    ·    Commentary    
    The impact of corruption and criminalization of politics on national security is two-fold. First, corruption worsens socio-economic conditions and facilitates growth of anti-national movements or activities. Corruption acts as a regressive tax o...
  • Nuclear Thefts in Iraq
    Ajay Lele    ·   21 Apr, 2004    ·    #1377    ·    Commentary    
    Post American invasion, Iraq has emerged as the most likely and the cheapest source of radioactive material in the world. As per the latest UN report, few Iraqi nuclear facilities are likely to be guarded, and radioactive materials are being tak...
  • Look East Policy of Bangladesh
    Anand Kumar    ·   20 Apr, 2004    ·    #1376    ·    Commentary    
    In South Asia, ‘Look East Policy’ is no longer followed exclusively by India. Now one of its eastern neighbour Bangladesh has also started looking e...
  • Election Melancholy Grips Valley People
    Amin Masoodi    ·   20 Apr, 2004    ·    #1375    ·    Commentary    
    The All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC), an organization claiming to be the real representatives of people of Jammu and Kashmir and the state government are bent upon upstaging each other vis-à-vis the forthcoming el...
  • Maoist Linkages with Northeast Insurgents: Growing Concerns
    Sanjay K Jha    ·   20 Apr, 2004    ·    #1374    ·    Commentary    
    While deepening linkages between the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoists), CPN-M, and Indian left-wing extremist groups have been a cause of concern for quite some time, recent developments have brought to the focus growing relationship of Maoists...
  • Future Threats: Challenges and Collective Actions
    Maj. Gen. Dipankar Banerjee    ·   19 Apr, 2004    ·    #1373    ·    Commentary    
    Nature of Future Threats and Challenges Thank you for this wonderful opportunity to address this meeting. What are the principal threats and challenges to peace and security in today’s world? An immediate response would be: all...
  • Sri Lanka: Election Outcome and Its Impact on the Peace Process
    N Manoharan    ·   17 Apr, 2004    ·    #1372    ·    Commentary    
                Panelists: P. Sahadevan N. Manoharan N. Manoharan â€&ac...
  • Bangladesh: Turning into another Afghanistan?
       ·   17 Apr, 2004    ·    #1371    ·    Commentary    
    Amra Sobai Hobo Taliban, Bangla Hobe Afghanistan (We would all be Taliban, and Bangladesh would be Afghanistan). This slogan of the Bangladesh’s main Islamist extremist group, Harkat-ul-Jehad-ul-Islami (HuJI) has to be taken seriously by I...
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