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  • Human Smuggling in Sri Lanka
    R Ramasubramanian    ·   05 May, 2004    ·    #1383    ·    Commentary    
    Human smuggling and trafficking are matters of increasing concern to the South Asian states. Despite successful raids to curb the flow of illicit immigrants to western countries, a large number of persons from SAARC countries continue to arrive ...
  • Kashmir: Looking Further
       ·   05 May, 2004    ·    #1382    ·    Commentary    
    Introductory Session Maj. Gen. Dipankar Banerjee The aim of the conference, as the name suggests, is to look at ways and means of moving ahead and finding a lasting solution to the Kashmir imbroglio. For doing this, one ne...
  • 2004 Parliamentary Elections: Political Parties and Manifestos
    B Rajeshwari    ·   27 Apr, 2004    ·    #1381    ·    Commentary    
    The election manifestos of the political parties for the 2004 Parliamentary elections were announced in the beginning of April 2004. A study of these manifestos reveals their approach towards crucial issues. This brief analysis includes a compar...
  • 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...
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