COMMENTARIES
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Fencing India's Eastern Border: Logic and Hurdles
Bidhan S Laishram · 27 Oct, 2003 · #1193 · Commentary
The global age of time-space compression has been celebrated for bringing about a retreat of the international nation-state system. The fluidity of boundaries in conditions of globality is challenging the congruence of peoples and territories, e...
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India’s New Peace Initiative
PR Chari · 24 Oct, 2003 · #1192 · Commentary
Be this said of the BJP-led NDA government that its foreign policy initiatives vis-à-vis Pakistan are characterised by strategic surprise. India’s nuclear tests in May 1998 shocked the world. Thereafter India made...
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Nuclear Proliferation: Disarmament, the Only Way Out
Lt. Gen. AM Vohra · 23 Oct, 2003 · #1191 · Commentary
While the US is taking steps to prevent North Korea and Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, it has proposed a Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) to search planes, ships, tr...
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Missiles and Crisis Stability
Firdaus Ahmed · 23 Oct, 2003 · #1190 · Commentary
India and Pakistan do not fight wars; they indulge in periodic crisis, testifying, in the eyes of their security establishments, to the robustness of their respective conventional and nuclear deterrents. The time between crises is spent in crisi...
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China’s Manned Space Flight: A Multi-dimensional Mission
Ajay Lele · 23 Oct, 2003 · #1189 · Commentary
China’s successful manned space mission lasting 21hours has made them the third country in the world to put a human being into orbit after the Soviets and the Americans. This success is a result of eleven years of meticulous planning. Acco...
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New Sanctuary for Terror
Anand Kumar · 23 Oct, 2003 · #1188 · Commentary
Bangladesh does not
belong to the category of Afghanistan and Pakistan as far as Islamic extremism
and terrorism is concerned. But of late it has gained a dubious distinction as a
safe haven for terrorists on the run.
When...
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Manipur: Need To Bridge the Valley and the Hills
Bibhu Prasad Routray · 23 Oct, 2003 · #1187 · Commentary
The Union government’s initiatives towards solving the Naga conflict have impacted adversely on Manipur and particularly on its civilian population who are growing increasingly concerned with t...
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Agitation in Manipur (Regional Media Survey, 1-15 October 2003)
Bibhu Prasad Routray · 22 Oct, 2003 · #1186 · Commentary
Agitation in Manipur
The release of 13 NSCN-IM cadres arrested on October 6 in Senapati district was interpreted by various Manipuri organisations as a compromise of the territorial integrity of the State. The Imphal Free Press (October 10)...
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Iran’s Nuclear Crisis: Cooperation or Confrontation?
Niraj Kumar · 22 Oct, 2003 · #1185 · Commentary
The September 12 decision of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to serve an ultimatum to Iran regarding its ‘alleged’ nuclear weapons development programme has precipitated another crisis in West Asia. This crisis assumes sign...
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Child Soldiers – III: ‘Baby Brigades’ of the LTTE
N Manoharan · 21 Oct, 2003 · #1184 · Commentary
The LTTE has a long record of recruiting children for combat. Irrespective of gender, children as young as nine years are conscripted mostly by coercion; the average child recruitment age stands at 14 to 17 years. Though the exact number of chil...
