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  • India Between America and Russia: Need to Tilt Towards U.S.
    Satish Kumar    ·   16 Jan, 2001    ·    #449    ·    Commentary    
    Indian foreign policy makers are trying to establish a delicate balance between Russia and America . The two different poles of the Cold War are coming closer to India and desiring a strategic partnership with it. One is a t...
  • Russian Foreign and Security Policies at the Juncture of the Millennium
       ·   16 Jan, 2001    ·    #448    ·    Commentary    
    Speaker: Prof. Grigori Sergeevich Khozin     (Dept. of Foreign Policy and International Relations, Russian Diplomatic Academy, Moscow )     5 January 2001     The speake...
  • Leading Towards Sino-Indian Detente
       ·   30 Dec, 2000    ·    #447    ·    Commentary    
    The Chinese are reported to have sent their maps of the Sino-Indian border to the MEA. This is a sequel to the earlier agreements on the LAC and CBMs of 1993 and 1996. It is also learnt that while the Chinese accept the 1914 MacMahon line for the ...
  • Plebiscite to Engagement: The New U.S Outlook Towards Kashmir
    Parama Sinha Palit    ·   30 Dec, 2000    ·    #446    ·    Commentary    
    Since the partition of the Indian subcontinent, Kashmir has been a source of friction between India and Pakistan . The mutual conflict over the issue spread beyond the confines of South Asia becoming one of the several points of ...
  • The Indian Army - A Paper Tiger?
    Brig. SS Chandel    ·   30 Dec, 2000    ·    #445    ·    Commentary    
    We are reminded that we have the fourth largest standing Army in the world, and that too a volunteer force. These million odd men by virtue of being ‘volunteers’ are supposed to be highly motivated. Behind this force are phalanxes of e...
  • Aircraft Industry in India: An Apprisal
    Wg.Cdr. NK Pant (Retd.)    ·   30 Dec, 2000    ·    #444    ·    Commentary    
    The disinvestment wave currently manifesting the corridors of financial and economic governance in New Delhi seems to have totally bypassed the holy cows of the burgeoning defence public sector units such as the Hindustan Aeronautics Limit...
  • Drug trafficking and terrorist trail
    Wg.Cdr. NK Pant (Retd.)    ·   01 Dec, 2000    ·    #443    ·    Commentary    
    The Paris based Geopolitical Drug Watch has labeled Pakistan as a ‘narco state’, a nation in which drug barons collaborate closely with politicians, senior bureaucrats and armed forces officers. This illegal and clandestine business pu...
  • The Refugees Situation in South Asia and its Security Implications
       ·   01 Dec, 2000    ·    #442    ·    Commentary    
    Panelists     Dr. Mahendra P Lama (Associate Professor, JNU)      Ms. Sumbul Rizvi Khan ( Legal Protection Officer, UNHCR, New Delhi )         ...
  • Missile Technology Export Control Declaration by China: Reasons for Restraint
    Sonika Gupta    ·   01 Dec, 2000    ·    #441    ·    Commentary    
    China ’s pledge of imposing strict export control measures against missile proliferation has given hope to India that the China-Pakistan defence relationship may be weakening consequently, the strategic situation in South ...
  • China’s Track Record in Nuclear and Missile Proliferation
    Arpit Rajain    ·   01 Dec, 2000    ·    #440    ·    Commentary    
    Over the last decade and a half, China ’s missile and nuclear co-operation with Pakistan has caused great concern to the non-proliferation community. Viewed in this perspective the current assurance by China to reinfor...
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