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Nuclear, Chemical & Biological

Non-Traditional Security Issues

Nuclear India's Weapons of Peace: Ten Years after Pokhran-II
Gurmeet Kanwalstates that it remains in India's continued interest to work towards total nuclear disarmament

SCO Stands for Co-domination
Farhod Mirzabaev observes that the SCO is increasingly being dominated by China, with Russia beginning to look for alternatives

A New Gorkhaland State: How Justified is the Demand?
Saumitra Mohan calls for a second States Reorganization Commission to deal with the raft of demands for separate states

Bypassing the Malacca Straits
Julien Levesque examines the several alternatives to the increasingly congested Straits

Needed a Strategic Partnership with Saudi Arabia
M Shamsur Rabb Khan outlines the reasons for a closer relationship between India and the Arab monarchy

Contours of India's Cultural Diplomacy in Southeast Asia
Pranav Kumar highlights the various facets of India's soft power approach in the region

Northeast in India's Look East Policy
Report of the IPCS Seminar held on 27 March 2008

Post-Election Challenges in Nepal
P G Rajamohan asserts the significance of cooperation among the political parties of Nepal in framing the new constitution

Will Assam go the Kashmir Way?
Rupakiyoti Borah examines the threat posed by illegal Bangladeshi migrants in Assam

China, India and the Red Star over Nepal
Bhartendu Kumar Singh analyzes the likely changes in the trilateral relationship following the rise of the Maoists in the Himalayan state

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Mr. Pradyut Bordoloi
The Commerce Minister of Assam,

Discussion on Looking East From The Northeast

Mr. Tarun Gogoi
The Chief Minister of Assam, Interview on Assam in India's Look East Policy

Mr Jairam Ramesh
Minister of State for Commerce, Government of IndiaKeynote Address, Conference on Connectivity

RECENT EVENTS

Northeast in India's Look East Policy

Report of the IPCS Seminar held on 27 March 2008

Current Situation in Nepal and Options for India

Report of the IPCS Seminar held on 7 April 2008

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WEBCAST

Looking East From The Northeast

Webcast of Presentation held at the IPCS Conference Room on 28th March 2008

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INTERVIEW

Assam in India's Look East Policy

Interview with the Chief Minister of Assam, Mr. Tarun Gogoi, on 22 February 2008 in Guwahati, Assam

Political Turmoil in Myanmar

Interview with Burmese dissidents, New Delhi, 23 October 2007

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The IPCS StrategicReview (ISR) is a monthly journal that encapsulates an analysis of developments in South Asia and focus issues of immediate strategic concern through a review of the prevalent political, security and economic environment.

ISR 29, Dec 2007.

Previous issues of ISR

Comprehensive news analysis and reference relating to weapons of mass destruction in Asia. Updated daily. (This project is supported by the Nuclear Threat Initiative).

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Which are the organizations that carry out suicide attacks? What is the profile of a suicide bomber? What is the modus operandi? Is suicide terrorism limited to a particular region and particular people? The IPCS Program on Suicide Terrorism addresses some of these questions.

IPOST - Vol 4 No.2 (Apr-Jun 2007)

Book Reviews

Sitakanta Mishra reviews
Abdul Sattar "Pakistan's Foreign Policy 1947-2005: A Concise History"

Swapna Kona reviews
Ayesha Siddiqa "Military Inc.: Inside Pakistan's Military Economy"

Deepti Mahajan reviews
Krishna Kumar "Battle for Peace"

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16^th May 2008
Panel Discussion on
INDO-PAK NUCLEAR TESTS: TEN YEARS AFTER

Speakers:Amb Arundhati Ghose
Mr NS Sisodia
Adm Raja Menon
Dr Rajesh Rajagopalan
Mr PR Chari

Chair: Maj. General Dipankar Banerjee

1030-1330 hrs
(IPCS Conference Room)

26^th May 2008
Book Discussion on
ARMED CONFLICTS IN SOUTH ASIA - 2008: GROWING VIOLENCE

Speakers:Prof P. Sahadevan
(Jawaharlal Nehru University)
Lt Gen VG Patankar
(Former GOC, 15 Coprs)
Mr AK Doval
(Former Director, Intelligence Bureau)
Mr EN Rammohan
(Former DG, BSF)

Chair:Mr Dhirendra Singh (Former Home Secretary)

1730-2000 hrs
(Conf Room - III, IIC Annex)

SPECIAL REPORTS , ISSUE BRIEFS & RESEARCH PAPERS

April 2008

Cross-LoC Trade: Challenges and Opportunities in J&K
D. Suba Chandran
Issue Brief 66

Tension in the Rolling Hills: Burmese population and Border Trade in Mizoram
Julien Levesque & Mirza Zulfiqur Rahman
Research Paper 14

Thailand's Investment in India's Northeast: Strategies, Potentials and Risks
Vibhanshu Shekhar
Research Paper 13

Radiological Terrorism: Threats to India
Reshmi Kazi
CBRN Issue Brief 4

China's Rising Defence Expenditure Implications for India
Gurmeet Kanwal
Issue Brief 65

Shaping a 'New Forward Policy' Tibet and India's Options
Jabin T Jacob
Issue Brief 64

Situation in Sri Lanka: Options for India
N Manoharan
Issue Brief 63

List of IPCS Publications (Jan-Mar 2008)

March 2008

Malaysia: March Elections
Baladas Ghoshal
Issue Brief 62

Return of the Democrats: Pakistan After Elections
D Suba Chandran & Rekha Chakravarthi
Issue Brief 61

Lords of Jade: Mismanaging Myanmar's Natural Resources
Julien Levesque
Issue Brief 60

Between Safeguards and Crossroads: India and the IAEA
Arun Vishwanathan
CBRN Issue Brief 3

India & Russia: Revisiting Defence Relations
Air Cmde (Retd) Prashant Dikshit
Special Report 52

India and the FMCT: Issues and Concerns
Sameer Suryakant Patil
CBRN Issue Brief 2

Afghan-Pak Joint Peace Jirga
Mariam Safi
Special Report 51

February 2008

CBRN South Asia
Vol.1, No.2, February 2008

In ChinaTown: The Indo-US Nuclear Deal
Jabin T Jacob
CBRN Issue Brief 1

Linking SouthEast Asia & India
Anushree Bhattacharya
Special Report 50

Pakistan Elections 2008
D Suba Chandran & Rekha Chakravarthi
Issue Brief 59

SAARC: Towards Connectivity
Sameer Suryakant Patil, Aparajita Mazumdar & Kamala Kant Dash
Conference Report

January 2008

CBRN South Asia
Vol.1, No.1

Governance for Biological Threat Reduction
Mallika Joseph, D Suba Chandran and Neha Kumar
Conference Report

Connecting India: A Road Map for New Roads
D Suba Chandran, N Manoharan, Vibhanshu Shekhar, PG RajaMohan & Jabin T Jacob
Issue Brief No 58

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P.R. Chari,Pervaiz Iqbal Cheema and Stephen P. Cohen

Four Crises and a Peace Process

Washington DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2007)

P.Stobdan & D. Suba Chandran (Editors)

The Last Colony: Muzaffarabad-Gilgit-Baltistan

(New Delhi: India Research Press, 2008)

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