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  • Pakistan's Trespass at LOC: Is 'Kargil Plan 2.0' Underway?
    J Jeganaathan    ·   28 Feb, 2013    ·    #3829    ·    Commentary    
    The recent tension on the Line of Control (LoC) between India and Pakistan signal the resumption of dormant tension in Indo-Pak relations and there is a growing concern that the relations are now back to square one. Although, public anger in Ind...
  • Hyderabad Terror Attacks: Road-blocks in the National Counter-Terrorism Centre (NCTC)
    N Manoharan    ·   27 Feb, 2013    ·    #3828    ·    Commentary    
    After the recent twin blasts in Hyderabad, there has been a new push towards setting up the National Counter-Terrorism Centre (NCTC). Earlier attempts to set up an overarching body to deal with counter-terrorism failed mainly because of oppositi...
  • Review: India-Sri Lanka Track-II Initiative
    Prof. V. Suryanarayan    ·   27 Feb, 2013    ·    #3827    ·    Commentary    
    Recently, the Manipal Global Education of India and the Pathfinder Foundation of Sri Lanka took the initiative to form a joint study group and organize an informal dialogue to explore the ways and means of strengthening bilateral relations betwe...
  • Early Warning and Peace Alert: Transforming Rajouri & Poonch in J&K
    D Suba Chandran    ·   27 Feb, 2013    ·    #3826    ·    Commentary    
    In the last two years, there has been a substantial transformation in the twin districts of Rajouri and Poonch along the LoC in J&K. Keeping in line with the decline of militancy across J&K, the districts have also witnessed a substantia...
  • Teesta Water Accord: Expectations for Indo-Bangladesh Water Diplomacy
    Roomana Hukil    ·   25 Feb, 2013    ·    #3825    ·    Commentary    
    Recent talks of optimism over the Teesta accord by Indian Foreign Secretary, Ranjan Mathai and Minister of External Affairs, Salman Khurshid have defused a striking political assertion of bringing a cut to the impending decade-long water deal be...
  • Nuclear Weapons: Can They Be Made Obsolete?
    Shubhra Chaturvedi    ·   25 Feb, 2013    ·    #3824    ·    Commentary    
    As an aftermath of unintended proliferation, strategic exchanges have taken place for better, substantial and productive steps towards nuclear disarmament. The process of reflection on the political, economic, moral and defensive connotations of...
  • China, Gwadar and Sea Lanes of Communication: ‘Economic Offence’ or ‘Active Defence’?
    Shanta Maree Surendran    ·   25 Feb, 2013    ·    #3823    ·    Commentary    
    In February 2013, the Pakistan government handed over control of Gwadar port to China. The desolate surrounds and negligible shipping activity at Gwadar belie the port’s central role in renewed debate about intentions and implications of C...
  • Nuclear Weapons: Debating the Normative Imperatives to Disarm
    Satyabrat Sinha    ·   21 Feb, 2013    ·    #3822    ·    Commentary    
    In evaluating the argument that for global nuclear disarmament to be possible, norms that delegitimise and devalue nuclear weapons are needed, we first need to understand norms and their difference from injunctions (legal or moral), and the emer...
  • Special Commentary: Gwadar and China’s Search for a Maritime Lebensraum
    Vijay Shankar    ·   19 Feb, 2013    ·    #3821    ·    Commentary    
    The end of the Cold War brought in its wake prognostication of the emergence of one world in which harmony, democracy, an end to conflict and of man’s ideological evolution with the grand formulation that western liberal democracy had prev...
  • Review: India, Pakistan and Incremental CBMs
    Debak Das    ·   18 Feb, 2013    ·    #3820    ·    Commentary    
    Beyond Incrementalism: Rethinking Approaches to CBMs and Stability in South Asia Toby Dalton Stimson Center, 30 January 2013 In light of the fresh round of overt and public exchanges of animosity between India and Pakistan in January 2013, ...
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