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  • Iran and Nuclear Weapons: New Negotiations, Old Issues?
    Shubhra Chaturvedi    ·   16 Feb, 2013    ·    #3817    ·    Commentary    
    The announcement about the talks (at Kazakhstan in February 2013) between Iran and the six powers (US, UK, France, Germany, China and Russia), after an eight months break, is being seen as an optimistic breakthrough. What has changed since the l...
  • IPCS Discussion: The Evolving Situation in the East and South China Seas
    Rana Divyank Chaudhary    ·   14 Feb, 2013    ·    #3816    ·    Commentary    
    Prof Kanti Bajpai There are certain core issues which have always cast a shadow over the relations between India and China. The first core issue is the Sino-Indian border. The second is the India-Pakistan-China triangle which continues to ...
  • Book Review: Addressing the Psychosocial Paradigms of Terrorism
    Ashok Bhan    ·   14 Feb, 2013    ·    #3815    ·    Commentary    
    Countering Terrorism: Psychosocial Strategies Updesh Kumar and Manas K. Mandal (Eds.) New Delhi: SAGE Publications, 2012 Pp: 472 Amidst the plethora of literature written across the globe on terrorism and counterterrorism, what difference ...
  • India’s Northeast: Islamist Militancy in Assam?
    Bibhu Prasad Routray    ·   13 Feb, 2013    ·    #3814    ·    Commentary    
    On 6 April 2000, Prafulla Kumar Mahanta, then Chief Minister of Assam presented a statement detailing the activities of the Pakistani Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) in the state legislative assembly. Its document titled, ISI Activities in Ass...
  • J&K after Afzal Guru: Immediate Excuse and Inherent Problems
    D Suba Chandran    ·   13 Feb, 2013    ·    #3813    ·    Commentary    
    Over the last few days, following the hanging of Afzal Guru, the Kashmir valley has been witnessing curfews and protests. While the Kashmir valley, especially Srinagar, is not new to protest politics and curfew governance, what is striking is it...
  • North Korea: Third Nuclear Test
    Rajaram Panda    ·   13 Feb, 2013    ·    #3812    ·    Commentary    
    In the most audacious defiance of UN warnings, North Korea conducted its third nuclear test on 12 February 2013. What does this imply for both regional and global security? With Pyongyang having taken a crucial step towards its goal of building ...
  • Gwadar: Can India Checkmate China?
    Vijay Sakhuja    ·   12 Feb, 2013    ·    #3811    ·    Commentary    
    Pakistan’s decision to hand over commercial operations at the Gwadar port to the Chinese Overseas Port Holdings, a state-owned company, does not come as a surprise. Interestingly, for some, it was a deliberate and a ‘smart ploy&rsquo...
  • Nuclear Weapons: Can They Be Made Strategically Obsolete?
    Debak Das    ·   12 Feb, 2013    ·    #3810    ·    Commentary    
    With U.S. President Barack Obama’s second term in office and the possible appointment of Chuck Hagel as his Secretary of Defence, there is a widespread belief in the possibility of the movement for nuclear disarmament receiving a fillip. T...
  • South China Sea: Revival of the Cold War and Balance of Power?
    Anu Krishnan    ·   08 Feb, 2013    ·    #3809    ·    Commentary    
    Japan’s newly elected Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has digressed from his hardliner approach by extending the olive branch to China over the South China Sea (SCS) dispute. China, however, has chosen to maintain its vigorous stance over the di...
  • Naxal Violence: The Latehar Carnage and the Forgotten Lessons
    Deepak Kumar Nayak    ·   08 Feb, 2013    ·    #3808    ·    Commentary    
    Ten jawans (nine from the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and one from the state’s commando force ‘Jharkhand Jaguars’) were killed in an ambush carried out by the Communist Party of India – Maoist (CPI-Maoist), presum...
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