COMMENTARIES
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Obama’s Vision of a Global Nonproliferation Regime: Two Scenarios
Lydia Walker · 15 Dec, 2010 · #3298 · Commentary
Since he became US President, Barack Obama has placed nuclear nonproliferation and nuclear disarmament on the international agenda. What have been his means? First, he used a public platform to spotlight his personal commitment to nonproli...
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Maoists Eye the Cities
Uddipan Mukherjee · 14 Dec, 2010 · #3297 · Commentary
In the first week of December 2010, the Special Task Force (STF) of Kolkata Police arrested Kanchan alias Sudip Chongdar, the West Bengal state secretary of the banned outfit CPI-Maoist. Along with him, four other top leaders of the group were a...
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What can we expect from the India-China Summit?
Swaran Singh · 14 Dec, 2010 · #3296 · Commentary
As Wen Jiabao and Manmohan Singh begin preparing for their third bilateral summit in New Delhi this week the ghost of their legacies will be haunting their minds. This may well become their last bilateral summit before both leaders move away fro...
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WikiWrecks: An Analysis of Terrorism Financing
Siddharth Ramana · 13 Dec, 2010 · #3295 · Commentary
Revelations by WikiLeaks that the US is critical of Gulf states in their approach against terrorist financing of South Asian groups, including the Taliban and LeT, shed light on an observation which has been documented by counterterrorism offici...
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WikiWrecks: Did the US Double-Cross India?
Radhavinod Raju · 13 Dec, 2010 · #3294 · Commentary
Indian media reactions to the WikiLeaks’ disclosures pertaining to the 26/11 attacks were, to say the least, unfair. One headline read, ‘US backstabbed India after 26/11?’ It is now known that the US agencies had shared intelli...
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Sarkozy’s India Visit: The Nuclear Dimension
Siddharth Ramana · 10 Dec, 2010 · #3293 · Commentary
French President Nicholas Sarkozy’s official visit to India has generated a lot of buzz around the nuclear deals that have been signed. However, the visit is significant also for bolstering international efforts to bring India into the nuc...
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Blast from the Past - The Varanasi Explosion
Firdaus Ahmed · 10 Dec, 2010 · #3292 · Commentary
Varanasi was recently rocked by a terrorist explosion which targeted worshippers at the evening prayers ceremony at the Ghats. Two additional IEDs were recovered later. The Indian Mujahideen (IM), in an email reportedly sent from Mumbai, took re...
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WikiWrecks: 26/11 and US Intent
M Shamsur Rabb Khan · 08 Dec, 2010 · #3291 · Commentary
The David Headley saga put a big question mark over the US policy for tackling terror due to the inability of the FBI to inform their Indian counterparts about 26/11. New Delhi learnt the big lesson that it had to deal with Pakistan-sponso...
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Is China’s Strategic Aggression Ill-Timed?
Air Cmde Arjun Subramaniam · 07 Dec, 2010 · #3290 · Commentary
Within the framework of China’s meteoric rise, analysts across the world have chronicled its recent strategic belligerence without taking a call on whether this aggressiveness is part of a well-thought out ‘coming of age’ strat...
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Dialogue between Nuclear Weapon States
· 06 Dec, 2010 · #3289 · Commentary
In the joint statement issued on the 8th November 2010 at the conclusion of President Obama’s three-day visit to India, the leaders of the two countries expressed “the need for a meaningful dialogue among all states possessing nuclea...
