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  • Myanmar Elections 2010 – IV: China and the Charade
    Bhavna Singh    ·   03 Nov, 2010    ·    #3276    ·    Commentary    
    The 7 November Myanmar elections bring to the fore a long-standing dilemma for the international community of choosing between supporting real and immediate democratic change or accepting incremental moves towards a democratic government far in th...
  • Myanmar Elections 2010 – III: ASEAN’s Ambivalence
    Panchali Saikia    ·   03 Nov, 2010    ·    #3275    ·    Commentary    
    In the ASEAN discourse, an amalgamated security community is least likely to occur when most of its member states are facing internal political difficulties. The non-interference in one another’s internal affairs policy of ASEAN has underm...
  • Myanmar Elections 2010 – II: Profile of Major Political Parties
    Medha Chaturvedi    ·   03 Nov, 2010    ·    #3274    ·    Commentary    
    Following on from the 2003 announcement of the “Seven-step Roadmap to Democracy,” Myanmar will hold its first elections in two decades on 7 November 2010. Elections will be held to the Pyidaungsu Hluttaw (Union Assembly) made up of the...
  • Nepal: State in Disarray
    P G Rajamohan    ·   03 Nov, 2010    ·    #3273    ·    Commentary    
    Although political parties in Nepal have a history of reaching an agreement at the end moment, the incessant elections pose numerous questions over the future of the peace process, constitution drafting and a stable political environment. Nep...
  • Construction of Mega Dams on the Brahmaputra
    Mirza Zulfiqur Rahman    ·   03 Nov, 2010    ·    #3272    ·    Commentary    
    The series of mega dams being built by India on the various tributaries of the Brahmaputra in the state of Arunachal Pradesh has generated immense political debate and activism in Northeast India, and led to inter-state tensions between Arunacha...
  • An Attack on Sufism
    Radhavinod Raju    ·   03 Nov, 2010    ·    #3271    ·    Commentary    
    On 30 May, 1995, the notorious Pakistani terrorist, Mast Gul, set fire to the revered Sufi shrine of Sheikh Noorudin Rishi, popularly called Baba Rishi, in Charar-e- Sharif, 35 kms from Srinagar. For hundreds of years, thousands of Hindus and Mu...
  • Civil Nuclear Liability: Fact and Fiction
    PR Chari    ·   01 Nov, 2010    ·    #3270    ·    Commentary    
    With the countdown accelerating for the Obama visit to India next week the outstanding Indo-US bilateral issues have come into focus, which prominently includes India’s Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Bill [now an Act]. It has caused imme...
  • India-Japan Relations: Strategic Alliance not Sideshow Required
    Tomoko Kiyota    ·   29 Oct, 2010    ·    #3269    ·    Commentary    
    The relationship between India and Japan ought to be closer, one would think, given the geopolitical reality which the two countries are facing. But, curiously enough, this relationship is still like a sideshow for both countries. Against China&rs...
  • ADMM+: Another Case of ‘Pretentious Diplomacy’?
    Vibhanshu Shekhar    ·   29 Oct, 2010    ·    #3268    ·    Commentary    
    The representatives of ten ASEAN countries and eight major players in the Asia-Pacific – Australia, China, India, Japan, New Zealand, Russia, South Korea and the US – got together in Hanoi on 12 October 2010 in a bid to develop a regio...
  • Manmohan Singh in Southeast Asia
    Panchali Saikia    ·   27 Oct, 2010    ·    #3267    ·    Commentary    
    Enhancing integration towards its east in terms of economic and strategic connectivity, and continuing affiliation with ASEAN, is at the heart of India’s ‘Look East Policy.’ The policy enunciated in 1992 mostly focusing on econom...
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