COMMENTARIES
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India-S Korea Nuclear Cooperation: Strategic Convergence?
Y J Ji · 08 Jul, 2010 · #3187 · Commentary
Civil nuclear commerce is one of the main items in India’s trade basket out of the US$30 billion bilateral trade target with South Korea by 2014. This has been amply expressed in the 6th India-Korea Joint Committee Meeting held on 17-19 Ju...
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Myanmar-Thailand Border Dispute: Prospects for Demarcation
Tanvi Pate · 08 Jul, 2010 · #3186 · Commentary
In recent years, Myanmar-Thailand relations have experienced a surge of positive bilateralism due to their common membership in Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). However, the thaw in relations still leaves the boundary dispute betw...
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Battling on the Frontlines: Bangladesh and Climate Change
Sonali Huria · 08 Jul, 2010 · #3185 · Commentary
Bangladesh, Cambodia and the Maldives recently signed an agreement with the European Union (EU), which is aimed at assisting developing countries, particularly Small Island Developing States (SIDS) in Asia to battle the onslaught of climate chan...
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A Year since Xinjiang Riots: Regional Consequences
Avinash Godbole · 07 Jul, 2010 · #3184 · Commentary
5 July 2010 marked the first anniversary of the ethnic riots in Urumqi, capital of China’s Xinjiang province that is home to the minority Muslim ethnicity Uighurs. These riots had highlighted the disharmony in the People’s Republic, ...
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Opening up a New Front in the War against Naxalites
Radhakrishna Rao · 06 Jul, 2010 · #3183 · Commentary
For quite sometime now, there has been an animated debate on the feasibility of using armed forces to put an end to the menace of Naxalites groups which have been on a killing spree especially in the mineral rich, poorly developed and densely fo...
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Attacks in Lahore: Buildup to secession?
Siddharth Ramana · 06 Jul, 2010 · #3182 · Commentary
After the 2 July 2010 attack on a popular Sufi Mosque in Lahore, Pakistan has once again raised the spotlight of political security in Pakistan. While recent attacks in Pakistan have been blamed on Waziristan-based Pashtun groups such as the Teh...
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Non-Proliferation: What Can India Do?
PR Chari · 05 Jul, 2010 · #3181 · Commentary
India is rightly considered a leader in the spheres of nuclear disarmament, non-proliferation, and similar efforts to establish a safer world. Official spokespersons have untiringly informed the world about India’s contributions here, e.g....
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Violence in Kashmir: Strengthen Communication between Rulers and the Ruled
Radha vinod Raju · 05 Jul, 2010 · #3180 · Commentary
Officers of the J&K cadre, especially those who joined the cadre before the eighties, would tell you that the most serious law and order problem in Srinagar was when unruly mobs would indulge in intense stone pelting. If it were wintertime, ...
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Violence in Kashmir: Elected Government is the Best Option
Dr. Ashok Bhan · 05 Jul, 2010 · #3179 · Commentary
Recent incidents in Kashmir valley have evoked some voices, mercifully very feeble ones, to impose Governor’s rule in the state. Nothing can be more damaging to the state than even nursing such a thought. The authors of such an idea fail t...
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Violence in Kashmir: Is the Conflict Transforming from Militancy to Civilian Unrest?
D Suba Chandran · 05 Jul, 2010 · #3178 · Commentary
Conflict is never unilinear. It transforms – for the better or worse, depending on the major actors, their current strategies and the government’s counter strategies, besides the ability of the security forces to bring the situation ...
