COMMENTARIES
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The Maoist Threat: the Role of Risk Management Firms
Prakash Pillai · 01 Jul, 2010 · #3175 · Commentary
The current debate of ‘people or profits’, with regards to the Maoist uprising, prevents big conglomerates from investing in the mineral rich states of India. The Maoists are now in 200 districts across 12 Indian states, stretching f...
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China’s Dam on the Brahmaputra: Cause for Concern?
Pia Malhotra · 30 Jun, 2010 · #3174 · Commentary
Even as India and Pakistan tussle over shared River waters and even as water threatens to become the next ‘core’ issue between the two countries, another region in the vicinity is emerging as an area of contention; India-China. When it...
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India Checkmates Chinese Moves
Ranjit B Rai · 29 Jun, 2010 · #3173 · Commentary
Small contentious issues in history are harbingers that tend to shape the larger power plays between nations. The naked truth in international affairs as articulated by strategist Paul Kennedy, is that India and China are two rising military and...
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DRDO Restructuring: Boosting Self-Reliance?
Radhakrishna Rao · 28 Jun, 2010 · #3172 · Commentary
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, known for delivering his message in a subtle manner was frank enough to ask the state owned Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO) to speed up research and development of new military technology as &l...
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Should India give up its NFU Doctrine?
Rabia Akhtar · 29 Jun, 2010 · #3171 · Commentary
A very interesting discourse has been generated on Indian No First Use (NFU) by Suba Chandran (Click here for the Article) and Ahmed Ali (Click here for the Article) on IPCS website questioning whether to do away with NFU or retain it, respectiv...
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Should India give up its NFU Doctrine?
Ali Ahmed · 25 Jun, 2010 · #3170 · Commentary
Suba Chandran has on this website made out a case for jettisoning the No First Use. In order for readers to make up their own minds, this article lays out a case for retaining the pillar of the doctrine as hither-to-fore.
No First Use, simpl...
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Should India give up its NFU Doctrine?
D Suba Chandran · 24 Jun, 2010 · #3169 · Commentary
Doctrines are not static and are always linked to an objective. If the primary Indian objective is to have a stable nuclear South Asia, then New Delhi should consider giving up its No-First-Use doctrine (NFU), for the following three reasons.
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Sino-Pak N-deal: a Setback to India-China Ties?
M Shamsur Rabb Khan · 24 Jun, 2010 · #3168 · Commentary
The report on the formalization of the China-Pakistan nuclear deal between China Nuclear Power Corporation and the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission, similar to the landmark nuclear agreement with Indo-US civil nuclear deal signed in 2008, has c...
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From 2000 to 2010 NPT RevCon: Are the 13 Practical Steps still Relevant?
Yogesh Joshi · 24 Jun, 2010 · #3167 · Commentary
The 1995 NPT Review Conference extended the treaty indefinitely. In the same Review Conference, Nuclear Weapon States repeated their resolve for total elimination of nuclear weapons by agreeing on a Program of Action (POF) which included some co...
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Sino-Indian Boundary Dispute: Present Imperfect and Future Tense?
Jabin T Jacob · 24 Jun, 2010 · #3166 · Commentary
INTRODUCTION On 2 and 3 June 2010, the University of Westminster held a conference titled, ‘Revisiting the China-India Border Dispute’ bringing together scholars from China, India, Australia and the United States to examine the is...
