COMMENTARIES
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Recent Developments in Jamat-e-Islami, Pakistan
Arshi Saleem Hashmi · 08 Jun, 2010 · #3147 · Commentary
From a student of Sociology to Islamic Studies, a comrade of National Student Federation (NSF) a progressive left wing group to Jamiat-e-Tulaba activist (JeI student group), Syed Munnawar Hasan is the new Amir of Jamat-e-Islami (JeI). Considered...
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Obama’s National Security Strategy: an Assessment
Yogesh Joshi · 08 Jun, 2010 · #3146 · Commentary
The Goldwater-Nichols Defense Department Reorganization Act of 1986, under section 603, mandates the US government to come out with a ‘National Security Strategy (NSS)’. NSS seeks to purport the US perspective on its immediate and lo...
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Agriculture: Adding New Dynamics to the Indo-US Relationship
Yogesh Joshi · 08 Jun, 2010 · #3145 · Commentary
‘Sustainable agriculture’ has been quoted in the National Security Strategy of the President Obama as one of the important areas of cooperation between India and USA. To this effect, in the recently concluded Indo-US Strategic ...
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INDU: A Step towards Building Robust Indian Strategic Thinking
Kriti Singh · 08 Jun, 2010 · #3144 · Commentary
“A careful analysis of strategic culture could help policymakers establish more accurate and empathetic understandings of how different actors perceive the game being played, reducing uncertainty and other information problems in strategic...
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The Annual Report of the MoD: Need for Change?
Bhartendu Kumar Singh · 08 Jun, 2010 · #3143 · Commentary
Every year, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) comes out with an Annual Report like many other ministries in the Government of India. Considered as a key document on India’s defence policy, the report covers the financial year and is published ...
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Nepal: What Next?
Kriti Singh · 02 Jun, 2010 · #3142 · Commentary
After the end to the brief but traumatic reign of King Gyanendra, in the first ever historic meeting of the Constituent Assembly (CA) on 28 May 2008, Nepal was formally declared as a Federal Democratic Republic. It was followed by Nepal’s ...
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Nepal: What Next?
Nishchal N Pandey · 01 Jun, 2010 · #3141 · Commentary
Nepal's fragile peace process just met with the most serious accident of its kind. The country's first ever Constituent Assembly (CA) could not draft a new Constitution by the stipulated deadline of 28 May. To make matters worse, its own...
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On Maoist Killings
Devyani Srivastava · 31 May, 2010 · #3140 · Commentary
The recent spate of Maoist attacks – the killing of 76 security personnel (6 April) and over 35 civilians including Special Police Officers (SPO) (17 May) in Dantewada district, Chhattisgarh – has considerably intensified the specter...
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Sri Lanka: One Year after the War, Where is Ethnic Reconciliation?
N Manoharan · 31 May, 2010 · #3139 · Commentary
It is one year since the Sri Lankan government declared ‘victory over terrorism’. However, efforts in finding a long-term political settlement to the ethnic issue is nowhere in sight. Presently, the top priority of the Rajapaksa regi...
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ASEAN and SAARC: Foreign Direct Investments
Harnit Kaur Kang · 31 May, 2010 · #3138 · Commentary
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh admitted in his opening statement at the 16th SAARC summit in Thimphu, Bhutan that, “Investment flows in South Asia are far below what we see in Southeast and East Asia. They are also well below potentia...
