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  • The ASEM Dialogue: Opportunities for Southeast Asia?
    Tuli Sinha    ·   06 May, 2010    ·    #3116    ·    Commentary    
    Indonesia’s participation in the sixth Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) interfaith dialog held in Madrid, Spain from 7-9 April, themed as "Consolidation of Religious Freedom and of Mutual Knowledge of Societies through Inter-religious and I...
  • India-Myanmar-Thailand Highway
    Tanvi Pate    ·   06 May, 2010    ·    #3115    ·    Commentary    
    The Trilateral Highway project is an ambitious undertaking which was initially launched under the vestiges of the Mekong Ganga Cooperation (MGC) and later incorporated into the transport sector of Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Tech...
  • Vietnam: Exploited or Empowered?
    Harnit Kaur Kang    ·   06 May, 2010    ·    #3114    ·    Commentary    
    The past decade has seen Vietnam transform into a focal point for major Foreign Direct Investments (FDIs) from Asia, the EU and USA.  The problem however, is that as with many Newly Industrializing Countries (NICs), Vietnam’s trade li...
  • US and Kopassus Training: Strategic and Legal Aspects
    Chloe Choquier    ·   05 May, 2010    ·    #3113    ·    Commentary    
    Kopassus commander Major General Lodewijk Paulus and several high-ranking Indonesian officers recently visited Washington DC to discuss lifting the ban on US training for the elite army special forces – the Komando Pasukan Khusus, known as...
  • Counter-Terrorism in Indonesia: The Price of Success
    Chloe Choquier    ·   05 May, 2010    ·    #3112    ·    Commentary    
    On 22 February 2010, a series of Indonesian police operations led to the discovery of an alleged militant training camp in the Jalin Forest of the province of Aceh. The operations revealed the existence of a previously unknown group calling itse...
  • A Moment of Hope or Despair in Pakistan?
    Prof. Satish Kumar    ·   04 May, 2010    ·    #3111    ·    Commentary    
    The adoption of the 18th Constitutional Amendment Bill by Pakistan’s Parliament and its assent by President Asif Ali Zardari on 19 April 2010 is an event whose importance cannot be minimized. Its significance emanates not merely from the f...
  • Sri Lanka: Why Sustain the ‘State of Exception’?
    N Manoharan    ·   04 May, 2010    ·    #3110    ·    Commentary    
    Despite the formal end of ethnic war, an island-wide Emergency continues in Sri Lanka. Since August 2005, when the Emergency was re-imposed in the wake of the assassination of the then Foreign Minister Lakshman Kadirgamer, the Sri Lankan Parliam...
  • Two Summits; Conflicting Messages
    M Shamsur Rabb Khan    ·   04 May, 2010    ·    #3109    ·    Commentary    
    The two summits in April 2010 – The Nuclear Security Summit in Washington and Nuclear Disarmament Conference in Iran; within a gap of four days has attracted world attention to the danger of nuclear weapons falling into the hands of terror...
  • Kashmir: Tackling the Challenge of Stone Pelting
    Rahul Bhonsle    ·   03 May, 2010    ·    #3108    ·    Commentary    
    Terrorism as a tool for separatism seems to have lost its appeal in Jammu and Kashmir. While sporadic incidents of terrorist violence are likely to continue, this may no longer be the principal agent for change in the days ahead. Yet new forms o...
  • India-Pakistan Dialogue: Going Beyond Thimpu
    Ali Ahmed    ·   03 May, 2010    ·    #3107    ·    Commentary    
    Another opportunity for traction on the India-Pakistan front in the form of the just concluded SAARC summit appears to have been lost. The two states are to have the foreign ministers, aided by their foreign secretaries, review current straits i...
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