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  • Afghan Presidential Elections: The Road So Far
    Raghav Sharma    ·   11 Sep, 2009    ·    #2966    ·    Commentary    
    The second Afghan Presidential elections which concluded on 20 August 2009 were marked by a low voter turnout, of approximately 40 per cent, allegations of widespread fraud and 400 incidents of violence- making it the most violent day in Afghani...
  • Time to Reassess Indo-Nepal Relations
    Padmaja Murthy    ·   10 Sep, 2009    ·    #2965    ·    Commentary    
    The Prime Minister of Nepal came on a five day goodwill visit to India from August 18-22. The visit was preceded by two other important visits from Nepal – that of Defense Minister Bidhya Bhandari and Foreign Minister Sujatha Koirala. All ...
  • India-ASEAN FTA: The Road Ahead
    AN Ram    ·   07 Sep, 2009    ·    #2964    ·    Commentary    
    Ever since India and ASEAN upgraded their Sectoral dialogue partnership to full dialogue partnership in 1995, there have been suggestions that India and ASEAN enter into a Free Trade Agreement (FTA). Admittedly, in the initial period and even to...
  • An Asia-Centric Foreign Policy for Japan
    Rajaram Panda    ·   04 Sep, 2009    ·    #2963    ·    Commentary    
    The historic landslide victory by the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) in the elections to the House of Representatives (Lower House) held on 30 August reflects the ascendancy of centre-left politics in Japan. The Liberal Democratic Party of Japa...
  • China's 'Stride 2009' and India
    Bhartendu Kumar Singh    ·   03 Sep, 2009    ·    #2962    ·    Commentary    
    All countries conduct military exercises. China is no exception. In recent times in fact, China has engaged in more military exercises than any other country. Some were on Chinese soil, others were conducted in distant waters, in association wit...
  • Russia Seeks a Role in ‘Af-Pak’: Interests and Concerns
    Jyotsna Bakshi    ·   31 Aug, 2009    ·    #2961    ·    Commentary    
    On assuming office, President Barack Obama spoke of ‘resetting buttons’ of America’s relations with Russia. Henry Kissinger’s article which appeared on 26 February 2009 in the Washington Post, reaffirmed a shift in thinki...
  • The Strategic Significance of Arihant
    M Shamsur Rabb Khan    ·   31 Aug, 2009    ·    #2960    ·    Commentary    
    With the launch of Arihant, India’s first indigenously built nuclear-powered submarine, on 26 July India has become the sixth country in the world after US, Russia, UK, France and China to develop its own nuclear submarine. Rightly hailed ...
  • India's Thermonuclear Test: Bombed?
    Ali Ahmed    ·   29 Aug, 2009    ·    #2959    ·    Commentary    
    A controversy has erupted over the Pokhran II tests with a former DRDO scientist and Director General of the prestigious IDSA, Dr K Santhanam, observing that the thermonuclear test was a ‘fizzle’. The timing of the controversy is of ...
  • Establishing an Indian Space Command
    Radhakrishna Rao    ·   27 Aug, 2009    ·    #2958    ·    Commentary    
    The once tranquil expanse of outer space is slowly but inexorably emerging as the fourth dimension of the ancient business of warfare. Taking into account the evolving dynamics of the future battlefield scenario, USA, Russia and China are all ke...
  • Beyond the Chinese fantasy: Will India Disintegrate?
    Bhartendu Kumar Singh    ·   25 Aug, 2009    ·    #2957    ·    Commentary    
    The recent proposition by a Chinese strategist that China should facilitate ‘the disintegration of India’ into some 30 smaller states, so as to decimate all challenges to its supremacy and establish a pax-Sinica in the Asia-Pacific r...
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