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  • 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...
  • The India-ASEAN FTA: An assessment
    Tuli Sinha    ·   24 Aug, 2009    ·    #2956    ·    Commentary    
    The Union Minister of Commerce and Industry for India, Anand Sharma signed the much-delayed India-ASEAN Free Trade Agreement (FTA) in Thailand on 13 August 2009. As part of the Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement (CECA), the FTA will in...
  • Should Pakistan sign the CTBT?
    Rabia Akhtar    ·   24 Aug, 2009    ·    #2955    ·    Commentary    
    After South Asian nuclearization in 1998, the P-5 and the international community strongly condemned nuclear testing by both India and Pakistan and urged both states to immediately sign the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT). In an initial rea...
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