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  • The West and 26/11: A ‘Contain India’ Policy?
    Sanjay Kumar    ·   03 Feb, 2009    ·    #2796    ·    Commentary    
    British Foreign Secretary David Miliband’s remarks on 26/11, tracing its roots to the Kashmir issue, indicates that western countries and Britain’s perceptions on terrorism has not changed much since 9/11. This partisan approach to a...
  • Gorshkov Deal: India’s Helplessness with Russia
    Laxman Kumar Behera    ·   31 Jan, 2009    ·    #2795    ·    Commentary    
    The Gorshkov deal between India and Russia has run into controversy over the price and cost overruns of the planned induction of the 44,500 tonne aircraft carrier into the Indian Navy. The Russian failure to adhere by contractual agreements also r...
  • Courting Astana: Nazarbeyev’s India Visit and Beyond
    Raghav Sharma    ·   30 Jan, 2009    ·    #2794    ·    Commentary    
    Kazakhstan, with the largest proven oil reserves in the region and three of the world’s richest hydrocarbon fields, is hence of prime importance in India’s energy security policy formulation. The international branch of the Indian ...
  • Not Quite an Empty Threat
    Firdaus Ahmed    ·   29 Jan, 2009    ·    #2793    ·    Commentary    
    G Parthasarathy, a leading Indian realist and former High Commissioner to Pakistan, has written in an opinion piece (Times of India, 22 January 2009) that nuclear weapons constitute "an empty threat" for there is "little chance"...
  • 26/11: Yellow Journalism versus State Intervention
    Alok Kumar Gupta    ·   29 Jan, 2009    ·    #2792    ·    Commentary    
    Coverage of the November 2008 Mumbai terror attacks by the Indian media has spurred a debate on the extent to which the media should be regulated in the public interest and the interests of national security. The Government of India is seriously t...
  • Obama's New American Era: Pakistan's Policy Options
    Rabia Akhtar    ·   26 Jan, 2009    ·    #2791    ·    Commentary    
    The question that needs to be raised post the 20 January inauguration of the new US administration is not how Obama will deal with Pakistan but rather how Pakistan should revise its foreign policy agenda with this transition in US government and...
  • India and the 'Global NATO': Expectations and Reservations
    Sonali Huria    ·   26 Jan, 2009    ·    #2790    ·    Commentary    
    NATO is gradually transforming from a Eurocentric military alliance into a global politico-military organization. Michael Ruhle, Deputy Head of the NATO Secretary General's Policy Planning Unit, at a recently concluded India-NATO dialogue in...
  • Engaging a Reluctant Pakistan
    Ali Ahmed    ·   26 Jan, 2009    ·    #2789    ·    Commentary    
    Pakistan's security predicament has been attributed to the definition of national interest being usurped by its Army. The Army in seeking to preserve its institutional interest has conflated its corporate interest with the national interest....
  • Obama and India
    Rajeswari Pillai Rajagopalan    ·   21 Jan, 2009    ·    #2788    ·    Commentary    
    Now that Barrack Hussein Obama has been sworn in as the 44th President of the United States of America, what does it mean for India? Three factors are likely to determine how relations between the US and India will be under Obama. Generally...
  • President Obama and the Challenges of our Times
       ·   20 Jan, 2009    ·    #2787    ·    Commentary    
    History was made in the USA on 20 January 2009 with Barrack Hussein Obama becoming its 44th President. The enormity of this achievement can be appreciated only in the context of the status of African Americans in the country till barely six deca...
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