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  • Spoilers in the ASEAN-India Free Trade Agreement
    Vibhanshu Shekhar    ·   28 Apr, 2007    ·    #2280    ·    Commentary    
    The ASEAN-India Free Trade Agreement has been waiting for long marked by a series of inconclusive meetings, stalemate in negotiations, and bureaucratic procrastination causing exasperation to advocates of the FTA, as also traders and investors i...
  • India's Strategic Relationship with China and Japan
       ·   28 Apr, 2007    ·    #2279    ·    Commentary    
    Chair:                P R Chari, Research Professor, IPCS Delegation:        Dr Terence Roehrig, Associate Professor, National Security De...
  • The Death of Two Dynasties
    Philip Jakeman    ·   26 Apr, 2007    ·    #2278    ·    Commentary    
    During the run-up to the cancelled January elections, one opinion cut through the political polarisation and achieved some consensus among non-partisan Bangladeshis. Whether articulated by shopkeepers, drivers or high-level UN personnel, this vi...
  • China and Japan - Assessing the Rapprochement
    Rukmani Gupta    ·   26 Apr, 2007    ·    #2277    ·    Commentary    
    Prime Minister Wen Jiabao's recent trip to Japan, the first by a Chinese Prime Minister in seven years, was characterised by Wen as an ice-melting visit, to reciprocate Abe's China visit that was described as an 'ice-breaker.' Du...
  • China's ASAT Test: Implications for India
       ·   26 Apr, 2007    ·    #2276    ·    Commentary    
    Report of Seminar held at the IPCS, 18 April 2007<br> Chair: Maj. Gen. (Retd.) Dipankar Banerjee, Director, IPCS           Speaker: Wg Cdr Ajay Lele, Research Fellow, IDSA On 11...
  • Third Round Table Conference: Publicity Stunt or Towards Peace?
    Priyashree Andley    ·   24 Apr, 2007    ·    #2275    ·    Commentary    
    The third Round Table Conference (RTC) on Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) will be held in New Delhi on 24 April 2007. Ghulam Nabi Azad, Chief Minister, J&K, announced the date after a meeting with the Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh and the Home ...
  • Current Situation in Afghanistan: A Review
       ·   23 Apr, 2007    ·    #2274    ·    Commentary    
    Speaker: Col. Donald Dixon, Commander of the Canadian Strategic Advisory Team for Afghanistan The Strategic Advisory Team (SAT) is approaching two years of service aiding the President of Afghanistan. SAT consists of sixteen men and wom...
  • Tackling Intervention in South Asia
    Firdaus Ahmed    ·   23 Apr, 2007    ·    #2273    ·    Commentary    
    Intervention by states in each other's internal affairs was highlighted in Rahul Gandhi's inadvertent electioneering remarks on his family's role in splitting Pakistan, which has, unsurprisingly, stirred controversy both internally i...
  • Politico-military Developments in Afghanistan: Impact on Security
    Vinod Anand    ·   23 Apr, 2007    ·    #2272    ·    Commentary    
    With the formation of the Jabha-i-Mili or National Front and a change in Taliban's strategy, the situation in Afghanistan has suddenly turned fluid. Its potential for creating further trouble for the embattled Hamid Karzai is considerable as...
  • From CRZ to SEZ: Naxal Reins of Terror
    Rajat Kumar Kujur    ·   21 Apr, 2007    ·    #2271    ·    Commentary    
    It was in August 2001 that the idea of establishing a Compact Revolutionary Zone (CRZ), from the forest tracts of Adilabad (Andhra Pradesh) to Nepal, traversing the forest areas of Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and Bihar, was conceptualiz...
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