COMMENTARIES
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India-China Relations: Transforming Rhetoric Into Reality?
Rukmani Gupta · 27 Sep, 2005 · #1850 · Commentary
In the last month, India and China have taken certain diplomatic initiatives that could well indicate a movement of relations from the realm of official rhetoric to real action. These include the MoU on intelligence sharing that the Indian Home ...
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Casting the die in favour of US: Iran out of India's Strategic Matrix
Beryl Anand · 27 Sep, 2005 · #1849 · Commentary
Peter Morris' book Power (1987) has been celebrated for including the first systematic study of the question, 'Where does the thirst to acquire "power" lead to?' He defines power as "a symbolically generated medium of ...
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Will the US Adopt a Pre-emptive Nuclear Policy?
Ajay Lele · 27 Sep, 2005 · #1848 · Commentary
In the recent UN General Assembly Session, Secretary-General Kofi Annan expressed deep regret over the fate of non-proliferation agenda. The year 2005 could be seen as a 'watershed' for non-proliferation. First, the reluctance of the US ...
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North Korea Nuclear Accord: A Game Of Diplomacy
Reshmi Kazi · 27 Sep, 2005 · #1847 · Commentary
After a hiatus of three years and four rounds of intensive deliberations by the Six Party negotiators on the issue of denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, an agreement has finally evolved whereby North Korea has pledged to dismantle its nuc...
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Afghanistan, Resurgent Taliban and India
Happymon Jacob · 20 Sep, 2005 · #1846 · Commentary
Elections to Afghanistan's 249-member Lower House and 34 provincial councils have just been conducted. Despite strict warnings from the resurgent Taliban and other splinter groups fighting the Karzai regime, it is widely held that these elec...
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A Positive Gesture to Afghanistan
Mridusmita Borah · 20 Sep, 2005 · #1845 · Commentary
The visit of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and External Affairs Minister K Natwar Singh to Afghanistan from 27-28 September 2005 demonstrated New Delhi's commitment to "work wholeheartedly" with Kabul, thereby making a strat...
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The Meaning of Koizumi's Victory
Jabin T Jacob · 19 Sep, 2005 · #1844 · Commentary
Untitled Document
Junichiro Koizumi led his Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) to a decisive victory
in the 11 September elections to the Japanese Diet's Lower House. The Japanese
public rewarded Koizumi's risk-taking and party purges...
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Blasts in London: Tremors in Pakistan
· 19 Sep, 2005 · #1843 · Commentary
Recent weeks have seen the repercussions of the London bombings reverberating across Pakistan. General Musharraf, bent on convincing the international community of his unswerving commitment to rid his country of all that nurtures terrorism, is o...
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Balochistan Still Simmering
Alok Bansal · 19 Sep, 2005 · #1842 · Commentary
The insurgency in Balochistan is far from over. Apart from a series of bomb blasts and attacks on gas pipelines, the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) claims that it shot down a Pakistan Air Force (PAF) fighter aircraft on 10 September. During t...
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China's Oceanic Offensive: India's Policy Options
Smita · 17 Sep, 2005 · #1841 · Commentary
China, already the largest power in Asia, is gradually emerging as a major global player and will acquire strong military and economic capabilities in the coming decades. This comprehensive transformation has important implications for India. In...
