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  • Strategic and Strengthened partnership: Recent Initiatives in EU- India Relations
    R Ramasubramanian    ·   30 Nov, 2004    ·    #1567    ·    Commentary    
    There are many predictions as to how many and which are to be the poles of this future world structure, but none seems to challenge that the EU will be an important one among them. As Dr. Jean-Luc Racine puts, "this expectation is not based...
  • Escalation Control In a Nuclear Environment
       ·   22 Nov, 2004    ·    #1566    ·    Commentary    
    Speakers:Michael Krepon Ved Prakash Malik P R ChariB M KapurRajesh RajagopalanGurmeet Kanwal Chair:Dipankar Banerjee Introductory Remarks: Dipankar Banerjee When nations with deep grievances acquire nuclear weapons, tensions between t...
  • War on Terror and Revival of Drug Trade in Afghanistan
    Sanjay Kumar    ·   30 Nov, 2004    ·    #1565    ·    Commentary    
    The War on Terror launched by the US in Afghanistan after the attack on the twin towers managed to change the regime in that country. It also improved the security situation in South Asia and the neighbouring regions but has failed to establish ...
  • The Road From Falluja
    Mohan K Tikku    ·   21 Nov, 2004    ·    #1564    ·    Commentary    
    The Iraq war may go down in the annals of journalism as having given birth to the generic curiosity called an “embedded journalistâ€Â...
  • Indo-Myanmar Economic Relations and Northeast Insurgency
    Anand Kumar    ·   21 Nov, 2004    ·    #1563    ·    Commentary    
    There has been a drastic change in India's policy towards Myanmar in recent years. India decided to engage Myanmar through bilateral as well as multi-lateral means as its policy of boycott after the military takeover in the country in 1988 f...
  • Political Issues in Nepal ( Nepal Media Survey - October 2004)
    P G Rajamohan    ·   17 Nov, 2004    ·    #1562    ·    Commentary    
    Political Dilemma Deshantar (3 October) in its report severely indicted the Communist Party of Nepal (UML) leader, Madhav Kumar Nepal's changing statements on the issue of unilateral ceasefire during the Dashain and Tihar festival perio...
  • East Asia Diary - October 2004: Japan's
    Jabin T Jacob    ·   18 Nov, 2004    ·    #1561    ·    Commentary    
    On 4 October 2004, a private, advisorial body to Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, submitted a report titled "The Vision for Future National Security and Defense Capabilities". Consisting of corporate heads, diplomats and acad...
  • Kashmiri Response to Pakistani Scribes' Visit to the Valley
    Noor Ahmad Baba    ·   13 Nov, 2004    ·    #1560    ·    Commentary    
    The political experiences of the Kashmiris for the last more than five decades has moulded their psychological attitudes towards India and Pakistan. The division of the state and thereby the division of its people, has only helped to promote a f...
  • News from the Northeast (Regional Media Survey, October 2004)
    Bibhu Prasad Routray    ·   13 Nov, 2004    ·    #1559    ·    Commentary    
    Ceasefire with NDFB Commenting on the decision of the NDFB to observe a unilateral ceasefire with effect from 15 October, The Assam Tribune (11 October) in its editorial 'Welcome Move' said, "With the NDFB expressing its willin...
  • Merger of Naxal Groups: Threat or Opportunity
       ·   13 Nov, 2004    ·    #1558    ·    Commentary    
    On the eve of the peace talks with the Andhra Pradesh government the two largest Naxalite groups in the country, Communist Party of India Marxist-Leninist (People's War) and the Maoist Communist Centre of India (MCCI) merged to create the co...
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