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  • Preventing Proliferation - Bottling the Nuclear Genie
       ·   08 Oct, 2004    ·    #1517    ·    Commentary    
    Three years after the attack on the World Trade Centre, the War Against Terror is in crisis. The initial and overwhelming support to the US in its hour of tragedy has passed. Today, perhaps a necessary War has become a very complex and a divisiv...
  • Buying Security In Iraq: The Japanese Way
    Vijay Sakhuja    ·   05 Oct, 2004    ·    #1516    ·    Commentary    
    Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi has assured Mr Iyad Allawi, the interim Iraqi Prime Minister that the Japanese Self Defense Forces (SDF) would continue with their assigned mission of reconstruction of the war-torn country. Their current deploym...
  • Democracy and Misgovernance
    R Radhakrishnan    ·   30 Sep, 2004    ·    #1515    ·    Commentary    
    It was rightly said by the poet that the "old order changeth yielding place to new...lest one good custom corrupt the whole"; but one needs to rid oneself of such notions when it comes to Indian politics. India continues to remain a fu...
  • India-Pakistan Relations: Are They Ripe For Normalisation?
    PR Chari    ·   30 Sep, 2004    ·    #1514    ·    Commentary    
    The extraordinary civility shown by President Musharraf and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh towards each other in their speeches to the United Nations General Assembly and their joint press conference in New York this September, in sharp contrast ...
  • Leadership Change in China: Nature and Implications
    Tshering Chonzom    ·   29 Sep, 2004    ·    #1513    ·    Commentary    
    Any new leadership that comes to power prefers to leave behind a legacy of its own while introducing changes. Does Hu harbour such desires? He had acquired the two top leadership posts, General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and...
  • 'Doctors' take Drug Trafficking to New Areas in Eastern India
    Mukul Kumar    ·   28 Sep, 2004    ·    #1512    ·    Commentary    
    Drug trafficking has been a major problem in India's northeast, but this menace now threatens to engulf new areas. What is worse, not only are drugs from the Golden triangle coming into India, some of these routes are now being used to smugg...
  • Proliferation Security Initiative and India
    Reshmi Kazi    ·   28 Sep, 2004    ·    #1511    ·    Commentary    
    The US Secretary of State, General Collin Powell, had emphasized that Washington was looking forward to New Delhi becoming a core member of the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) during his March 2004 visit to India. He felt that India coul...
  • Opportunities for MNC's in India's North East
       ·   28 Sep, 2004    ·    #1510    ·    Commentary    
    The industrial landscape in India has been going through a phenomenal change. Entrepreneur-driven and globally networked industrial enterprises are fast becoming the emblems of the new India. India's Northeastern states are also taking steps...
  • End of Power Struggle in China: Rejuvenation of
    Abanti Bhattacharya    ·   28 Sep, 2004    ·    #1509    ·    Commentary    
    Last year Hu Jintao's leadership ushered in a new diplomacy with the formulation of "peaceful rise" to describe China's emergence and its independent peace policy. This concept  surfaced at the Boao Forum for Asia annual c...
  • Harnessing the Troubled Waters: Sethusamudram Canal Project
    N Manoharan    ·   26 Sep, 2004    ·    #1508    ·    Commentary    
    Why India does not have a continuous navigable route within its own territorial waters? Why should ships from Chennai to Tuticorin or Kolkotta to Mumbai circumnavigate Sri Lanka? The single answer is: absence of deep water connectivity between Pal...
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