COMMENTARIES
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Iran’s Nuclear Crisis: Cooperation or Confrontation?
Niraj Kumar · 22 Oct, 2003 · #1185 · Commentary
The September 12 decision of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to serve an ultimatum to Iran regarding its ‘alleged’ nuclear weapons development programme has precipitated another crisis in West Asia. This crisis assumes sign...
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Child Soldiers – III: ‘Baby Brigades’ of the LTTE
N Manoharan · 21 Oct, 2003 · #1184 · Commentary
The LTTE has a long record of recruiting children for combat. Irrespective of gender, children as young as nine years are conscripted mostly by coercion; the average child recruitment age stands at 14 to 17 years. Though the exact number of chil...
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International Security Environment – III: Challenges to India
Maj. Gen. Dipankar Banerjee · 21 Oct, 2003 · #1183 · Commentary
The external security environment presents both challenges and opportunities to India; where the challenges are major, yet there are enormous opportunities.
First, in the area nearest us in South Asia
The obstacles t...
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International Security Environment – II: A Brief Overview of the International Environment
Maj. Gen. Dipankar Banerjee · 20 Oct, 2003 · #1182 · Commentary
In the backdrop of the emerging characteristics of the new era, it may be worthwhile to examine the salient elements of the emerging international environment.
The USA
The US is a pre-eminent power, militarily, economicall...
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International Security Environment – I: Recent Developments and Characteristics of the Era
Maj. Gen. Dipankar Banerjee · 20 Oct, 2003 · #1181 · Commentary
The early years of a new century is as good a time as any to reflect on the international security environment especially when monumental changes are underway. The scope of this outline is to take a broad overview of these major changes and iden...
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Rebel Storm in Assam’s Tea Bowl
Wasbir Hussain · 15 Oct, 2003 · #1180 · Commentary
Anglo-Dutch multinational giant Unilever is back in the news with its Indian subsidiary Hindustan Lever Limited (HLL) admitting earlier this month that it has received a Rs 20 million extortion demand from the separatist United Liberation Front ...
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Politics of Migration in Bhutan
· 15 Oct, 2003 · #1179 · Commentary
The more we move towards globalization the more we witness the emergence of regionalism and ethnic violence. South Asia is no exception. This region has become more vulnerable to terrorism, separatism and political destabilization that have crea...
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Refugee Influx and Environmental Impact in South Asia
R Ramasubramanian · 14 Oct, 2003 · #1178 · Commentary
Refugee related environmental problems have their origin in the sudden imbalance created by the refugee population and the environmental carrying capacity. This is made more serious by the absence of ameliorative environmental actions. South Asi...
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Bangladeshi Migrants (Regional Media Survey, 21-30 September 2003)
Bibhu Prasad Routray · 14 Oct, 2003 · #1177 · Commentary
Migrants from Bangladesh
The impact of illegal migration from Bangladesh is now being felt in Nagaland where a great deal of soul-searching is being done by the intelligentsia on this process. The Nagaland Post (27 September), in its editor...
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Nuclear Nexus and Iran’s Quest for the Bomb
Animesh Roul · 14 Oct, 2003 · #1176 · Commentary
There is an intense debate over Iran’s quest for nuclear weapons and its Uranium enrichment programme which has been discussed in international security conclaves, since the International Atomi...
