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  • Expansion of Southeast Asian Regionalism: Lessons for South Asia
    Aisha Sultanat    ·   11 Aug, 2002    ·    #829    ·    Commentary    
         Formed in 1967, ASEAN is one of the more successful examples of regionalism. It has come a long way since then in forging sub-regional and supra regional linkages. The rise of Southeast Asian regionalism can be seen as a...
  • King’s China Visit: A Renewal of Trust
    Nishchal N Pandey    ·   15 Aug, 2002    ·    #827    ·    Commentary    
         Sino-Nepal relations are characterized by a remarkable continuity and stability both during the 30 years of the Panchayat system and in the last 12 years since the peoples’ movement succeeded in 1990. Despite polit...
  • Bangladesh-Pakistan Relations: The Dawn of a New Era
    Alok Kumar Gupta    ·   15 Aug, 2002    ·    #826    ·    Commentary    
         The three-day much acclaimed but widely criticized visit by the Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf to Bangladesh, his expression of regrets for the excesses committed by the Pakistani army during the 1971 Liberation wa...
  • United States Re-Evaluates the China Military Threat
    Subhash Kapila    ·   11 Aug, 2002    ·    #825    ·    Commentary    
         The American evaluation of the Chinese military threat is an ongoing process conducted by the Pentagon. It is independent of the professions of goodwill and friendly relations between the two countries and the exchange o...
  • Kashmir: Revectoring Indian Strategy
       ·   05 Aug, 2002    ·    #824    ·    Commentary    
         There are two conjoint problems to the present conflict in Kashmir. The basic one is the alienation of the people of Kashmir, having roots in the political mishandling of the state and in the suppression of expression of...
  • Elections in Kashmir-VIII: “There will be larger participation: Prof Riyaz Punjabi”
    D Suba Chandran    ·   11 Aug, 2002    ·    #823    ·    Commentary    
    How do you see foresee the forthcoming elections in Jammu and Kashmir? Foresee in what sense? Whether we are really in a position to conduct free and fair elections, given the fact that the electoral rolls have not been r...
  • Pakistan Constitutional Proposals – I: A Puppet Prime Minister and a Powerless Parliament
    D Suba Chandran    ·   11 Aug, 2002    ·    #822    ·    Commentary    
         Of the proposed amendments to the Pakistani Constitution, the most important is the one empowering the President to appoint and remove the Prime Minister and the Cabinet. This proposal seeks to provide the President with...
  • Center-NSCN(IM) Talks: Hurdles and Prospects – I
    Paolienlal Haokip    ·   05 Aug, 2002    ·    #821    ·    Commentary    
         Beginning with the 1997 ceasefire, the peace process between the Government of India (GOI) and the National Socialist Council of Nagalim–Isak-Muivah faction (NSCN-IM) h...
  • ‘Terrorism’ and Intellectual Responsibility
    Firdaus Ahmed    ·   05 Aug, 2002    ·    #820    ·    Commentary    
         The conceptual contestation over ‘terrorism’, as a term in the strategist’s glossary, has been furious. There is little argument over what constitutes terrorism, but it is widely accepted as being the u...
  • Unified response can defeat PWG ‘paper tigers’
    P V Ramana    ·   05 Aug, 2002    ·    #819    ·    Commentary    
         Direct peace talks between the Andhra Pradesh (AP) government and left-wing extremists of the People’s War Group (PWG) have been stillborn as expected; the PWG was buying time to recoup by proposing these talks. ...
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