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The New START, its positives, and the imponderables

The durability of the New START will depend largely on how both sides value it as a means towards disarmament rather than for strategic competition.

A. Vinod Kumar
January 07, 2011
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The US Defence Acquisition System

This paper makes an attempt to analyse and evaluate the US Department of Defence Acquisition System by highlighting the relationship of the requirements generation and budgeting process, the key actors, the major phases in an acquisition programme, and the major categories of acquisitions. It argues that the Department of Defence Acquisition System represents an ever evolving system-of-systems that attempts to translate Warfighter requirements into actual developed, purchased and fielded systems.

China’s ‘all-weather friendship’ with Pakistan: Implications for India

If the achievements of Premier Wen’s visit to India were more pronounced in terms of economic content, his visit to Pakistan was more characterised by political and strategic significance.

R N Das
January 04, 2011
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South Korea’s show of force and designation of the North as ‘Enemy’

Soon after naming the North Korean regime as its “enemy”, South Korea has, quite abruptly, invoked the desirability of reverting to the Six-Party Talks.

Preeti Nalwa
January 04, 2011
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Defence against Terrorist Attacks: Game Theory can Help

By postulating that the players think ahead not just to their immediate consequences, but also to the others, game theory can provide a framework to think about defending against terrorist attacks.

Sarita Azad
January 03, 2011
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A New Phase in India-Sri Lanka Relations

The recent increase in top level Indian delegation visits to Colombo indicates that India has entered a new and more comprehensive phase of bilateral relations with Sri Lanka.

In the Footsteps of the OPEC: Trends in Collective Bargaining over Natural Resources

The new World Economic Order, advocated at the end of the Sixth Special Session of the UN General Assembly through a Declaration in Action Programme, and later by the regular session of the Assembly in the form of the Charter of Economic Rights and Duties, poses quite a few problems. Its legal validity, its political wisdom, its economic content and a host of other issues have been questioned. The two instruments contain provocative provisions, like the right to nationalise foreign property.