IDSA Comments - MP-IDSA

Former Maoists In Ecological Task Force Units In Nepal

In the just concluded two-day conference at the IDSA on “Changing Political Context in India’s Neighbourhood: Prospects of Regional Cooperation”, Dr Hari P. Bhattaria from Tribhuvan University, Nepal alluded to...

P. K. Gautam |
November 11, 2008 |
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The Need For Clarity In India’s Nuclear Doctrine

While the Draft Nuclear Doctrine of August 1999 was an elaborate document, the press release of the Cabinet Committee on Security on India’s operationalisation of its nuclear doctrine of January...

Ali Ahmed |
November 11, 2008 |
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Global Financial Crisis: Is there a Way Out?

President Bush will host the first ever financial summit of the G-20 on November 15, 2008 in Washington to discuss the current global financial crisis which threatens the economic and...

Arvind Gupta |
November 05, 2008 |
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Violence in Pakistan: Trend Analysis September 2008

Although September coincides with the holy month of Ramzan in the Islamic calendar, the violence in Pakistan during the month surpassed that in August, which itself was the most violent...

Can India ever Trust China?

The two recent glorious achievements - the Olympics and spacewalk mission – seem to have transcended China to a new global height with wide implications for the world’s strategic balance....

P. Stobdan |
October 27, 2008 |
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The oil price Conundrum

As the saying goes, everything that goes up had to come down. The same holds true for the price of oil, which has seen a slide of around 55% in...

Shebonti Ray Dadwal |
October 24, 2008 |
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Piracy off Somalia: Can Naval Patrolling be the ‘Antidote’?

Since 2005, the ‘centre of gravity’ of Asian piracy has clearly shifted westwards from Southeast Asia to the western Indian Ocean. The Somalia-based pirates are on the rampage, capturing vessels...

Gurpreet S Khurana |
October 22, 2008 |
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Resolving the Bodo Militancy

Bodo militancy can be effectively resolved by accommodating the only surviving Bodo militant outfit within the existing self-governing territorial council that came into existence in 2003. In the mid-1980s, the...

M. Amarjeet Singh |
October 20, 2008 |
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HUJI as a Political Party: Where is Political Reform in Bangladesh Headed?

The caretaker government in Bangladesh had assumed power with the objective of bringing about a new political culture in the country. This aim had made them decide upon a crackdown...

Anand Kumar |
October 20, 2008 |
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The Significance of Shenzhou-VII

On October 7, 2008, the PLA Daily reported that the Central Military Commission (CMC) and the four general departments of the Chinese military celebrated in great style the success of...

Jagannath P. Panda |
October 16, 2008 |
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Is India on the Path to Vibrant Defence Industry?

What does it take to be ‘a vibrant industry’ or more specifically ‘vibrant defence industry’? Broadly, it would demand that the industry should be innovative in terms of processes and...

N. Neihsial |
October 08, 2008 |
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Prachanda’s Visit to India: Beginning of a New Dawn

No other recent visit to India has been so eagerly awaited as that of Pushpa Kumar Dahal, alias Prachanda, the Maoist revolutionary turned democrat and Prime Minister of ‘New Nepal’....

Alok Bansal |
October 08, 2008 |
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Violence in Pakistan: Trend Analysis for August 2008

The recent suicide attack on Mariott Hotel in Islamabad has once again focussed international attention on Pakistan. Violence in Pakistan is now moving from the periphery to the heartland. The...

T. Khurshchev Singh , Alok Bansal |
September 30, 2008 |
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Averting Terror Attacks

On September 13, five serial bombs shattered the weekend peace across several popular market complexes in New Delhi, killing 30 innocent civilians and injuring nearly 90. An elusive outfit calling...

Namrata Goswami |
September 25, 2008 |
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An Overview of the Russo-Georgian Conflict

Georgia was a constituent republic of the former USSR. In 1991, the dissolution of the Soviet Union led to the independence of Georgia. In turn, the autonomous regions of Georgia,...

Ali Ahmed |
September 25, 2008 |
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Taiwan’s Failure at the UN

Will Taiwan ever participate in the United Nations? Pessimist views have started flowing after the rejection of Taiwan’s fresh bid for ‘meaningful participation in international agencies’ at the UN on...

Jagannath P. Panda |
September 24, 2008 |
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Iraq beyond the Troop Surge: Fragile Security Gains, Tenuous Political Stability

The military commander most associated with executing President George Bush’s ‘troop surge’ in Iraq, Gen. David H. Petraeus, handed over command of US forces to Lt. Gen. Raymond Odierno on...

S. Samuel C. Rajiv |
September 24, 2008 |
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Revisiting the Kosi Agreement: Lessons for Indo-Nepal Water Diplomacy

The year 2008 has witnessed yet another disastrous flood in North Bihar. Floods in Bihar have been almost an annual phenomenon. Though the capacity of the river flow was well...

Medha Bisht |
September 22, 2008 |
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Explaining China’s India Policy

Let the fact speak for itself. China was not happy about India gaining the waiver in the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) and it played the role of a spoiler till...

Abanti Bhattacharya |
September 17, 2008 |
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NATO Expansion Hits Russian Roadblock in Georgia

The Russian military blitzkrieg to counter the Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili’s dispatch of his Israeli and US trained and equipped forces to retake the breakaway region of South Ossetia on...

Thomas Mathew |
September 17, 2008 |
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