IDSA Comments - MP-IDSA

Bangladesh Remains Sensitive on the Issue of Connectivity

Though the recent Indo-Bangladesh Foreign Secretary level talks held in New Delhi made significant progress on several issues, there was no forward movement on the issue of connectivity. Bangladesh remains...

Anand Kumar |
August 04, 2008 |
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Games parties play: Nash equilibrium of the Nuclear Agreement

Game theory is the analysis of strategic interaction among agents. These agents may be two or more people, firms or countries, with both taking into account how the other agent...

Prakarsh Singh |
July 31, 2008 |
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Surging Energy and Food Prices will Accelerate Economic Downtrend in Bangladesh

Rising food and oil prices worldwide have increased the misery of people in Bangladesh who have already been suffering the effects of near double digit inflation. The military backed caretaker...

Anand Kumar |
July 30, 2008 |
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The Unending Iranian Nuclear Crisis

If anybody thought that a change of talk in the Bush administration’s Iran policy would be enough to induce the “isolated” Tehran to give up its intransigence and toe the...

Stanly Johny |
July 25, 2008 |
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The Saudi Inter-faith Initiative

The three day International Islamic Conference on Inter-faith Dialogue (also known as World Dialogue Conference) organised by the Saudi Arabia based World Muslim League (WML) was held in Madrid from...

Will Bangladesh Address India’s Security Concerns?

The spate of talks and meetings between India and Bangladesh is unmatched in recent times. This pace alone sets bilateral relations apart from the five long years when the BNP-led...

Sreeradha Datta |
July 24, 2008 |
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Violations of Ceasefire on the Line of Control: Unravelling Pakistan’s Motive

While addressing the customary press conference after the Foreign Secretary level talks with Pakistan on July 21, 2008, the Indian Foreign Secretary stated that the India-Pakistan dialogue is “under stress”...

Satinder K. Saini |
July 23, 2008 |
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A Way Out of Naga Factional Violence

Nagaland has been up in flames for quite sometime now. For the past eight months or so, heavy inter-factional killings between the National Socialist Council of Nagalim-Isak-Muivah [NSCN (IM)], the...

Namrata Goswami |
July 23, 2008 |
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The July 7 Attack in Kabul and India’s Search for a Response

The July 7 attack on the Indian Embassy in Kabul which left 58 people dead including four Indians and more than 140 wounded was a highly provocative act. Those responsible...

Vishal Chandra |
July 18, 2008 |
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Causes and consequences of Terrorism in Punjab: A Rationalist Perspective

In many ways the story of Punjab is anomalous to the stylized facts of civil war literature. Empirical literature on civil wars points to a negative correlation between income and...

Prakarsh Singh |
July 18, 2008 |
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Private Sector Challenge to Ordnance Factories

Ordnance Factories constitute a major segment of India’s defence industrial set- up, whose other constituents are the Defence Public Sector Undertakings (DPSUs), the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and...

N. Neihsial |
July 17, 2008 |
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Nuclear Deal and the Future of Indo-US Ties

Now that the IAEA Draft Agreement is on the World Wide Web and the Communists have withdrawn their support to the UPA, it is reasonable to assume that the next...

Ramesh Phadke |
July 17, 2008 |
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Should India Continue Its Present Course in Afghanistan?

The July 7 gruesome attack on the Indian Embassy in Kabul, which resulted in the loss of over 40 lives including those of two senior diplomats, is clearly a high...

Should India Engage with NATO?

On the face of it, India and NATO are poles apart. NATO is a military alliance. India is a non-aligned country with an independent foreign policy. Any engagement between India...

Arvind Gupta |
July 08, 2008 |
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The French Quest for NATO

France has taken over the half-yearly presidency of the European Union (EU) Council from Slovenia on July 1. The change of guard at the helm of the EU is a...

The Proliferation Security Initiative: Five years later, losing its sheen?

On May 27, 2008, participants from 91 countries assembled in Washington to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) – a controversial counterproliferation initiative launched by President...

A. Vinod Kumar |
July 07, 2008 |
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Changing US Perspective on Terrorism

Every year the United States releases a report on global terrorist activities as required by its domestic law. The latest report is titled Country Reports on Terrorism and includes developments...

Satinder K. Saini |
July 02, 2008 |
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Cracks in the ULFA

The central leadership of the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) is under pressure following the announcement of a unilateral ceasefire by a section of its cadres. ULFA’s top leaders...

M. Amarjeet Singh |
July 02, 2008 |
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Karzai Raises the Anti-Taliban Rhetoric

Kabul has for long been wary of Pakistan’s idea of negotiating ‘peace’ deals with Taliban militants operating out of its north-western tribal areas. Pakistan’s earlier peace deals in 2004 and...

Vishal Chandra |
June 30, 2008 |
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China and Taiwan: modus vivendi… for now

Encouraging developments on either side of the Taiwan Straits have taken place recently, considerably reducing the ‘shrill atmospherics’ surrounding ‘independence’ and ‘invasion’ by several notches. The primary determinant driving these...