IDSA Comments - MP-IDSA

India can drive a hard bargain on the IPI Pipeline

The general impression is that Iran has gained tremendously from rising oil prices, fuelled by its vast oil wealth. In reality, however, given increased domestic consumption coupled with inefficient usage...

Rohit Pattnaik |
February 23, 2007 |
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Aero India 2007: The Lure of India’s Burgeoning Aerospace Market

The Sixth Aero India Aerospace and Defence Exhibition held from February 07 to 11, 2007 was by all accounts a 'big' event. The biennial gathering was organized jointly by the...

S. Samuel C. Rajiv |
February 22, 2007 |
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Why are we talking about an OGEC now?

In January 2007, when the Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei suggested to the Secretary of the Russian Security Council, Igor Ivanov, that the two countries should explore setting up an...

Shebonti Ray Dadwal |
February 21, 2007 |
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The US Defence Budget for 2008

On February 5, 2007, President Bush presented his administration's budget for fiscal year 2008 (October 1, 2007 to September 30, 2008). Out of a total budgetary allocation of US $2.9...

Laxman Kumar Behera |
February 21, 2007 |
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A Tightrope Walk in the Korean Peninsula

Earlier speculations negating the possibility of one-on-one talks between the United States and North Korea after Pyongyang conducted a nuclear test have proven wrong. Irrespective of the merits or the...

Rajesh Kumar Mishra |
February 19, 2007 |
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China’s Ambitions in Space

It may be a mere coincidence that the People's Daily, official mouth piece of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), decided to carry two pieces on China's ongoing space programme on...

M. V. Rappai |
February 19, 2007 |
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Growing Fundamentalism in the Northeast

The disturbing reports about the presence of jihadi forces in India's northeast have added a new twist to the region's multiple insurgencies. Combined with the recent arrest in Delhi of...

M. Amarjeet Singh |
February 19, 2007 |
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Fake Killings in Jammu & Kashmir: Need for Checks and Balances

The recent uproar in Jammu and Kashmir over 'fake killings' has once again turned public attention towards the issue of human rights violations by law enforcement agencies. The State is...

B. S. Sachar |
February 13, 2007 |
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The Way to Engage Iran

In addition to the earlier run two pilot cascades of 164 centrifuges, Iran has set up two more cascades of 164 centrifuges each despite repeated calls from the UN Security...

Rajesh Kumar Mishra |
February 12, 2007 |
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The ASAT test and China’s Space Ambitions

With the successful test of its first anti-satellite (ASAT) weapon, China has once again highlighted its impressive achievements in space technology. At the same time, the test is refuelling debate...

Jagannath P. Panda |
February 12, 2007 |
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Securitising Development and the Naxal Threat

It has been generally accepted that the Naxal issue is more than a law and order problem. With the socio-economic dimension being increasingly important along with the military one, a...

Medha Bisht |
February 12, 2007 |
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Rehabilitating Child Soldiers in Nepal

In January 2007, the House of Representatives in Nepal, restored after the people's movement of April, 2006, unanimously adopted an interim Constitution and dissolved itself. This technically paved the way...

Sukanya Podder |
February 03, 2007 |
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China’s Defence White Paper: Can India Draw Some Lessons?

On 29 December 2006, China released its latest white paper on national defence. Though this document is widely perceived as opaque in budgetary facts and figures, it gives policy makers...

Laxman Kumar Behera |
January 31, 2007 |
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President Putin’s Visit to India

Vladimir Putin's visit to India on January 25-26, 2007 provided fresh impetus to the strategic partnership between the two countries. The visit reinforced the interests of both states in maintaining...

Nivedita Das Kundu |
January 30, 2007 |
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Naxalism in Chhattisgarh: Down, not wiped out

Despite the Chhattisgarh government's two-pronged strategy of police operation combined with socio economic programmes against the Naxalites, there appears to be deterioration in the law and order situation in the...

Nihar R. Nayak |
January 30, 2007 |
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Hopeless Search for Peace in the Aftermath of the Second Israel-Lebanon War

As the dust slowly settles down over the battlefields of South Lebanon and North Israel, the major actors in this tragic drama are now debating ways and means to salvage...

V. Krishnappa |
January 25, 2007 |
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Dealing with ULFA’s Terror

The recent orgy of violence perpetrated by the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) has brought the issue of security of the common citizen in Assam to the fore again....

Namrata Goswami , M. Amarjeet Singh , Pushpita Das , Gurinder Singh |
January 22, 2007 |
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LeT finds a new base in Manipur

The first time arrest of three Manipuri Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) members in Delhi on December 19, 2006 indicated the existence of direct linkages between Pakistan-based terrorists and the Meitei Pangal (Muslim)...

T. Khurshchev Singh |
January 22, 2007 |
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Time to Cross the Adam’s Bridge Again

A recent survey by a Colombo-based agency on the peace process revealed that a majority of Sri Lankans prefers India as a peace facilitator rather than the Norwegians. According to...

A. Vinod Kumar |
January 18, 2007 |
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Economics of Indo-US Nuclear Deal

With President Bush signing the India-US nuclear co-operation bill into law, critics and supporters of the bill have once again reinforced their stated positions over the future benefits and losses...

Laxman Kumar Behera |
January 18, 2007 |
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