Look Beyond NPT’s Framework

As anticipated, the NPT (Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty) Review Conference held at the UN in New York (May 2-27) ended acrimoniously with no final agreed document among the 188 state parties...

• C Uday Bhaskar |
• June 14, 2005 |
• IDSA Comments

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Space as a military base: This could well be the future of warfare

Recent wars have proved that observation from space is an integral part of modern day conflict. Space is considered the fourth dimension of warfare. In all these wars, American space...

• Ajey Lele |
• June 06, 2005 |
• IDSA Comments

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Karakoram Impasse

As the Karakoram Highway reopened on May 2, 2005, for traffic between China and Pakistan, the area surrounding it continues to be tense. The Northern Areas (NA) of Pakistan Occupied...

• Alok Bansal |
• June 02, 2005 |
• IDSA Comments

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Koizumi’s Visit to India: Forgotten Friendship to Active Partnership

Japan’s relations with India are at crossroads, even as we recently completed 53 years of the establishment of diplomatic ties. The visit of Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi recently as...

• Arpita Mathur |
• June 02, 2005 |
• IDSA Comments

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The Spirit of Bandung

Exactly fifty years back in 1955 leaders from 29 countries spanning Asia and Africa met in the town of Bandung on West Java in Indonesia from April 18 to 25...

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• May 30, 2005 |
• IDSA Comments

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NPT: Crisis of Compliance

The agenda of the NPT Rev Con, currently underway in New York, has now been finalized. Moreover, the Chairman of the Rev Con, Ambassador Sergio Duarte of Brazil has also...

• Manish |
• May 24, 2005 |
• IDSA Comments

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UN Reforms and India: Need for Calibrated Prudence

Ms Shirin Tahir-Kheli, the special adviser to the US government on UN reforms, will be in Delhi this week, beginning Monday, and clearly of the 101 proposals in six different...

• C Uday Bhaskar |
• May 24, 2005 |
• IDSA Comments

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Global Order and the Second World War

Every war is waged to fashion a better and more acceptable peace. Peace, in the sense of a legitimate framework within which States can pursue their interests without recourse to...

• S. Kalyanaraman |
• May 16, 2005 |
• IDSA Comments

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The NPT Review Conference: Redo the Regime

The immediate challenge ahead for the state parties to the NPT in the ongoing Review Conference, May 2-27, 2005 in New York, is how to salvage the tarnished image of...

• Rajesh Kumar Mishra |
• May 13, 2005 |
• IDSA Comments

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Revival of Racism in Fiji

Several events in Fiji have once again opened the festering wounds of racism and revived the apprehensions of Indo-Fijians about their future in this island State. The first was when...

• Alok Bansal |
• May 10, 2005 |
• IDSA Comments

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Koizumi Visit – Need to Advance Strategic Dialogue and Content

The visit of the Japanese PM Mr. Junichiro Koizumi to Delhi on April 29 is the last in a series of high levels visits that have the potential to fundamentally...

• C Uday Bhaskar |
• May 02, 2005 |
• IDSA Comments

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EU Arms Embargo on China: The German debate

The move by the European Union (EU) to lift the 15-year old arms embargo on China seems at present to have been set aside till the end of 2005. An...

• Alok Rashmi Mukhopadhyay |
• May 02, 2005 |
• IDSA Comments

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The sky is no limit: Rivalry between Boeing and Airbus goes back a long way

It's a strange coincidence that Air India approved the purchase of up to 50 long-range Boeing aircraft at a cost of about Rs 300 billion and at the same time...

• Ajey Lele |
• April 29, 2005 |
• IDSA Comments

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UNSC: let India’s track record speak for itself

The visit of UN secretary- general Kofi Annan to Delhi has generated predictable interest in the nature of the relationship that India currently has with this apex global body and...

• C Uday Bhaskar |
• April 26, 2005 |
• IDSA Comments

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Redefining the ties

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao's visit to India would be noted for three landmark steps: The establishment of a strategic and cooperative partnership, the agreement on the political parameters and guidelines...

• Sujit Dutta |
• April 26, 2005 |
• IDSA Comments

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Trade bloc: Can we trust China?

Globalisation and regionalisation of trade and investment are drawing in all countries and becoming an irresistible trend in Asia. China is at the centre of this new structure. Since 1992...

• Sujit Dutta |
• April 25, 2005 |
• IDSA Comments

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The Changing Definition of Kashmir

If the attack on the district collector’s office in Srinagar in January and the attack on the Jammu and Kashmir tourist office on the eve of the inauguration of the...

• Ashutosh Misra |
• April 15, 2005 |
• IDSA Comments

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Sino-Indian Ties Critical for Emerging Strategic Systemic

Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao's visit to New Delhi on April 11-12 comes soon after that of US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice (March 16) and will be followed by...

• C Uday Bhaskar |
• April 11, 2005 |
• IDSA Comments

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Global Oil Politics and the Energy Security in the Asian region

The oil price in the international energy market appears set to remain high for the rest of this year despite the attempt of the oil giants to increase production. The...

• J Nandakumar |
• April 11, 2005 |
• IDSA Comments

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Major Shift in U.S. Policy to South Asia: Democracy in Pakistan More Critical Than F 16s

The visit of US Secretary of State Ms. Condi Rice to Delhi on March 16 had generated considerable optimism about where India-US ties are headed and this was highlighted in...

• C Uday Bhaskar |
• April 05, 2005 |
• IDSA Comments

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