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Why is Japan important to India’s energy security?

India is trying to deal with its domestic energy concerns through various measures including reforming its New Exploration and Licensing Policy (NELP), intensifying its efforts in developing domestic unconventional energy...

Manish Vaid |
April 01, 2014 |
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Nuclear Security Summit: An Assessment

In the years to come, a lot more activity on nuclear security can be expected and much of it will arise from the commitment taken by states at the three...

Arvind Gupta , Rajiv Nayan |
March 29, 2014 |
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Hong Kong Elections: Limits of One Country, Two Systems Model

At its core is Beijing’s fear of having a chief executive in Hong Kong who is locally popular and vocally critical about Beijing's policies. Fear perhaps also emanate from Beijing’s...

Avinash Godbole |
March 28, 2014 |
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Does Nuclear Asia have its Own Dangers?

There are no properly functioning Asian security institutions or regimes to regulate Asia’s nuclear politics and has to rely on global institutions and regimes for regulation of its nuclear politics...

Rajiv Nayan |
March 28, 2014 |
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Examining the Maoists’ attacks in Jeeram Ghati

Jeeram Ghati area is part of the Maoist's annual Tactical Counter Offensive Campaign. 2014 is a significant year on two counts: one, it is the tenth year of formation of...

V.K. Ahluwalia |
March 27, 2014 |
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Unshackling the Armed Forces: Need for Greater Delegation of Financial Powers

The recommendations of a committee set up in 2009 to review the delegated powers were accepted by the Defence Minister in December 2010 but soon thereafter these were held in...

Amit Cowshish |
March 25, 2014 |
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UNSC Vote on the Crimean Issue: Why did China Abstain?

The reasons for abstention go far beyond the immediate issue at hand and are enveloped in deep Chinese strategic interests. The Chinese leadership is adamant that there can be no...

R. S. Kalha |
March 21, 2014 |
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Crimean crisis: A New Phase of Cold War?

Putin seems to have concluded that Russia must draw the line at Ukraine. The EU bid to sign trade agreement with Ukraine in December drew Russia’s ire and now Russia...

Arvind Gupta |
March 21, 2014 |
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Chess Game over Crimea

The West will be compelled by their own threats to impose economic sanctions against Russia. But Russia is no Iraq or Iran and may very well retaliate against Western companies,...

K. P. Fabian |
March 20, 2014 |
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RFI for the Basic Trainer Aircraft: New Ray of Hope for the Indian industry

It is difficult to understand why the MoD should bind itself by asking for request for information (RFI) that cannot be compared across all the proposals. What would constitute ‘capability’...

Amit Cowshish |
March 19, 2014 |
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India-China relations: Visa issue

Since China has now become an important location for international sports events, sportspersons from Arunachal Pradesh, who want to participate in such events, are not able to do so because...

R N Das |
March 18, 2014 |
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Offsets Facilitation Cell: Optimizing its Potential

On Feb 14, 2014, MoD issued an office memorandum about operationalization of a Offsets Facilitation Cell. This is the perhaps the first positive step in a long time and the...

Amit Cowshish |
March 14, 2014 |
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The issue of de-militarisation of Northern Province of Sri Lanka

De-militarisation per se is a sensitive issue, however, it is of essence that the Sri Lanka armed forces` role vis-à-vis the provincial administrations or even in the larger island-nation context...

Gautam Sen |
March 13, 2014 |
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Early Trends in Afghan Elections: Abdullah Leads the Show

According to a poll survey, 29 per cent supported the candidacy of Ashraf Ghani, a former World Bank expert, who is one among the three probable candidates President Karzai is...

Why Pakistan cannot defeat the Taliban

The simple truth that has eluded Pakistan is that fighting the Taliban is like fighting a shadow. The Taliban are but a symptom, the real problem is of religious extremism...

Sushant Sareen |
March 10, 2014 |
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Crimea: Thaw in Tensions?

While President Putin has conveyed the message of tough military action, it is highly unlikely that he will order his troops to invade the majority ethnic Russian region of Crimea....

Rajorshi Roy |
March 07, 2014 |
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China and Xinjiang: Kunming incident

The Kunming massacre is bound to have widespread repercussions within Chinese society, particularly for the Muslim minorities. In turn this will lead for calls for enhanced security measures and even...

R. S. Kalha |
March 07, 2014 |
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Upcoming elections in Iraq: Prospects and Challenges

Nouri al-Maliki, the Shiite PM, seeking a third term in office, is facing growing opposition at home, including from his powerful Shia allies. There is also a growing rift within...

Talks with Taliban: war by other means

The situation in Pakistan today is very fragile. Despite the progress on the democratic front, there is a sense of helplessness on how to tackle the menace of terrorism. Unlike...

Yaqoob-ul-Hassan |
March 03, 2014 |
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India-China talks: why soft border is not an option

Soft border is neither an option nor a means to resolve the India-China border dispute. In Chinese conceptualization where borders are innately strategic frontiers, the idea of soft border is...

Abanti Bhattacharya |
March 03, 2014 |
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