Pakistan’s New Trade Policy: A Step in the Right Direction? At a time when Pakistan’s phenomenal economic growth of the past few years under the Musharraf regime has hit a severe road block, the country’s Trade Minister Ahmed Mukhtar, who... Alok Bansal | August 05, 2008 | IDSA Comments
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 | IDSA Comments
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 | IDSA Comments
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 | IDSA Comments
The threat of Bio-terrorism On the August 18, 2008, a meeting of experts on bio-weapons was held in Geneva. The meeting considered (i) national regional and international measures to improve bio-safety and bio-security, including…... Arundhati Ghose | July-September 2008 | CBW Magazine
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 | IDSA Comments
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... Prasanta Kumar Pradhan | July 25, 2008 | IDSA Comments
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 | IDSA Comments
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 | IDSA Comments
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 | IDSA Comments
