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
Australia Group In 1984, a report, of a special investigatory commission appointed by the United Nations Secretary General, pointed the finger at western countries for supplying chemical agents used in the Iran-Iraq…... Rajiv Nayan | July-September 2008 | CBW Magazine
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 | IDSA Comments
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 | IDSA Comments
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 | IDSA Comments
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Deal and the Future of Indo-US Ties Now that the IAEA Draft Agreement is on the World Wide Web and the Communists have withdrawn their support to the UPA, it is reasonable to assume that the next...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 | IDSA Comments
The Growing Threat of WMD Terrorism Terrorism is both a subjective and a pejorative term. This being so, difficulties emerge in attempting to find a definition of terrorism that can be classified as universal. The key…... Harsh V. Pant | July-September 2008 | CBW Magazine
