History and Power Shift Fuel Sino-Japanese Rift On August 15, 2006, the Chinese Foreign Ministry issued a statement strongly protesting Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's latest visit to the Yasukuni Shrine. Koizumi’s six consecutive visits since he... Abanti Bhattacharya | August 23, 2006 | IDSA Comments
Is Kerala Emerging as India’s New Terror Hub? Not many in the security establishment would like to believe so. A state known for its religious diversity and secular fibre, Kerala also has a sensitive communal melange with conflicting... A. Vinod Kumar | August 22, 2006 | IDSA Comments
Jiang’s Postscript! Calling upon party members to study the Selected Works of Jiang Zemin (SWJZ) in line with a decision taken by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC),... Raviprasad Narayanan | August 21, 2006 | IDSA Comments
Military Lessons of the Israel-Hezbollah War in Lebanon Since the middle of the 20th century, the Arab-Israeli wars have thrown up a number of military lessons. The most spectacular was a textbook pre-emptive counter air strike in 1967... P. K. Gautam | August 19, 2006 | IDSA Comments
President Rahmonov’s Visit to India Tajik President Emomali Sharifovich Rahmonov visited New Delhi during August 6-10, 2006 on a State visit at the invitation of Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh. The visit was preceded by... Ramakant Dwivedi | August 17, 2006 | IDSA Comments
Could Pune be a Future Terrorist Target? Pune, the Oxford of the East and the cultural capital of Maharashtra, is known for its educational institutions and manufacturing industries and as a home for retired service personnel. Lately,... T. Khurshchev Singh | August 17, 2006 | IDSA Comments
The Indo-US Civil Nuclear Co-operation Agreement in the House of Representatives On July 27, 2006, the US House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed the bill HR 5682 for United States and India Nuclear Co-operation Promotion Act of 2006. This bill was submitted... Rajiv Nayan | August 05, 2006 | IDSA Comments
Verification and the BTWC In the post Cold War world, the term Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) emerged as a usable tool. This usage reached a crescendo with the 2002 Iraq disarmament crisis and... Monalisa Joshi | August 01, 2006 | IDSA Comments
The Children and Armed Conflict Agenda and the United Nations: Assessing a Decade of Engagement The international community first began a co-ordinated effort to confront the complexities of the relationship between war and children with Graça Machel's groundbreaking 1996 United Nations study entitled The Impact... Sukanya Podder | July 28, 2006 | Special Feature
Renewed Conflagration in West Asia The conflict involving the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) on two of its borders shows all signs of drawing the entire region into a new round of crisis. Though the current... Rushda Siddiqui | July 26, 2006 | IDSA Comments
