Import of Afghan President’s Visit to India Afghan President Hamid Karzai's four-day state visit to India from April 9-12, 2006 was the fourth since he was appointed Chairman of the Afghan interim administration in December 2001. His... Vishal Chandra | April 26, 2006 | IDSA Comments
Indian Prime Minister’s Visit to Uzbekistan Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is visiting Tashkent April 25-26, 2006 on a two-day state visit to Uzbekistan at the invitation of the Uzbek President, Islam Abduganievich Karimov who himself had... Ramakant Dwivedi | April 25, 2006 | IDSA Comments
Strategic Predominance and Open Market Access: The Twin Pillars of Russia’s Policy in the Central Asia-Caspian Sea Region As the Russian thinking on its near abroad is crystallizing in the wake of the US withdrawal from Uzbekistan's Karshi-Khanabad airbase in late 2005, it appears that Moscow is aiming... Jyotsna Bakshi | April 10, 2006 | IDSA Comments
Charles Taylor’s Arrest: A Message to the Continent Former Liberian President Charles Taylor, wanted for war crimes by the international tribunal in Sierra Leone, was arrested on Wednesday in northern Nigeria on the Cameroon border. He was deported... Nivedita Ray | April 04, 2006 | IDSA Comments
The Indian Navy’s Amphibious Leap: ‘With A Little Help From America’ It remains to be seen how the USA would "help India become a major world power" as the US Secretary of State stated a year ago, but Washington is certainly... Gurpreet S Khurana | April 03, 2006 | IDSA Comments
Water as a Source of Conflict and Instability in China China’s focus on high economic growth over the last decade and ‘economy first’ principle have put serious strain on its water resources. China has only 7 per cent of the... Kathleen A. Cannon | April 2006 | Strategic Analysis
The Politics of Reform in China: Deng, Jiang and Hu This paper seeks to understand the political dynamics that operates behind reforms in China. To interpret the political influences that have, and are, determining the course and trajectory of the... Raviprasad Narayanan | April 2006 | Strategic Analysis
Radical Islamic Movements: Gender Construction in Jamaat-i-Islami and Tabligh-i-Jamaat in Pakistan Muslim women are generally viewed as victims of prevailing religious and patriarchal discourses. Their subjectivity and subordinate position is discussed as imposed, through textual representations by orthodox and radical Muslims.... Tahmina Rashid | April 2006 | Strategic Analysis
MMA-Democracy Interface in Pakistan: From Natural Confrontation to Cohabitation? The myth regarding religious parties in Pakistan possessing street power sans political power was broken with the success of the Muttahida Majlise Amal’s (MMA)—a coalition of Muslim parties and groups—... Ashutosh Misra | April 2006 | Strategic Analysis
Religious Extremism in Ferghana Valley A series of disturbing events— from the Tashkent bombing in February 1999 to the May 13, 2005 incidents in Andijon city in Ferghana Valley of Uzbekistan— have drawn attention to... Ramakant Dwivedi | April 2006 | Strategic Analysis
