China and North Korea: A Puzzle of Sorts? With its repeated admissions of an ongoing nuclear weapons development programme utilising highly enriched uranium, and with an alarmingly advanced missile launching capability, North Korea is at the fulcrum of... Raviprasad Narayanan | June 29, 2005 | IDSA Comments
Iranian Elections: President-elect and Regional Security The results of the second round of elections in Iran's ninth Presidential elections, announced June 24, are not unexpected given that the first round held on June 17 revealed that... C Uday Bhaskar | June 28, 2005 | IDSA Comments
Pak Support to Terrorism: Yasin Malik Revelation The gratitude expressed by the JKLF Chairman Yasin Malik in his recent visit to Islamabad has caused a major flutter on both sides of the Indo-Pak border. On Monday (June... C Uday Bhaskar | June 20, 2005 | IDSA Comments
Look Beyond NPT’s Framework As anticipated, the NPT (Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty) Review Conference held at the UN in New York (May 2-27) ended acrimoniously with no final agreed document among the 188 state parties... C Uday Bhaskar | June 14, 2005 | IDSA Comments
Space as a military base: This could well be the future of warfare Recent wars have proved that observation from space is an integral part of modern day conflict. Space is considered the fourth dimension of warfare. In all these wars, American space... Ajey Lele | June 06, 2005 | IDSA Comments
Karakoram Impasse As the Karakoram Highway reopened on May 2, 2005, for traffic between China and Pakistan, the area surrounding it continues to be tense. The Northern Areas (NA) of Pakistan Occupied... Alok Bansal | June 02, 2005 | IDSA Comments
Koizumi’s Visit to India: Forgotten Friendship to Active Partnership Japan’s relations with India are at crossroads, even as we recently completed 53 years of the establishment of diplomatic ties. The visit of Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi recently as... Arpita Mathur | June 02, 2005 | IDSA Comments
The Spirit of Bandung Exactly fifty years back in 1955 leaders from 29 countries spanning Asia and Africa met in the town of Bandung on West Java in Indonesia from April 18 to 25... | May 30, 2005 | IDSA Comments
NPT: Crisis of Compliance The agenda of the NPT Rev Con, currently underway in New York, has now been finalized. Moreover, the Chairman of the Rev Con, Ambassador Sergio Duarte of Brazil has also... Manish | May 24, 2005 | IDSA Comments
UN Reforms and India: Need for Calibrated Prudence Ms Shirin Tahir-Kheli, the special adviser to the US government on UN reforms, will be in Delhi this week, beginning Monday, and clearly of the 101 proposals in six different... C Uday Bhaskar | May 24, 2005 | IDSA Comments
