Comment & Briefs

India-China Strategic Economic Dialogue: Another Positive Step

The SED should eventually create a greater interface at the sub-national level by including other arenas of cooperation like defence, tourism, sports, and cultural interaction involving a wider exchange at the level of people.

October 03, 2011

  • Joe Thomas Karackattu
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    Prospects and Challenges for Expanding India-Japan Economic Relations

    A new tide is visible in Japan for expanding Indo-Japan relations based on mutual complementarities.

    October 03, 2011

  • Makoto KOJIMA
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    Tibetan Waters: A Source of Cooperation or Conflict?

    Lower riparian countries likely to be affected by China’s construction of dams and river diversion projects in Tibet need to initiate a bilateral or multilateral dialogue with China.

    September 30, 2011

  • Hari Bansh Jha
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    The ‘Orchid Revolution’ in Singapore

    The PAP needs to make itself more responsive to the common Singaporean’s demands in order to remain the single-most powerful representative of the people of Singapore.

    September 30, 2011

  • Rahul Mishra
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    Tibetan Waters: A Source of Cooperation or Conflict?

    Lower riparian countries likely to be affected by China’s construction of dams and river diversion projects in Tibet need to initiate a bilateral or multilateral dialogue with China.

    September 30, 2011

  • Hari Bansh Jha
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    Pakistan’s Flood Redux: Need for Institutional Disaster Preparedness

    While the institutional reforms and structures are in place, often their effectiveness is impeded by corrupt practices and lack of proper maintenance and implementation on ground.

    September 30, 2011

  • Medha Bisht
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    Sino-Indian Trade: Smoothening the Rough Edges

    The composition of the Indian delegation to the ongoing Strategic Economic Dialogue is suggestive that issues such as telecom, water, infrastructural development and railways are being discussed on a priority basis.

    September 27, 2011

  • R N Das
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    The party’s over in the Hindu Kush: It’s time for the US to call it a day

    Left behind will be a quasi-theocratic Afghan state compelled to accommodate Talibani-style cultural medievalism and a Pakistani state teetering on the brink of political self-destruction and social chaos.

    September 26, 2011

  • Harold A. Gould
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    The PM’s Speech at the 66th UNGA session: Indian Foreign Policy in Search of a Balance?

    The PM’s speech in the UN General Assembly shows that Indian foreign policy may be rediscovering age old themes which had become subdued in recent years.

    September 26, 2011

  • Arvind Gupta
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    Indian Nuclear Posture: Confusing Signals from DRDO

    India is currently in the midst of a battery of scheduled missile tests at its Chandipur test range off the coast of Orissa, including scheduled tests of the Prithvi-II and Agni-II. On Saturday, India tested, for the third time, a 750-km semi-ballistic missile named Shourya. The Shourya has roughly the same range as the Agni-I but is designed to be more mobile, with a reduced logistics trail.

    September 26, 2011

  • Vipin Narang
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