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| Indian Defence |
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The Indo-US Strategic Dialogue: Challenges Ahead
Rajeswari Pillai Rajagopalan
29 June 2010 |
| Though India and the US have rebooted their relations with their first ever strategic dialogue, a few key issues will decide the fate of the new strategic partners. These include the geopolitics of AfPak and the war on terror, dealing with China, hi-tech trade and export controls. |
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Disarmament still a talk shop topic
Dr. Rajeswari Pillai Rajagopalan
21 June 2010 |
| As long as Asia continues in the vicious cycle of security and insecurity, the salience of nuclear weapons in the overall security calculus cannot diminish. And the issue of disarmament will remain a talk shop topic. |
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| Procurement & Self Reliance |
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Will talks with Pakistan really reduce trust deficit?
Gen (retd) Ved Malik
18 May 2010 |
| India and Pakistan can no longer afford to fight an all out high intensity war. The old days of military victories and defeats, and forcible major changes of the border or LOC, are over |
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National Defence Budget 2009 - 2010
Deba R. Mohanty
07 March 2009 |
| Extrapolations from resource allocations reveal many systemic flaws that need corrective measures backed by resolute will |
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| Asian Security Dynamics |
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A critique of Obama’s AfPak strategy
Dr. Rajeswari Pillai Rajagopalan*
15 April 2009 |
| Despite pronouncements that al Qaeda/ Taliban is not the problem of the US alone, but an international problem, it appears that the US has a limited objective - ensuring that the Taliban/ al Qaeda do not use the Pakistan-Afghan territory to carry out terrorism against the US |
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Japan and the North Korean missile test
Prof K.V. Kesavan
13 April 2009 |
| North Korea is the only country with which Japan has still not normalised its diplomatic ties. |
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| Future of Conflict |
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India moves first on Kishanganga project
Aashti Salman
06 January 2009 |
| India and Pakistan have finalised plans to build hydro-electric projects over Kishanganga river, but only one country can build a technically feasible power project |
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Pakistan’s nukes not of immediate concern
Lt Gen Vinayak Patankar
01 May 2009 |
| It is axiomatic that Pakistan’s power centre is not its political leadership but the Army; the glue that has held Pakistan together through its many crises |
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| International |
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Trust Deficit and Currency of Hope
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| 16 July 2010 |
| Kanwal Sibal |
| It is not clear what External Affairs Minister's visit to Pakistan in mid-July can realistically achieve in bridging the trust deficit between India and Pakistan. |
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| National |
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| Symbolic, and No More... |
| 19 July 2010 |
| N Sathiya Moorthy |
| Having the Union Cabinet now accepted a new globally identifiable symbol for the Indian Rupee, designed by Udayakumar, New Delhi |
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| Pakistan |
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| Sex Appeal Declines in Indo-Pak Talks |
| 17 July 2010 |
| Saeed Naqvi |
| The day after External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna left for Islamabad, front-page headlines in mainstream English language dailies had set their preferred theme: |
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| Thrust on making borders irrelevant |
| 05 July 2010 |
| Akhilesh B Variar |
| Terrorism, water and Afghanistan form facets of the wide range of issues which allow possible collaboration between India and Pakistan. |
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