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The Role of Myanmar’s Military in Democratic Transition and Implications for India

Myanmar military’s ethos can be traced back to the country’s national struggle for freedom with its founding fathers being of socialist persuasion rather than professional soldiers (Burma Independence Army; founded by a group of nationalists know....

December 06, 2013 Neighbourhood Studies , Myanmar , Tatmadaw , Burma Independence Army , Myanmar Armed Forces , Military Scenario

Tibet: Perspectives and Prospects; Edited by Prabhat P. Shukla, Vivekananda International Foundation and Aryan Books International; PP 405; Price Rs 995

R N Ravi

A Wake Up Call for India and the World Among the major man-inflicted mass tragedies of the 20th century, Tibet stands out as the one that received the world’s least attention for post-event rehabilitation and trauma mitigation. A country ....

December 05, 2013 Neighbourhood Studies , Tibet , UNGA resolution , China , Book Published , Tibetans , Tibet policy , International Community

New Pak Army Chief: Nawaz Sharif Gambles on Old Criteria

Sushant Sareen

Out of all the names being tossed around as the possible replacement for Gen Ashfaq Kayani, it is the dark horse – Gen Raheel Sharif – who has finally been appointed as the Pakistan Army’s 15^th chief. Apparently, Gen Sharif’s name ....

November 28, 2013 Neighbourhood Studies , Pakistan

Western Discourse on Pak Nukes Exposes ‘Double Standards’ Vis-a-Vis India

Arundhati Ghose

It certainly cannot be the cooler days in Delhi that has attracted, in recent weeks, so many concerned western ‘experts’ to the capital, to discuss the abstruse-to the Indian public-subject of “strategic stability” in Asia/ in the sub-contine....

November 28, 2013 National Security and Strategic Studies , Neighbourhood Studies , Nuclear and Disarmament , Pakistan

Launch of the book Tibet: Perspective and Prospects

Tibet: Perspectives and Prospects, a publication of Vivekananda International Foundation, was launched on 6^th November 2013, by His Holiness the 17^th Gyalwang Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje. Shri Ajit Doval KC, Dir....

November 18, 2013 Neighbourhood Studies , Tibet , Book Discussions , China , Chinese sovereignty , UN General Assembly Resolution

Indian Foreign Policy Being Undermined from Within

Amb Kanwal Sibal

The political controversy generated over Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s participation in the Commonwealth Summit (CHOGM) in Sri Lanka on November 15 deepens mounting concerns about our foreign policy being increasingly determined not by our overal....

November 15, 2013 Neighbourhood Studies , Sri Lanka

Pakistan: When Enemy No. 1 Becomes Martyr No.1, The War is Lost

Sushant Sareen

What is to be made of a society, people and country whose political leadership erupts in anger and weaves bizarre conspiracy theories because its self-declared ‘enemy no. 1’ is eliminated in a drone attack by a country which has not only accorded....

November 08, 2013 Neighbourhood Studies , Pakistan

Balochistan- The New Regional Tinderbox?

Monish Gulati

On 25 October 2013, the Iranian State News Agency reported that fourteen Iranian border guards were killed and five wounded in clashes with “armed bandits” near Saravan on Iran’s southeastern border with Pakistan. There were also reports of thr....

November 06, 2013 International Relations and Diplomacy , Neighbourhood Studies , Central Asia , Afghanistan , Pakistan

The Kashmir Dispute—the Faultlines

Dr M K Teng

In the dynamics of history and the variables which govern the course of political sociology, historians do not make history. They only record its course and describe the forces and narrate the events, which are a reality that the historians cannot di....

November 04, 2013 Jammu & Kashmir , National Security and Strategic Studies , Neighbourhood Studies , Pakistan , Historical and Civilisational Studies

Afghanistan Is Far from Being Lost: A Situation Report From The Ground

Lt General R K Sawhney, PVSM, AVSM, Centre Head & Senior Fellow, National Security and Strategic Studies & Internal Security Studies, VIF

First Impressions: Uncertainty, yes; but also Optimism about future The creeping sense of despondency, even defeatism, over the future of Afghanistan post 2014 that seems to have set in among a section of the strategic community and top pol....

October 23, 2013 Neighbourhood Studies , Afghanistan