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American Foreign Policy Experts Interact with VIF

A discussion with a delegation of American foreign policy experts from the Washington based think-tanks Foreign Policy Initiative and the German Marshall Fund was held on 6 December 2010 at 2.30 p.m. at the VIF. The group consisted of William Kristol....

December 08, 2010 Conference , International Relations and Diplomacy , US , Interaction , American Foreign Policy , Indo-US relations
Cure for the ‘International Migraine’
Sushant Sareen

A perusal of the US embassy cables made public by Wikileaks makes it clear that while the US has all the information and intelligence about the double-game being played by Pakistan, it finds itself clueless, even helpless, in bringing to an end this ....

December 08, 2010 Terrorism , US , Pakistan
Afghanistan: Pakistan’s Kashmir Blackmail
Indranil Banerjie

US President Barack Obama has kept his promise to begin pulling out American soldiers from Afghanistan by 2011. At the recently concluded Lisbon summit (19-20 November 2010), he suggested that 2014 would be the final year for major US combat engageme....

December 07, 2010 Afghanistan
Indian Options in Afghanistan
Lt General Shontanu Choudhary

President Obama, while agreeing to the ‘surge’ as suggested by General Stanley A. McCrystal announced in 2009 that US Army will start pulling out of Afghanistan after July 2011. This has resulted in a suspected loss of morale of the US Army and ....

December 03, 2010 Neighbourhood Studies , Afghanistan
Is the Red Star shadowing the Rising Sun?
Jaideep Saikia

When Manipuri insurgent organisation PLA’s commander-in-chief, Manohar Mayum met journalists in Myanmar’s Somra Tracts (opposite Ukhrul) and proclaimed his group’s alliance with CPI (Maoist) to fight the “common enemy”, the speculation that....

December 03, 2010 North-East Insurgency
National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) : Tryst with Terror
Jaideep Saikia

The killing of 24 people in Assam by NDFB—with a definitive accent on Hindi-speaking targets—has proven not only the futility of prolongation of ceasefires with insurgent organisations, but also the fact that engineering of splits in such outfits....

December 03, 2010 North-East Insurgency
Whither Nuclear Japan?
D. Gnanagurunathan

Not a million dollar question. Nonetheless it has come to occupy the minds of policy makers, strategists and academics alike of late. Let us set aside the usual details for the sake of space and brevity and examine the factors that are attributed to ....

December 03, 2010 Indo-Pacific
Abstracts of Speakers International Seminar on “How Deep are the Roots of Indian Civilization? An Archaeological and Historical Perspective”

Keynote Address delivered by Professor B. B. Lal (Former Director General, Archaeological Survey of India) For quite some time a series of postulates have been distorting our vision of India's past. Some of these are: 1. The Vedas are no o....

December 03, 2010 Historical and Civilisational Studies
Post-election Myanmar and Indian Strategy
D. Gnanagurunathan

As India strives to find its place in the international system and in the region as an important player, the result of the recently concluded 7 November 2010 elections in Myanmar has apparently thrown up some challenges for Indian strategy. There wer....

December 01, 2010 Myanmar
Britain Stands with Rising India: Dr Liam Fox

Rt Hon Dr Liam Fox MP, the British Secretary of State for Defence, delivered a talk on ‘UK Strategic Defence and Security Review’ at VIF on 22 November 2010. Mr Ajit Doval, Director of VIF welcomed the gathering. Dr Fox began with a statement tha....

December 01, 2010 International Relations and Diplomacy , Interaction , United Kingdom , Rising India , Britain
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