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Afghanistan: Political Compromise, Security Challenge and Economic Constraint
October 9 , 2014 Lt General R K Sawhney, PVSM, AVSM, Centre Head & Senior Fellow, National Security and Strategic Studies & Internal Security Studies, VIF Sushant Sareen
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After a keenly contested Presidential election, the result of which came under a serious cloud when Dr Ashraf Ghani Ahmedzai surprised the odds-on favourite Dr Abdullah Abdullah by crossing the half-way...

Afghanistan, Neighbourhood Studies

India in the Asia-Pacific under New Management
October 9 , 2014 Amb Prabhat P Shukla
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It has been a busy September for India’s external relations. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has travelled to Japan, and has welcomed the Australian Prime Minister and the Chinese President in India. He ha...

China, International Relations and Diplomacy

The J&K Flood Disaster : Overcoming Effects on The Security Paradigm
October 6 , 2014 Lt General S A Hasnain, PVSM, UYSM, AVSM, SM (Bar), VSM (Bar) (Retd.), Distinguished Fellow, VIF
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In 2005, one of the major considerations for the inauguration of the Karvan-e-Aman, the Srinagar- Muzaffarabad Bus Service, was the projection of a contrast which was expected to be perceived by the POK...

National Security and Strategic Studies, Jammu & Kashmir

Security Architecture in the Persian Gulf: GCC, Gulf Union or Something Else?
October 1 , 2014 Col Rajeev Agarwal
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The West Asian region has been in turmoil for over three years now. What started off as a local incident in Tunisia in December 2010 engulfed the entire region of North Africa and West Asia in what has ...

West Asia, International Relations and Diplomacy

Progress and Challenges Related to the Indo-US Civil Nuclear Deal
September 24 , 2014 Dr Vijay K. Sazawal
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Introduction This paper seeks to address factors that led to the Indo-US civil nuclear deal, initial expectations, how those expectations evolved over time, policy drivers that keep the two parties from...

National Security and Strategic Studies, Energy Security, US, Nuclear and Disarmament, International Relations and Diplomacy

Need to Appoint Impartial Governors
September 23 , 2014 Dr M N Buch (late)
Views: 7557
Under Article 1 of the Constitution, read with the Preamble, India is sovereign and the sovereignty rests in the Union. The same Article makes India a Union of States, which means that whereas the coll...

Governance and Political Studies

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