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Adrift without a Strategic Culture
March 14 , 2013 Amb Kanwal Sibal
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Does India have a strategic culture? If strategic culture is defined narrowly in the context of the nuclear age alone, then India, as a recent entrant to the nuclear club and still in the process of acq...

National Security and Strategic Studies, Defence

Turning India into An Aerospace Power House to end Defence Import Scams
March 12 , 2013 Radhakrishna Rao
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Frequent eruption of scams and scandals surrounding India’s high profile defence acquisition programme, besides delivering a severe blow to the defence preparedness of the country, has brought into shar...

National Security and Strategic Studies, Defence

Importance of India
March 12 , 2013 Amb Kanwal Sibal
Views: 5510
The back to back visits of French President Francois Hollande and British Prime Minister David Cameron to India in February call attention to the European dimension of our foreign policy. Many in our es...

Europe, International Relations and Diplomacy

From Look East to Engage East: How India’s own Pivot will Change Discourse in Indo-Pacific Region
March 12 , 2013 Nitin Gokhale
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Much before President Barack Obama rediscovered Asia’s importance to the world and announced an American “rebalance” towards Asia-Pacific region in January 2012; New Delhi had quietly upgraded its two d...

Indo-Pacific, International Relations and Diplomacy

Europe Comes Calling
March 8 , 2013 Amb Kanwal Sibal
Views: 5567
The successive visits of French President Hollande and UK Prime Minister Cameron to India this month can be viewed from different angles. Both countries clearly attach increasing importance to the India...

Europe, International Relations and Diplomacy

'Security Implications of Contemporary Political Environment in India'
March 7 , 2013
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Dr. Sudhir S. Bloeria, Vice Chancellor of the Central University of Jammu and Former Chief Secretary of Jammu & Kashmir (This is the text of presentation made by Dr. Bloeria during Vimarsha series o...

National Security and Strategic Studies, Governance and Political Studies

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