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Obama in the White House: What’s in it for India
November 9 , 2012 Amb Kanwal Sibal
Views: 5281
President Obama win in 2008 was a truly historic occasion as the election of a non-white to the presidency represented the far reaching social change that had occurred relatively undetected in the Ameri...

US, International Relations and Diplomacy

India’s Nuclear Deterrence Must be Professionally Managed
November 8 , 2012 Brig Gurmeet Kanwal
Views: 13471
India declared itself a state armed with nuclear weapons in May 1998 after the Pokhran tests. Despite the fact that almost 15 years have passed since then, the number of good books on the subject of man...

National Security and Strategic Studies, Nuclear and Disarmament

An Object Lesson for Indian Political Parties
November 5 , 2012 Dr M N Buch (late)
Views: 9755
China is not a democracy and there is the one party rule of the Communist Party of China (CPC). From time to time the Party holds party meetings at which matters of policy are discussed in detail. The ...

Governance and Political Studies

“Soft Power” Counts for very Little”
October 31 , 2012 Amb Kanwal Sibal
Views: 4004
Much is sometimes made of India’s “soft power” as a diplomatic force multiplier. This kind of power is defined as the ability to attract and co-opt rather than coerce, use force or give money as a mean ...

International Relations and Diplomacy

India Shining? Or India, The Dark Continent?
October 30 , 2012 Dr M N Buch (late)
Views: 3967
The newspaper headlines and electronic media such as NDTV24×7, Times Now, CNN-IBN keeps screaming at us that India is the land of scams, the very fountainhead of corruption. On the one hand are the Indi...

Governance and Political Studies

Tibet in International Law and Practice
October 22 , 2012 Amb Prabhat P Shukla
Views: 4560
“Since Tibet is not the same as China, it should ultimately be the wishes of the people of Tibet that should prevail and not any legal or constitutional arguments. That, I think, is a valid point. Wheth...

China, International Relations and Diplomacy

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