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Japan’s National Defense Policy Guidelines for the New Decade
January 11 , 2011 Dr Vikash Ranjan
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The changes in a nation’s threat perception define the need for new defense policy guidelines. Based on this premise, Japan’s new National Defense Policy Guidelines (NDPG) 2010, shows a marked shift i...

Indo-Pacific

India and East Asia in 2010
January 11 , 2011 Prof. G V C Naidu
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2010 marks two decades of India’s engagement with East Asia in the current phase under the rubric the Look East policy that was launched in 1990. It came about in the wake of the end of the cold war, on...

Indo-Pacific

India-China Relations: A Year-end Review
January 11 , 2011 Sujitt Dutta
Views: 3061
India-China relations have been going through a rough phase for some time now. In fact, over the past year they have become even more complex than they normally have been over the past five decades as a...

China, International Relations and Diplomacy

Best Wishes - India should build on the gains from the recent P5 visits
January 9 , 2011 Amb Kanwal Sibal
Views: 4131
Much has been made of the fact that leaders of all the permanent five member countries of the United Nations security council have visited India in 2010 in quick succession. This degree of bilateral att...

International Relations and Diplomacy

On the right track
January 9 , 2011 Amb Kanwal Sibal
Views: 4250
President Dmitry Medvedev’s recent visit to India has given fresh lustre to a relationship that had begun to lose its sheen. Indian political and economic circles, as well as the media, have been too ob...

International Relations and Diplomacy

Shaky Hand at Mars External Drive
January 3 , 2011 Amb Kanwal Sibal
Views: 4792
India’s core foreign policy challenges in 2011 will be no different than in 2010, but we enter the New Year with a somewhat strengthened diplomatic hand. Coincidentally, leaders of all P-5 countries vis...

International Relations and Diplomacy

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