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Be Pragmatic About N-Power
April 26 , 2011 Amb Kanwal Sibal
Views: 3809
Nuclear power producers have always had anxiety that a major nuclear accident anywhere in the world will deliver a crippling blow to the industry as a whole. Because of this collective interest, nuclear...

Indo-Pacific

With Due Respect - India has every right to disagree with the West on Libya
April 21 , 2011 Amb Kanwal Sibal
Views: 6655
Mass uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt have evicted autocrats ruling for two or three decades. Libya, sandwiched between these countries and under a dictator’s yoke for over four decades, could hardly have...

Africa

The Necessity of Reinventing a Shared Cultural Past–India and Southeast Asia
April 20 , 2011 Dr Anirban Ganguly
Views: 26246
[The story of India’s two thousand years old association with the Southeast Asian region remains a unique and unparalleled saga in the history of civilisations. It is a fascinating story that continues ...

Historical and Civilisational Studies

No Reason For India To Align With West On Its Pet Causes
April 14 , 2011 Amb Kanwal Sibal
Views: 3636
We should be politically clear-sighted about our supposed “international obligations” as a rising global power. We are accused at times of being “free-loaders” who benefit from the global system without...

International Relations and Diplomacy

Analysis of Japan’s Natural Disaster
April 12 , 2011 Dr Vikash Ranjan
Views: 3648
The triple crisis which hit Japan on March 11 and subsequently, has led to a trail of devastation in its wake. Weeks after the crisis the death toll has crossed 12,000 counts, with 15,500 people still m...

Indo-Pacific

Defending China: PRC’s Defence White Paper 2010 and Military Transparency
April 11 , 2011 Brig Vinod Anand, Senior Fellow, VIF
Views: 3174
As part of its effort towards bringing in more transparency in military affairs People’s Republic of China has been regularly churning out its white papers on national defence since 1998. Progress...

China, International Relations and Diplomacy

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