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Shaky Hand at Mars External Drive
January 3 , 2011 Amb Kanwal Sibal
Views: 5168
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

India Right in Standing Up to China's Bullying
December 29 , 2010 Amb Kanwal Sibal
Views: 3288
China has been strikingly inept in its international diplomacy over the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to the Chinese dissident Lui Xiaobo. China’s global stature today is formidable. Its economic growt...

China, International Relations and Diplomacy

Little for India on Chinese Platter
December 29 , 2010 Amb Kanwal Sibal
Views: 3735
Chinese PM Wen Jiabao’s visit has hardly done much to allay India’s fears about its hostile, powerful neighbour

China, International Relations and Diplomacy

2010: India's undeclared year of Africa
December 29 , 2010 Amb Rajiv Bhatia
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An objective evaluation of changing contours of our engagement with Africa, especially in light of significant developments in 2010, might interest Africa watchers and others. Conceptual richness and co...

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A Game Theory For Pakistani Politics
December 24 , 2010 Sushant Sareen
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With the exit from the government of the Maulana Fazlur Rehman led faction of the Jamiat Ulema Islam (JUIF), the perpetually buffeted – by an overbearing military, an hyper active and interventionist ju...

Pakistan

A Perspective on Premier Wen’s Visit: No Material Change in Sino-Indian Equation
December 20 , 2010 Arun Sahgal Brig Vinod Anand, Senior Fellow, VIF
Views: 3643
Behind the usual bonhomie exhibited after the issue of joint communiqué by India and China post Prime Minister Wen Jia Bao's visit basic issue that needs to be addressed is what are the major take aw...

China, International Relations and Diplomacy

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