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Avoiding the Fall; Michael Pettis; Carnegie Endowment 2013; PP 157; Price Rs 1238 & The Great Rebalancing; Michael Pettis; Princeton University Press 2013; PP 219; Price Rs 1859
Amb Prabhat P Shukla

It makes sense to review the two books together and not just because they are written by the same author, and within a short period of each other [both were written in 2013]. The more compelling reason for doing so is that they deal with the same phe....

April 07, 2014 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Chinese economy , GDP growth , Book Reviews , Global Economy
Talk by French Ambassador to India HE Francois Richier

In his interaction with the VIF faculty on March 26, Ambassador of France to India H E Francois Richier began by identifying the similarities between India and France – above all, the commitment to maintaining strategic autonomy. This did not mean ....

April 07, 2014 International Relations and Diplomacy , Interaction , Counter-terrorism , defence cooperation , France , Civil nuclear cooperation
International Terrorism Post 9/11: Emerging Trends and Global Response
Rohit Singh

Introduction September 11, 2001 was a watershed in the manner in which the world acknowledged and responded to terrorism. The monstrosity of the multiple attacks which killed nearly 3,000 people in one planned strike brought universal conde....

April 04, 2014 International Relations and Diplomacy , Pakistan , Terrorism , Al Qaeda , Global War on Terrorism , 26/11 attacks , 9/11 attacks
The Musharraf Case: Will Anyone Agree to Take The Fall for him?
Sushant Sareen

Even though Gen Pervez Musharraf has finally been indicted on five charges of treason by the Special Court constituted to try him, the widespread feeling within Pakistan and beyond is that this is probably as far as the civilian government could go a....

April 03, 2014 Neighbourhood Studies , Pakistan
The Third Front in Indian Politics: An Assessment
K G Suresh

Introduction One of the significant developments in the country’s fast changing political scenario has been the rather premature demise of the much hyped 11 party Third Front. After the Jayalalithaa-led AIADMK dumped the alliance with the....

April 02, 2014 Governance and Political Studies
China’s Rising Defence Expenditure and Implications for India
Brig Gurmeet Kanwal

While India’s interim defence budget for the financial year (FY) 2014-15 has remained stagnant in terms of the Rupee-Dollar exchange rate and inflation, the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) of China has been given a 12.2 per cent increase over the ....

April 01, 2014 International Relations and Diplomacy , China
Time to Restore Civility in Political Debate
Dr M N Buch (late)

For us Indians there are certain truths which we should take as immutable. The Constitution of India, the basic features of which have remained unchanged despite a number of amendments, is the document which prescribes how this country will be struc....

April 01, 2014 Governance and Political Studies
Interaction with Students from North East India

An interaction was held with select students from the country’s North East region residing in Delhi, on 28 Feb 2014. The aim of the interaction was to reassure people from the region about their security in the wake of some recent untoward incid....

March 29, 2014 North-East Insurgency , National Security and Strategic Studies , Interaction , North East India
Modi and India’s Foreign Policy: A Preview
Amb Kanwal Sibal

Little interest has been shown domestically about possible new orientations in foreign policy under a Narendra Modi-led NDA government. Modi’s single-minded focus on the development agenda has dominated political and media discourse, barring, of co....

March 28, 2014 International Relations and Diplomacy , China
Pak Peace Talks With Taliban: Is There A Method in Madness?
Sushant Sareen

The more you think about it, the more it confounds: Pakistan government’s peace dialogue with the Taliban. Look at it from a logical, if also conventional, standpoint, and it appears as though the Pakistani state has entered into a desultory dialog....

March 25, 2014 Neighbourhood Studies , Pakistan
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