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Indian Intelligence: Awaiting Still Its Tryst with Destiny
August 29 , 2010 A K Verma (Member, VIF Advisory Board)
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Indian Intelligence is frequently in the news, often for the wrong reasons. It is a favourite kicking target for a large number of those who compulsively articulate, like the media, political leaders, academics etc. Why should it be so when its stellar contributions to national security have quite often been praised by different Prime Ministers at different times in India’s history? A public acknowledgement of the services rendered is also indicated by the Padma awards, bestowed on Intelligence personnel from time to time.

National Security and Strategic Studies

Asian Security Environment and India’s Options
August 29 , 2010 A K Verma (Member, VIF Advisory Board)
Views: 6492
Asian security environment is in a state of deep turmoil. The single event which has occasioned it is the giant rise of China during the past couple of decades, reaching higher and higher levels of economic and military strength. All neighbors of China including those further afield, are engaged in working out strategies to cope with China should it turn into a rogue state sometime in future.

International Relations and Diplomacy

FLOODS: PAKISTAN BRACING FOR THE FALLOUT
August 28 , 2010 Sushant Sareen
Views: 2733
Intimations of mortality of an incumbent regime, especially a civilian government, are nothing new for Pakistan. But doomsday scenarios about the imminent demise of the not just the political system but also the State have never been peddled as furiously and with as much conviction as they are being today, over the internet, on TV channels and in newspaper columns.

Pakistan

QUICKEN THE PACE OF TIES WITH JAPAN
August 24 , 2010 Amb Kanwal Sibal
Views: 3696
The conclusion on August 21 of the fourth round of the India-Japan strategic dialogue at Foreign Minister level provides the peg to assess the current state of India-Japan relations. These relations are headed in the right direction, but it has taken time to change their compass and the pace has been tardy. Some of the factors that explain the past aloofness account for the current rapprochement.

International Relations and Diplomacy

The Pentagon Report and China’s Response
August 24 , 2010 Debasish Chaudhuri
Views: 22756
The release of Pentagon Report on China’s defense capability and its subsequent response from the PRC has become an annual ritual since year 2000. According to the National Defense Authorization Act of 2000, the Pentagon decided to publish such report for the first two decades of 21st century. For some unspecified reasons this year’s report titled Military and Security Developments Involving the People’s Republic of China 2010 was published about five months after the usual timing.

China, International Relations and Diplomacy

China’s Stake over Sea
August 18 , 2010 Debasish Chaudhuri
Views: 2611
America’s decision of changing the venue of joint military maneuver with South Korea in Japan Sea last month in the face of Chinese pressure indicates the limit of balance-of-power dynamics practiced so far by the US and China. Does the reversal of an earlier plan of conducting joint military exercise in the Yellow Sea mark the decline of US dominance and permanency of Chinese strong hold in the region? Patterns of interaction between America and China are fabulously multidimensional and symbiotic.

China, International Relations and Diplomacy

KARACHI AS A METAPHOR FOR THE COMING ANARCHY IN PAKISTAN
August 13 , 2010 Sushant Sareen
Views: 6068
Pakistan’s commercial capital, Karachi, is no stranger to politically motivated violence. Since the mid 1980’s, when the MQM erupted on the political firmament of Karachi, political violence had pretty much come to be accepted as an integral part of the city’s life. But in recent years, the violence has acquired the form of an almost institutionalised anarchy, what with political turf battles and ethnic animosities getting entwined with criminal syndicates, sectarian mafias and Islamic terror groups.

Pakistan

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