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The Law is Not An Ass – Only People Are
December 12 , 2011 Dr M N Buch (late)
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There is a monumentally asinine serial called “The Bold and the Beautiful” which has been shown on the television for several years now. Each time an episode ends one feels that we shall now be spared ...

Governance and Political Studies

CRUNCHTIME PAKISTAN
December 9 , 2011 Sushant Sareen
Views: 3405
The already strained US-Pakistan relations appear to have gone into almost a freefall after NATO gunships fired on two Pakistan army posts along the Pak-Afghan border in the Mohmand Tribal agency killin...

Pakistan, Neighbourhood Studies

DANGEROUS LIASIONS : Pakistan-China nexus poses strategic threat to India
December 9 , 2011 Amb Kanwal Sibal
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It is more practical to limit the review of India’s security mainly to the classic concept of a nations’s security, not its extended definition given today that includes energy, food, water etc. With t...

China, International Relations and Diplomacy

Is Democracy another Word For Anarchy?
December 7 , 2011 Radhakrishna Rao
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‘Demos’ in Greek means the people, which is why democracy means the rule of the people. Autocracy means the rule of ruling elite, monarchy means the rule of a sovereign and mobocracy means mob rule, i....

Governance and Political Studies

Non-Traditional Threats: An Analytical Perspective from South Asia
December 1 , 2011 Brig Vinod Anand, Senior Fellow, VIF
Views: 4202
Non-Traditional Security (NTS), and threats to NTS, have gained much greater visibility. While NTS threats definitely qualify as a major component of security research, the scope of the term, and conseq...

National Security and Strategic Studies, Indo-Pacific

China Aims for Global Space Leadership
November 25 , 2011 Radhakrishna Rao
Views: 3464
For China, which joined the global space league in a modest way with a launch of a lightweight satellite in 1970, the year 2011 is all set to stand out as both “eventful and exciting”. Indeed, for this ...

China, International Relations and Diplomacy

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