Articles in Geopolitics
Indo-Pak Nuclear Talks
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Vol. 27.2 Apr-Jun 2012 | Date: 06 Sep , 2012
Despite concerted efforts at Confidence-Building Measures (CBMs) and several rounds of talks to improve relations between India and Pakistan, there has not been appreciable progress. The nuclear...
Hate content against Hindus, Sikhs, Christians in Pak textbooks increases...
By: admin | Date: 05 Sep , 2012
Emerging Asian Security Environment
By: Kanwal Sibal | Issue: Vol 24.1 Jan-Mar 2009 | Date: 05 Sep , 2012
To address the security challenges that Asia faces, the question needs to be asked whether any coherent concept of Asian security exists. Is Asia an integrated geographical entity, are its...
War against Lashkar-e-Taiba
By: Maj Gen Afsir Karim | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 04 Sep , 2012
If Pakistan does not take strong measures against the fundamentalist forces and terror groups and their influence and power grows, it may lead to the collapse of the state. Presently, Pakistan...
The New Great Game
By: Col Harjeet Singh | Issue: Vol 24.2 Apr-Jun 2009 | Date: 01 Sep , 2012
The “Great Game” was a term prevalent in the 19th century, for the strategic rivalry and conflict between the British Empire and the Russian Empire for supremacy in Central Asia. It...
Is it time to 'junk' NAM?
By: Kanwal Sibal | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Aug , 2012
The NAM Summit in Teheran (August 26 to 31) provides an occasion for some general reflections on the movement, its salience today and India’s role in it. For those who have always decried the...
China: a new kind of superpower in the making
By: Bhaskar Roy | Issue: Vol 25.4 Oct-Dec 2010 | Date: 28 Aug , 2012
“The USA can defend its close allies in the Asia-Pacific region. But India cannot depend on the USA to bail it out. Washington has its complex foreign policy objectives whether correct or...
India's options in Afghanistan - The Iran factor
By: Aditi Malhotra | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Aug , 2012
While The WikiLeaks “revelation” has not uncovered anything radically new, it has highlighted the prevailing intricacies and complexities of the conflict. Pakistan’s “offer” of...
Indian sailors and FBI bring to justice high ranking Somali pirates
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 Aug , 2012
Mohammad Saaili Shibin, the Somali pirate responsible for negotiating the ransom of Indian seafarers and other seafarers and the sea vessels S/V Quest and M/V Marida Marguerite, was sentenced in...
India’s Foreign Policy: Right Choice of Friends
By: Kanwal Sibal | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Aug , 2012
A new debate has started on the nature of a redefined Indian foreign policy that takes into account the country’s transformed relations with the United States of America. The latter is openly...
Dealing with Pakistan
By: Lt Gen HC Dutta | Issue: Vol 24.1 Jan-Mar 2009 | Date: 22 Aug , 2012
The terror attacks of 26/11 on Mumbai have left the nation traumatized. People are angry and confused and are awestruck by the sheer audacity and ferocity of a commando type raid at the very heart...
The Chinese are coming!
By: Lt Gen JFR Jacob | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Aug , 2012
The Dragon has emerged from its lair with a vengeance. A senior Indian army officer was denied an official Chinese visa on the grounds that he was commanding in Jammu and Kashmir, a disputed...