Articles in Geopolitics
The deluge: will Pakistan submerge or survive?
By: Col Ajay Singh | Issue: Vol 25.4 Oct-Dec 2010 | Date: 08 Dec , 2010
Nature has a strange way of altering the destiny of men and nations. The great biblical floods gave rise to the Jewish Nation, the terrible famine of Bengal in the 1850s helped provoke the first...
Taiwan's courtship with India-II
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Book Excerpt: Rising India | Date: 07 Dec , 2010
Major Advantages: First, given the importance of China in Indian foreign policy, Indian policy makers, foreign policy analysts and think tanks must understand Beijing well. This is particularly...
The myths exposed by Wikileaks
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Dec , 2010
The confidential cables exchanged between the US State Department and the US diplomatic missions abroad, which have been released by WikiLeaks, expose the following five myths: Firstly, the myth...
Taiwan's courtship with India-I
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Book Excerpt: Rising India | Date: 06 Dec , 2010
Ever since the communists under the late Mao Tse-tung forced the then Chinese President Chiang Kai-shek in 1949 to flee to Taiwan, the situation across the Taiwan straits that separate Mainland...
Zardari in Sri Lanka: Counter-Balancing India
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Dec , 2010
President Asif Ali Zardari of Pakistan visited Sri Lanka from November 27 to 30, 2010, at the invitation of President Mahinda Rajapaksa. Among those who accompanied him were Shah Mehmood...
The Fall of the Dragon
By: Ashish Puntambekar | Issue: Vol 23.1 Jan-Mar 2008 | Date: 06 Dec , 2010
Why should developments in the American housing / subprime market in 2007 and currently continuing into 2008 be of any interest to the defense analyst ? Well … probably it’s because what’s...
Time to stop appeasing China
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Dec , 2010
The Government of India has not yet indicated its response to the reported pressure from the Chinese Government to boycott the Nobel Peace Prize Award function proposed to be held at Oslo on...
The internal political situation in China
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 Dec , 2010
An editorial published on October 15, 2010, by the Communist Party controlled “Global Times” said:“China has changed a lot. In the future it will continue to adopt gradualism to bring about...
WikiLeaks and India
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Dec , 2010
WikiLeaks has done it again. The whistle-blowing website has just published hundreds of thousands of confidential State Department cables. These communications apparently reveal the details of...
Wikileaks: The Chinese Shiver
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 Dec , 2010
The Chinese authorities have told their people of the tsunami of documents of the US Government being flooded into the public domain by WikiLeaks. They are surprised that the US Government has...
Wikileaks: Implications of Leakage of US Diplomatic Cables
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 Nov , 2010
The leakage by WikiLeaks of over 200,000 diplomatic cables exchanged between the US State Department and its diplomatic missions abroad could have serious implications for US diplomacy and for...
Wikileaks: Intelligence of Interest to India
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 Nov , 2010
Wikileaks has claimed to have received from its source 251,287 documents, which are mainly diplomatic cables of a classification lower than “Top Secret” exchanged between the US State Department...
An Analysis of China's White Papers on Defense
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Vol 24.2 Apr-Jun 2009 | Date: 28 Nov , 2010
Have you ever heard of the term ‘Informationization’? The word is used 48 times in the new White Paper (WP) on Defense1 published by The Information Office of State Council of the People’s...
Prospects for Democratization in Myanmar: Impact on India
By: David I Steinberg | Issue: Vol 24.4 Oct-Dec 2009 | Date: 27 Nov , 2010
According to the military junta that rules Myanmar,1 the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) is on the cusp of the completion in 2010 of its self-ordained “roadmap” to a form of...
The Madhesis of Nepal
By: K Yhome | Issue: Vol 22.3 Jul-Sep 2007 | Date: 26 Nov , 2010
Dramatic events in the past one year since the 2006 “April Revolution” in Nepal have been redefining the political landscape of the Himalayan nation in more ways than one. One important...
Pakistan: The Anti-India Identity
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Vol. 23.4 Oct-Dec 2008 | Date: 25 Nov , 2010
Jinnah’s full encouragement to the vicious anti-Hindu rhetoric in the campaign for Pakistan raises serious doubts about his much -touted stature as a visionary. More importantly, it reveals a...
Nepal Policy A Monumental Blunder?
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Vol 22.2 Apr-Jun 2007 | Date: 24 Nov , 2010
Any dispassionate analysis of the current situation in Nepal will deal with some uncomfortable questions. It seems that the Indian government has not dealt with these questions properly. By...
Continuing North Korean threat to regional peace & stability
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 Nov , 2010
The continuing North Korean threat to regional peace and stability has again been demonstrated by its surprise artillery attack on the Yeonpyeong island under South Korean control on November...
Limitations of Russia-India-China triangle
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 Nov , 2010
Foreign Ministers of Russia, India and China (RIC) on Nov 15 held their 10th trilateral at the Chinese city Wuhan to discuss a host of regional and international issues like counter-terrorism,...
China: Friend or Foe?
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Vol 22.4 Oct-Dec 2007 | Date: 24 Nov , 2010
Year 2008 will be a special year. It is a leap year and for the first time in modern history, China will organize the Olympic Games. One remembers that in ancient Greece, this was a time for...