Pax Indica “Nitin Pai,” writes Amit Varma, “known for his sharp analysis of foreign affairs, will set out every alternate Tuesday to demystify international relations for you in a column named Pax Indica. Rather than just comment from on high about current affairs, he will explain the different schools of thought in the field, and ...
…they stopped short of coming to blows So much have we become accustomed to Dr Manmohan Singh delivering lollipops to his Pakistani ‘counterpart’ at sidelines of multilateral meetings that this time, in Thimphu, when all he agreed was that “the show must go on”, a surreptitious sigh of relief is excusable. After the meeting, Foreign ...
Why the discourse over nuclear arms controls needs to start with objectivity Over at the New York Times Opinionator, Robert Wright gives you a timesaving preview of his deep thoughts before Armageddon. The NPT review conference next month will amount to nothing because, essentially, because “change is impossible when lots of those 189 nations are ...
China signals that its nuclear support to Pakistan is about weapons Mark Hibbs has news on the two new nuclear reactors that China is selling to Pakistan in blatant violation of its non-proliferation commitments: Chinese officials said last month that export of the reactors to Pakistan would be justified in consideration of political developments in ...
Looks like it There is much in Vikram Pandit’s speech that The Acorn agrees with: Mr. Pandit argued that the world could create healthy and sustainable economic growth through completely open trade markets, flexible exchange rates, open capital markets and free labor markets. “If this were the case, these imbalances would be corrected rather quickly, ...
Perspectives on cyber strategy Srijith K Nair joins us on INI, with Vyuha where he: aims to explore the cyber security strategies (and to a lesser extent, the overarching information security aspects) that are of paramount importance to India in this networked 21st century and beyond.? Towards this end we will be covering important events ...
Quite likely, the same people who perverted the investigation The UN investigative commission enquiring into the Benazir Bhutto assassination has—given the context—shown some cojones. Not only did it put into writing what the United States likes to hide under a rug of diplomatese, it also refused the allow the Pakistani government to bury the report ...
Allow greater foreign direct investment in the defence industry Takshashila’s policy research programme has its first output—Sushant K Singh, Fellow for Defence Policy at Takshashila and an editor of Pragati has written a discussion document calling for raising or removing the caps on foreign equity in India’s defence industry. Get the paper here. You are ...
…is not as much against India as it is against Iran (by proxy) That old canard is being repeated again. Pakistan, we are told, is cranking up a fissile material because “because India has the power to mount a lightning invasion with conventional forces” and that the India-US nuclear deal “frees up older facilities that ...
The cover feature of this month’s issue is a short update on India’s scientific research activities in the Antarctic and the Arctic: India has recently inaugurated new stations on both ends of the earth. This month we cover several issues concerning domestic politics and internal security — out-governing the Naxalites; institutionalising the positive trend in ...