IDSA Comments - MP-IDSA

Power, Interdependence and China’s Rare Earth Moment

The conflict over rare earths is not only a consequence of the monopoly amassed by China but is also reflective of the current flux in global power hierarchies.

Yogesh Joshi |
December 28, 2010 |
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Examining the Maoist Resurgence in Andhra

The Maoists are trying to cash in on major issues like Telangana to expand their mass base in Andhra from where hail their top leadership.

Uddipan Mukherjee |
December 28, 2010 |
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ISRO cannot afford failures

ISRO needs to conduct a thorough enquiry particularly because failure in a time-tested and launch proven “stage one technology” is undesirable.

Ajey Lele |
December 28, 2010 |
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Enclaves and Adverse Possessions: Time to deliver on the promise

With a friendly dispensation in Dhaka, it is an opportune moment for India to deliver on its promise to exchange the enclaves and surrender adverse possessions.

Pushpita Das |
December 27, 2010 |
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Japan’s Revised Defence Guidelines: Proactive Dynamism Pervades “Reluctant Realism”

Would China’s strategic error in inviting Japanese hostility place more blocks to its rise as an unchallenged regional power or would it be able to override the Japanese threat in ample measure by altering its strategic game and finding a meeting ground with the United States?

Preeti Nalwa |
December 27, 2010 |
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Sino-Indian Relations

China has all along been testing the limits of India’s tolerance and restraint and has once again given the Indian foreign ministry much home work for the next few months.

Ramesh Phadke |
December 27, 2010 |
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Naoto Kan’s Remarks strain Relations with South Korea

Kan’s statement about sending the SDF to the Korean peninsula to rescue Japanese citizens and people of Japanese origin in the event of an emergency has raised the spectre of a possible revival of Japanese militarism.

Rajaram Panda |
December 20, 2010 |
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China threat propels a new defence thinking in Japan

Japan’s adoption of a new defence Guidelines to secure its southern “outlaying islands” closer to China suggests major shift in Japan’s Cold War security policy.