India and New Zealand: Engaging each other in Asia
India and New Zealand have a great opportunity to work together for the economic wellbeing of the Pacific Island nations.
- Rajaram Panda |
- November 25, 2010 |
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India and New Zealand have a great opportunity to work together for the economic wellbeing of the Pacific Island nations.
The question is not whether bilateral co-operation among member-states is a substitute for common European defence.
The review shows a remarkable shift in the strategic thinking of UK from that of the Cold War frame to a more independent contemporary assessment with a focus on non-conventional threats.
The US needs to take direct charge of the peace talks prong of strategy to meet the mid-2011 deadline of beginning its troops withdrawal as well as to enable NATO departure by 2014.
The most important though understated aspect of Obama’s visit to India was the forward movement on almost all facets of defence cooperation.
Japan needs to structurally transform domestic demand by focusing on its service sector – medical services, education, environment, and health.
As long as the sub-conventional deterrence holds, the enunciation of the Cold Start doctrine actually introduces a degree of strategic stability in the region.
In the latest game of one-upmanship, North Korea has up the ante by announcing to the world that there is no stopping its nuclear development programme.
International security analysts must begin a discussion on how reductions in the U.S. defence budget will influence the nature of bilateral security relationships across Asia
The continuing spiral of violence in Karachi signals the slow but gradual melting of a nuclear-armed State controlled by a military allied with global terrorist networks.