IDSA Comments

Karuna’s revelation that Norway provided funds for the LTTE to purchase lethal weapons has revived the focus on that country’s role in the Sri Lankan ethnic conflict.

• Hemantha Dayaratne
• February 03, 2011
• IDSA Comments

The NSCN (IM) leadership's acceptance of Indian passports reflects a significant shift from its earlier political posture of an independent sovereign Naga homeland.

• Namrata Goswami
• February 02, 2011
• IDSA Comments

The paralysis at the Conference on Disarmament (CD) captures the state of affairs that has bedevilled the field of arms control/disarmament during the last 10 years.

• S. Samuel C. Rajiv
• February 02, 2011
• IDSA Comments

India needs to engage countries in the region to ensure that the transition process in Afghanistan does not threaten regional stability.

• Smruti S. Pattanaik
• January 28, 2011
• IDSA Comments

Primarily because of the uncertainties surrounding US-China relations, the Hu-Obama summit ended in a stalemate with both leaders agreeing to disagree on important matters.

• Avinash Godbole
• January 27, 2011
• IDSA Comments

President Yudhoyono’s visit is likely to take the strategic partnership to the next level.

• Pankaj K Jha
• January 24, 2011
• IDSA Comments

How India and Indonesia look at each other, the region and the world at large will determine the course of their relationship in coming years.

• Sudhir T. Devare
• January 20, 2011
• IDSA Comments

Like in the space arena, India has the capability to offer its expertise to other countries in the field of nuclear power and non-nuclear applications.

• Arvind Gupta , Ch. Viyyanna Sastry
• January 20, 2011
• IDSA Comments

Gates has steered Japan and South Korea towards aligning their shared threat perceptions about North Korea and China.

• Preeti Nalwa
• January 18, 2011
• IDSA Comments

By concentrating only on the inequities of the blasphemy law, Pakistani ‘moderates’ and commentators elsewhere are missing the point that the real battle is against radical Islamic thought.

• Sushant Sareen
• January 17, 2011
• IDSA Comments