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Jan-Mar 2006

Indo-US Strategic Partnership

 

K. SUBRAHMANYAM

Partnership, Not an Alliance

BHARAT KARNAD

Nuclear Deal: Partnership or Subordination

DILIP LAHIRI

Sell-out of India’s Independent Foreign Policy?

SIDDHARTH VARADARAJAN

Losing Sight of the Big Picture

ARUNDHATI GHOSH

India and Non-Proliferation Regime: Consistency or Change?

AMIT GUPTA

India’s Soft Power 

GIRIJESH PANT

Energy Security and the Indian Foreign Policy 

SATINDER K. LAMBAH

India at United Nations Talks on Afghanistan (Bonn, 27 November - 5 December 2001) 

G. V. C. NAIDU

India and the Asia-Pacific: The Look East Policy

 

 

ASSOCIATION OF INDIAN DIPLOMATS

Streamlining Economic Diplomacy: A Ten-Point Plan

I.K. GUJRAL

India’s Response to the Soviet Military Intervention in Afghanistan (1979-80)

SHEBONTI RAY DADWAL

India’s Energy Security: Prospects for Cooperation with Extended Neighbourhood by S. D. Muni and Girijesh Pant  

S. D. MUNI

A Clash of Political Cultures: Sino-Indian Relations (1957-62) by Sudershan Bhutani 

SANJAY BHARADWAJ

Indian Foreign Service: History and Challenge by J. N. Dixit

Apr-Jun 2006

Indo-Pak Composite Dialogue

 

V.P.MALIK

Desirable, but Prone to Derailment

SATISH CHANDRA

Involvement with Sincerity Required

NIRMALA DESHPANDE

From Confrontation to Conciliation

KALIM BAHADUR 

No Quick-Fix Solutions

ABDUL NAFEY

Trilateral Commission of IBSA Dialogue Forum: Imperatives and Opportunities for India

D.C.  PATHAK

Diplomacy and Intelligence

SUDHA RAMACHANDRAN

Engaging Myanmar’s Generals: Advantage India?

PURNENDRA JAIN

A Balancing Act: Japan’s Asia Challenge and India

NAGESH KUMAR

India and the Asian Economic Community:

 Relevance, Approaches and Prospects for Pan-Asian Integration

 

 

 

GURBACHAN SINGH

India at the Rabat Islamic Summit (1969)

 

V.S. SHETH

Engaging with the World: Critical Reflections on India’s Foreign Policy by Rajen Harshe and K. M. Seethi

SITAKANTA MISHRA

Second Strike: Arguments About Nuclear War in South Asia by Rajesh Rajagopalan

RAMASUBRAMANIAN RAKKAPPAN

The Shadow of the Great Game: The Untold Story of India’s Partition by Narendra Singh Sarila

SAMIR RANJAN PRADHAN

India’s Energy Security and the Arabian Gulf by Javed Ahmad Khan

Jul-Sep 2006

Responding to a Rising China

 

C.V. RANGANATHAN

India and a Rising China

JASJIT SINGH

The Shifting Balance of Military Power in Asia

MOHAN GURUSWAMY

Closing Economic Gap

SUJIT DUTTA

Be Ready to Deal with Negative Imperatives

DEB MUKHARJI

A Perspective on Indo-Nepal Relations

KRIPA SRIDHARAN

Facets of a Maturing Relationship: India and Southeast Asia

RAJESH M. BASRUR

Minimum Deterrence: Fundamentals and Policy Implications

P.R. KUMARASWAMY

India-Israel Relations: Quo Vadis?

D. SUBA CHANDRAN

Pakistan’s Endgame in Kashmir: India’s Options

 

 

 

K.S. BAJPAI

The Evolution of the Indian Foreign Service Establishment

JAGAT S. MEHTA

Nepal: Diplomacy between Unequal Neighbours in Our Times

GURMEET KANWAL

Kargil: From Surprise to Victory by General V.P. Malik

SUJATA ASHWARYA CHEEMA

India’s Foreign policy in the 21st Century by V.D. Chopra and Indian Foreign Policy: Continuity and Emergin

KHRIEZODILHOU YHOME

India’s World: Essays on Foreign Policy and Security Issues by Mohan Guruswamy

AJAYA KUMAR DAS

Impossible Allies: Nuclear India, United States and the Global Order by C. Raja Mohan

Oct-Dec 2006

India and the World Trade Organisation (WTO)

 

MANOJ PANT

Time to Identify Offensive Interests

VANDANA SHIVA

WTO and Agrarian Crisis in India

T.P. BHAT

Shaping Agriculture Agenda

RAJIV KUMAR

India and the Doha Round: The Way Forward

ABID HUSSAIN

Economic Diplomacy and its Significance for Foreign Policy

ERIC GONSALVES

India and the United Nations Reform

YESHI CHOEDON

India and the Current Concerns of UN Peacekeeping: Issues and Prospects

CHINTAMANI MAHAPATRA

The Muslim Factor in Indo-US Relations

NIRANJAN DESAI

India and its Diaspora

 

 

 

BRAJESH MISHRA

“Mao’s Smile” Revisited: Sino-Indian Relations During an Important Period

 

PAUL SOREN

The Maoist Insurgency and Nepal-India Relations, eds., by Shiva K. Dhungana
BERYL ANAND

A Call to Honour: In Service of Emergent India by Jaswant Singh

VENKATESH LOKANATHAN

US-Indian Strategic Cooperation into the 21st Century: More than Words, eds., by Sumit Ganguly et.al.

P.C. MATHUR

Globlisation, Democracy and Government in South Asia: Issues and Alternatives,eds., by Krishan Gopal et al.

Jan-Mar 2007

India’s Neighbourhood Policy

G.PARTHASARATHY

Challenges and Opportunities
C. RAJA MOHAN

India’s Neighbourhood Policy: Four Dimensions

RADHA KUMAR

Should We Have a Neighbourhood Policy?

C. UDAY BHASKAR

More Positive Now than Ever Before

JORGE HEINE

From the Southern Cone to South Asia: Growing Links between Chile and India

GULSHAN SACHDEVA

India and the EU: Boosting Relations through CECA

IMTIAZ AHMED

Bangladesh and India: In the Context of SAARC and the Emerging Global Scenario

SRIKANTH KONDAPALLI

Policy Perspectives on India-China Interaction

MATHEW JOSEPH C.

India – Bhutan Relations: An Overview

 

 

 

LAKHAN MEHROTRA

Engaging China: The Call of History

 

KALARICKAL PRANCHU FABIAN

India, Europe and the Changing Dimensions of   Security edited by Rajendra K Jain and Hartmut Elsenhas

ANURADHA MUNI

India & Southeast Asia: Towards Security Convergence by Sudhir Devare

DURYODHAN NAHAK

Under the Empire: India’s New Foreign Policy by Ninan Koshy

BANSIDHAR PRADHAN

Asian Juggernaut: The Rise of China, India and Japan by Brahma Chellaney

April - June 2007

India’s Look East Policy

 

RAJIV SIKRI

Challenges Ahead

AMITA BATRA

A Credible Economic Player

P.S. DAS

Looking East Strategically

A.N. RAM

Economic, Strategic and Civilisational Convergence

WALTER ANDERSEN

US and India: Domestic Political Compulsions for a Consequential American Interest

YOGESH M. TIWARI

Indo-US Nuclear Deal: An Analysis

HAMID ANSARI

India and the Contemporary International Norms on Group Rights

PREM K. BUDHWAR

The Indian Foreign Service: Then and Now

D.N. RAINA

India and the Reconstruction of Afghanistan Power Sector

 

 

Dr. A.P.J. ABDUL KALAM

The President of India

"Past Meets the Present and Creates the Future"

Address at the Annual Lecture of the Association on 7 Feb. 2007

 

SHYAM SARAN

Emerging Trends in International Relations and Their Impact on India

ERIC GONSALVES

Resolving the Korean Crisis

 

V.S. SHETH

Global South Asians Introducing the Modern Diaspora by Judith M. Brown

KAMALA KANTA DASH

Australia and India, Interconnections: Identity, Representation and Belonging edited by Santosh K. Sareen  

SHELLY JOHNY

Emerging India: Security and Foreign Policy Perspectives edited by N.S. Sisodia and C. Uday Bhaskar

VIJAYA DIXIT

Negotiating for India: Resolving Problems through Diplomacy by Jagat S. Mehta

July - Sep 2007

Indo-Russian Strategic Partnership

 

SATINDER K. LAMBAH

In a New Context

DHARAM VIR

Address Economic Stagnation

S. KRISHNASWAMY

Need to Remove Constraints
RAM RATTAN SHARMA

The Emerging Challenges

RAJIV WIJESINHA

India and the Settlement of the Sri Lankan Crisis

SUDARSHAN BHUTANI

India-Australia Relations in the 1980s

G.S. IYER

Revamping the Foreign Service of India

SURANJAN DAS & SHANTANU CHAKRABARTI

India and Bhutan: The Case of a Symbiotic Relationship?

AMITENDU PALIT

Outward Investment from India: Features and Drivers

 

K.N. BAKSHI

Simla Agreement (1972): From Military Victory to A Diplomatic Defeat?

RAJPAL BUDANIA

Prospects for Peace in South Asia, eds., by Rafiq Dossani and Henry S. Rower

SIMA BAIDYA

Struggle for Sphere of Interest in Trans-Caucasia-Central Asia and India’s Stakes: An Appraisal of India’s Central Asia Policy by Sheel K. Asopa

SMITA

The India-Pakistan Conflict: An Enduring Rivalry, ed., by T.V. Paul

MONIKA CHANSORIA

A Military History of India and South Asia: From the East India Company to the Nuclear Era, eds., by Daniel P. Marston and Chandar S. Sundaram

 

 

Oct - Dec 2007

Indo-EU Strategic Partnership

 

RAJENDRA K. JAIN

Engaging the Economic Superpower

ALEXANDER SPACHIS

From Traditional Areas to New Fields of Cooperation

RAJENDRA M. ABHYANKAR

From Non-Associable to Strategic Partner

ALOK RASHMI MUKHOPADHYAY

Need for Multiple Bridges

 

 

KRISHNAN SRINIVASAN

Rethinking India's Leadership Role in the Commonwealth

KALIM BAHADUR

India's Pakistan Policy

V.S. SHETH

Security and Development Issues in African and Indian Foreign Policies: An Overview

ALOK BANSAL

Turmoil in Gilgit-Baltistan: Implications for India

VIJAYA KATTI

India and the Regional Economic Integration in South Asia

 

J.R. HIREMATH

Bhutan: A Fantastic People with a Wonderful King

BALMIKI PRASAD SINGH

India-Pakistan Negotiations: Is Past Still Prologue? by Dennis Kux

STUTI BANERJEE

India and the United States: From Estrangement to Engagement by Narottam Gaan

PRASANTA KUMAR PRADHAN

Contemporary Saudi Arabia and the Emerging Indo-Saudi Relations, eds., by Gulshan Dietl, Girijesh Pant, A.K. Pasha and Prakash C. Jain

Jan - March 2008

India’s Energy Security: The External Dimension

 

ISHRAT AZIZ

Gulf is Dependable

M.R. SRINIVASAN

Nuclear Power in India’s Energy Mix

SHEBONTI RAY DADWAL

Evaluating the Overseas Assets

SUDHA MAHALINGAM

Four Major External Planks

S. NIHAL SINGH

Emerging Frontiers of India’s Foreign Policy

PARAMJIT S. SAHAI

Identity and Globalisation: Imperatives for India

JOHN CHERIAN

India’s Foreign Policy Shift: From NAM to “Strategic Partnership” with the US

KISHAN S RANA

Role of Diplomacy in Managing the Movement of People

P.R. KUMARASWAMY

Conflicting Dimensions of India’s Iran Policy

 

 

 

MIRA SINHA BHATTACHARGEE

Indians in China: The Most Honoured Guests

S. SAMUEL C. RAJIV

India: The Next Global Superpower?, ed. by Namita Bhandare

JAYA DIXIT

Foreign Policy of India by Subhash Shukla

SAMEER SURYAKANT PATIL

India and the United States: Politics of the Sixties by Kalyani Shankar

GARIMA DAS

India and Pakistan: Pathways Ahead, eds. by Amitabh Mattoo, Kapil Kak and Happymon Jacob

April - June 2008

India’s Diaspora Policy

 

J.C. SHARMA

Poised to Play an Important Role

AJAY DUBEY

Comparative Understanding Needs to be Arrived At

NIRANJAN DESAI

A Coherent Policy Warranted

SHUBHA SINGH

Keep Alive the Ties in an Innovative Way

KANWAL SIBAL

India-Russia Relations: An Analysis

PREM K. BUDHWAR

If Only: A Review of Six Decades of India’s Foreign Policy

RANJIT GUPTA

The Myanmar Conundrum: The Way Forward for India

PAVAN K. VARMA

Culture as an Instrument of Diplomacy

HARSH V. PANT

Intellectual Poverty of Indian Foreign Policy

 

 

 

VIRENDRA DAYAL

India: The Trendsetter in Humanitarian Intervention

P.R. KUMARASWAMY

The Kao boys of R&AW: Down Memory Lane by B. Raman

ALOK BANSAL

Sri Lanka Misadventure: India’s Military Peace-Keeping Campaign 1987–1990 by Gautam Das and M.K. Gupta-Ray

UDAI BHANU SINGH

India-Myanmar Relations 1886–1948 by Swapna Bhattacharya

KUNJALI MARAKKAR

India-West Asia Relations: Understanding Cultural Interplays, eds., by M.H. Ilias and P.J. Vincent  

July - Sep 2008

Dealing with Maoist Nepal

 

Deb Mukharji

Take India out of Nepal’s Internal Politics

Ajai Sahni

An Awkward Embrace

K.V. Rajan

Extend Constructive Support
Deepak Thapa

Popular Pillar: Only Option

S. NARAYAN
Economic Slowdown in the US and Implications for India

KAVITA A. SHARMA

Internationalisation of Higher Education: An Aspect of India’s Foreign Relations

NAROTTAM GAAN

India and the United States in a Seesaw on the nuclear Partnership
SAMIR RANJAN PRADHAN

Cooperation for Energy Security and Sustainable Development (CESSD) - A South-South Perspective

PUSHPITA DAS

Management of India-China Border Area: A Case Study of Arunachal Pradesh

 

 

 

SEE CHAK MUN
India and Singapore: Close Economic and Strategic Engagement

ARVIND GUPTA

Spotlight on Neighbours: Talks at the IIC, ed., by I.P. Khosla

HAPPYMON JACOB

Bahudha and the Post 9/11 World by Balmiki Prasad Singh

APARAJITA GANGOPADHYAY

Towards Freedom in South Asia: Democratization, Peace and Regional Co-operation, eds., V.A. Pai Panandiker and Rahul Tripathi

ANTARA MITRA

Four Crises and a Peace Process: American Engagement in South Asia by P.R. Chari, Pervaiz Iqbal Cheema, Stephen P. Cohen

Oct - Dec 2008

Women in the Indian Foreign Service

 

ARUNDHATI GHOSE

There is Still Glorification of Robust Maleness

INDER MALHOTRA

Glass Ceiling has Disappeared but with a Caveat

KISHAN S RANA

Gender Equality: This May Well Reach a Crisis Point

K.P. VIJAYALAKSHMI

Is the Glass Ceiling Still at Work?

BIBEK DEBROY

Doha – Lame Duck more than Dead Duck: An Indian Perspective

TRIDIB CHAKRABORTI

Strategic Convergence between India and Vietnam in the Twenty-first Century: “Look East” as a Parameter

RAHUL MISHRA

India’s Antipodean Neighbour: Why Engaging Australia Matters

MADHAVI BHASIN

India’s Role in South Asia: Perceived Hegemony or Reluctant Leadership?

IFTIKHAR A. LODHI

India-US Strategic Partnership, the Asian Balance of Power, and the Greater Middle East

 

 

 

ARVIND DEO

Prelude to Nepal’s First Jan Andolan

ALOK RASHMI MUKHOPADHYAY

EU India Relations: A Critique by Shazia Aziz Wülbers

SANJAY BHARDWAJ

The Jamdani Revolution: Politics, Personalities and Civil Society in Bangladesh 1989–92 by Krishanan Srinivasan

ANUSHREE BHATTACHARYYA CHAKRABORTY

Between the Rising Powers: China, Singapore and India by Asad-ul Iqbal Latif

PRIYADARSHINI PANDA

Internationalization of Higher Education: An Aspect of India’s Foreign Relations by Kavita A. Sharma

Jan - March 2009

Recent Developments in Sri Lanka: Domestic and Regional Implications

LAKHAN MEHROTRA

A Lesson in that Past for the Present Rulers

P. SAHADEVAN

Understanding the State and Military Victory in Sri Lanka

ASHOK MEHTA

India’s Hands-off Policy has not Served its National Interest

M.R. NARAYAN SWAMY

Is LTTE about to be Vanquished?

HUSSEIN SOLOMON and SALLY MATTHEWS

Responding to Ethnic Conflicts

MOHAMMED BADRUL ALAM

In Search of Consensus: Analysing India-Japan Relations

SURESH DHANDA

India’s Nuclear Weapons Programme Retrospect and Prospects

P.K. GAUTAM

Climate Change and Security: Present and Future Challenges for Diplomacy

MONIKA CHANSORIA

Changing Winds in China-Taiwan Relations: Appraising Reality

 

 

 

SHASHANK

Is IBSA the Neo-NAM?

GIRISH DHUME

A Life Across Three Continents: Recollections of a Diplomat’s Wife by Nilima Lambah

R. NARAYANAN

Fidel Castro, with Ignacio Ramonet, My Life translated by Andrew Hurley

KRISHNAN SRINIVASAN

Shridath Ramphal: The Commonwealth and the World ed. by Richard Bourne

K.N. TENNYSON

Pakistan Engagement of the Extremes by Ashutosh Misra