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Vol. 1, No.1              January - March 2006

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DEBATE

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

 

 

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ORAL HISTORY

 

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

I. K. GUJRAL

Former Prime Minister, late Inder Kumar Gujral was India’s Ambassador to the Soviet Union when the Soviet Union 'intervened' in Afghanistan in 1979. The Soviet intervention also coincided with a change of Government in India. While Charan Singh was the Prime Minister on the day the Soviet troops entered Afghanistan, Indira Gandhi returned as Prime Minister within days thereafter.

He recalls how India responded to the event.

 

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ARTICLES

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

 

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BOOK REVIEWS

 

 

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

 

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Vol. 1, No. 2          April - June 2006

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DEBATE

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

 

 

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ORAL HISTORY

 

India at the Rabat Islamic Summit (1969)

 

GURBACHAN SINGH

 

Late Ambassador Gurbachan Singh was the Indian Ambassador to Morocco and who, as acting Leader of the Indian Delegation, participated in one of the Plenary Sessions of the Summit Conference of Islamic Countries at Rabat in September 1969, provides an insider’s account

 

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ARTICLES

 

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

 

 

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BOOK REVIEWS

 

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

 

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Vol. 1, No. 3       July - September 2006

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DEBATE

 

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

 

 

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ORAL HISTORY

 

The Evolution of the Indian Foreign Service Establishment

K. S. BAJPAI

K. S. Bajpai, former Ambassador of India, shares the contribution of his father, G.S. Bajpai, who, as its Secretary General, was the first head of independent India’s Foreign Office and of the IFS, to the Foreign Service Establishment.

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Nepal: Diplomacy Between Unequal Neighbours in our Times

 

JAGAT S. MEHTA

Jagat S. Mehta, Foreign Secretary of India from 1976 to 1979, recollects a phase of India’s relations with Nepal that saw the separation of Trade and Transit Treaties 1978, events leading to it and its repercussions.

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ARTICLES

 

 

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

 

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BOOK REVIEWS

 

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 Emerging Challenges by Foundation for Peace and Sustainable Development

 

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

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Vol. 1, No. 4       October - December 2006

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DEBATE

 

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

 

 

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ORAL HISTORY

 

 

The "Mao’s Smile” Revisited: Sino-Indian Relations during an Important Period

 

BRAJESH MISHRA

Brajesh Mishra, former National Security Advisor and Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister of India recalls his meeting as India’s Chargé d'affaires with Chairman Mao Tse Tung on 1 May 1970 and its larger implications.

 

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ARTICLES

 

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

 

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BOOK REVIEWS

 

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.

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