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Born at midnight, fated never to see the sunshine of amity. That, to some, is the India-Pakistan story. Whether it is Kashmir or the nuclear issue or the cricket field, the two seldom seem to agree. A shared culture has ever divided, never united. The subcontinental twins went to war within months of becoming independent. Over the following half-century, they’ve fought three other wars, clashed at the United Nations and in every conceivable global forum. Today, ...
South Asia is an area of tension and conflict due to the current situation in Afghanistan, the hostility between India and Pakistan, the tensions between Bhutan and Nepal and the ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka, which has ramifications for India. Moreover, with India and Pakistan becoming de facto nuclear weapons states, tensions have mounted and the focus has shifted to the importance of strategic environment in the South Asian region. The asymmetry between India ...
Indian "interference" or involvement in Sri Lanka between 1983 and 1990 has been generally criticised as "an act of unwarranted intrusion" into a small neighbouring country by India, as a first step aimed at imposing India's "hegemony" on South Asia, an Indian initiative which was based on erroneous political judgement; as "a Vietnam" for the Indian Army', and as a "failure" of India's foreign policy and ...
India's former Foreign Secretary and former Member of the National Security Advisory Board Committee of Government of India presents a scholarly work entitled India and Regional Developments: Through the Prism of Indo-Pak Relations. The theme has deep bearing on Indian political relations with Pakistan, Afghanistan and Kashmir. The author has given rich details on India vis-a-vis regional developments with their effects on several complex events from time to ...
In this brilliant, insightful book, J.N. Dixit chronicles the role of those who have played an important role in fashioning and implementing India's Foreign Policy since and before independence-right up to the 12 SAARC summit in Islamabad in January 2004. In doing so he fulfils a major gap in the study of Indian Foreign Policy, for he focuses not just on the Nehru-Gandhis but also on those who are less well-known, including diplomats and policy advisers. In the ...
India’s former foreign Secretary and former Member of the National Security Advisory Board Committee of government of India presents a book on India’s Foreign Policy of contemporaneous relevance focusing momentous events in which India has been responding to the challenge of International Terrorism and religious extremisms. The author continues to observe and analyse momentous events in international politics and regional developments since the summer of the ...
The book in a manner is a sequel to his book "Across Borders". It is a collection of his articles on foreign affairs and India's foreign policy orientations, covering the period from 1994 to the summer of 2001. The relevance of the book is that its contents analyze events as they occurred over the last seven years or so and assess their implications in regional political terms and in terms of their impact on India's interests. The articles are ...