V D Chopra
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Vietnam occupeis a strategic position in Asia. But there is something more to it. Vietnam was under the Chinese rule for about a thousand years, French rule for about eighty years, and Japanese occupation during the Second World War. After Vietnam declared its independence in 1945 but it had to fight against France till 1954 and then against the United States till 1973. Seen in this context, how this brave nation is modernising and industrialising itself in on ...
This book is a compilation of articles by over two dozen Indian specialists on India's relations with Russia and Russia Today, after the disintegration of the Soviet Union. It is a unique exercise. This study is first of its kind which makes an objective estimate of both India's relations with Russia and changes in Russia during 90's in the last century. The book was conceived as an integrated whole and specialists on their respective disciplines were requested ...
Since the September 11, 2001 strikes on World Trade Centre in New York and subsequent tragic events in India—attacks on Jammu and Kashmir Assembly, on Indian Parliament (13 December) and growing trend to cross-border terrorism, the threat to international peace and stability, of South Asia in particular has assumed a dangerous proportion. In this volume nearly two dozen intellectuals and experts have contributed papers on rise of global terrorism—its ...
The end of the Cold War has fundamentally changed the international scenario. The post-Cold War period has evoked conflicting and contradictory responses both from the scholars and the political elite which have raised a number of theoretical and ideological questions, including the validity of the concept of socialism. It is too early to pass any judgement on all these questions because the world is still passing through the new ferment. Nevertheless, in the ...
Japan has emerged virtually as a super economic power. Perhaps next to the United States, it has become a most powerful factor in the global economy. It achieved her national objective of catching up with the West in economic development by the seventies. It is during the last two to three decades that it has begun to play an important role in shaping the international economic order. This naturally has created certain frictions between Japan and the United ...
This book attempts to examine the New Trends in Indo-Russian Relations after the disintegration of the Soviet Union. Over two dozen outstanding scholars have analysed, these relations in the new historical conditions. It is relevant to mention here that recently Russia conducted its first naval exercise with India, which brings out the nature of strategic cooperation. These relations should be seen when a series of steps are being taken by Russia to forge closer ...
Never before in history has so much fear gripped the human mind as today-the fear of nuclear holocaust. Many a book have been written on this nightmarish anxiety, but not enough. Many bookstores are stacked with literature on the horrid possibility of the “moment of annihilation and wasteâ€, but not enough. This book, in the same genre, is a small contribution towards the same pursuit-revealing to the reader through a critical perspective of all the dark ...
This book makes an objective assessment of Genesis and fall out of U.S.-U.K. military operations in Iraq beginning in the third week of March, 2003 with a multi dimensional approach. It underlines how this development marks the beginning of a new trend in American foreign policy, which not only unfolds serious consequences of unipolarism put also undermines the authority and role of the United Nations. However, that is half-truth. Almost simultaneously ...
This book has been complied when Afghanistan is once again passing through a most critical period of its history. In this study for the first time an attempt has been made to critically examine the genesis of crises in Afghanistan, its historical roots, conflicting geopolitical interest of big powers in the post cold war period. Its proximity to Central Asia which has rich rich oil resources, role of Islamic card and theory of ‘civilizational conflicts’ in th ...
This is a history, of evolution of Japan’s nuclear capability, significantly different from the many that have hit the stands in recent times on nuclear proliferation. And for good reasons too. This book is authored by one who as a political activist has known the masses, the common people on the first-person basis, who as a journalist and political commentator has known the minds of the leaders and the administrators of Japan, through direct interaction with ...
In the beginning of the 21st century, significant changes are taking place in the international situation and relationship among the various countries of the world. The world as it is today is unipolar with the United States as the dominant economic and military power. This indeed is the most outstanding development of the period following the disintegration of the Soviet Union. But this is half-truth. Now the world is witnessing new changes and t his will have a ...
Thought it is too early to come to form conclusions about the future of relations among the various countries of our planet, one, thing is certain that relationships among the various countries big and small are undergoing basic changes. In fact, some scholars have aptly equated our hemisphere with a cosmic ship in which each country is becoming interdependent. Metaphorically speaking, if one department of this cosmic ship has any violent change, it unleashes a ...
In this book some of the India's outstanding scholars and experts have given a fresh look to the Indo-Russian relations in the 21st century in the fast Russian relations in the 21st century in the fast changing world situation. In a period of globalization and emergence of an interdependent world, what has to be understood is that Asia has become 'Centre of Gravity' of our planet. If the attention of the developed nations is concentrated on this ...