August 11, 2007

At Stake : National Interest
11 August 2007, by SC
The Left parties have come out with a fairly detailed critique of the bilateral Indo-US â€œ123â€ Agreement constituting the basis of the civilian nuclear cooperation deal between the two countries. Its text is being presented in this issue for the (...)
Need to Develop Close Ties with Eurasian Centre of Power
11 August 2007
While attention is currently rivetted on the Indo-US nuclear deal it is necessary to understand certain developments in our neighbourhood to which New Delhi has lately paid scant attention. One of these is the functioning of the Shanghai (...)
Left Parties’ Statement: On the Indo-US Bilateral Nuclear Cooperation Agreement
11 August 2007
The Left parties have consistently held that the nuclear cooperation agreement should not be seen in isolation from the overall strategic tie-up with the United States. The nuclear cooperation deal is an integral part of the July 2005 Joint (...)
This Business of a US-India Nuclear Deal
11 August 2007
IIn his farewell address on January 17, 1961, President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivered the prophetic warning:
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the (...)
India-US Nuclear Deal : A Few Hard Questions
11 August 2007
Even if it is agreed that the Indo-US nuclear deal is a â€œhistoricâ€ agreement, reflective of a path-breaking step taken by New Delhi and Washington, one cannot remain oblivious of its limitations as well as disadvantages. A reading of the text of (...)
Arms Salesmanship
11 August 2007
The USA has a whole battery of Think Tanks with enormous amount of materials at their disposal. And these Think Tanks are supposed to help in the moulding of public opinion and government policies.
And yet when it come to the actual application (...)
Human Rights in the Time of Patriotism
11 August 2007
Framing Geelani, Hanging Afzal: Patriotism in the Time of Terror by Nandita Haksar; Promilla & Co. Publishers in association with Bibliophile South Asia, New Delhi; pp. 348; Rs 450.
Nandita Haksar, human rights activist, who has confronted the (...)
How Taiwan is the Taiwanese?
11 August 2007
The identities of people are shaped by the experiences they share as a common group over a period of time. Every nation has its own set of historical and political experiences that sets it apart from other nations. It is these experiences that (...)
Possibility of Free Trade and Identity of Nations
11 August 2007
When trade originated in some parts of the world, especially between parts of the traditional markets and fast-developing Europe, there emerged fresh technologies of production for goods and some amount of services. At that point of time, those (...)

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