Mainstream Weekly

Desire to Dominate : Overriding US Perception in West Asia

M Hamid Ansari — 2007-12-11T15:56:00Z

Any discussion of contemporary West Asia must begin with three questions: What is happening in the region? Why is it happening? What is the way out?
The answer to the first question is obvious. It focuses on a set of well-known situations: A Middle East peace process that is lingering on promissory notes whose encashment has been deferred repeatedly; a quagmire in Iraq that has dented the prestige and power of the United States; a failure to abandon the doctrines of 'pre-emptive (…)

- December 8, 2007

An Alternate Approach to the Traditional Paradigm of Peace and Security

M Hamid Ansari — 2007-10-09T14:41:04Z

I deem it a privilege to be invited to inaugurate today's seminar on “Politics and Security”, it being the third theme of the Indo-Bangladesh Dialogue. The dialogue itself has been in progress now for over a decade; more importantly, it has retained its autonomous character and has brought together persons of diverse political persuasions and intellectual backgrounds. It is a credible manifes-tation of civil society interaction between the two countries.
I subscribe to the view that (…)

- October 6, 2007