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India loses way in its neighborhood

At a meeting with the president of India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) at his residence in New Delhi last Friday, the functionaries of the Hindu nationalist organization Rashtriya Swayamsevak…

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India’s Modi faces an existential choice

By M.K. Bhadrakumar The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which rules India, has suffered crushing defeat in the provincial elections in the populous northern state of Bihar on the Gangetic plains.…

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Grandmaster Putin beats Uncle Sam at his own game

By Mike Whitney Imagine that you despised your brother-in-law and wanted to kill him. But you didn't have the guts to do it yourself so you hired a hit-man to…

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Erdogan rules by division and Turkey pays a price

By David Gardner President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey, a titan to his adoring admirers and a tyrant to his despairing critics, has got his way again. Against all forecasts,…

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Can the counterinsurgency doctrine be saved?

By Karsten Friis With the apparent lack of progress and success in Afghanistan and Iraq, counterinsurgency (COIN) has fallen out of favor within the political and military establishments in the…

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Bangladesh on the brink

By Tahmima Anam Over the last few weeks, the body count of intolerance has been unbearably high in Bangladesh. It started when an Italian aid worker named Cesare Tavella was…

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Minorities in Indian polity

By Kadayam Subramanian The UN Declaration on Minorities, 1992 brings out the need for special attention to the 'national or ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities'. The Constitution of India, 1950…

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Cashing in on the decision to keep US troops in Afghanistan

By Kate Brannen Why Obama dropping his promise to end America's longest war is going to give contractors billions of dollars. In August, the nation's top military officer came to…

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Putin’s plan

The latest meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club (its 12th) took place in Sochi. As always, the participants talked about a wide range of issues in contemporary international life, arguing…

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Putins initiative for global peace

By Gen Mirza Aslam Beg Russian military intervention in Syria is a deliberate act, based on years of planning. Putin solved domestic problems; re-juvinated the armed forces; ensured security of…

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