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Iranian leader cautions Russian president against US plan in Syria

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei told the visiting Russian President, Vladimir Putin, in Tehran that the US has a long-term plan to dominate the entire West Asian region,…

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Spirit of Federation

What is Federalism? Federalism is a political concept in which state powers and functions of government are divided between the central government and the constituent political units. Essentially this division…

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Joint Statement between India’s and China

The Union Home Minister, Shri Rajnath Singh is on an official visit to China (Beijing and Shanghai) from 18 November to 23 November, 2015. During the visit the Premier of…

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‘Indian machiavelli’ urges confronting China

By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr Forget Gandhi and satyagraha. India needs to be more strategically assertive and take China on, a longtime national security advisor to New Delhi said today.…

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India and the Politics of Extremism

By Hari Prasad & Samir Kumar The diversity of the polity and the BJP's own political future will limit Hindutva prominence in Indian politics. The lynching of Mohammad Akhlaq and…

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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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