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India’s current image in most of the mainstream western media is that of an authoritarian state: a state unwilling to tolerate any dissent or criticism of its actions and policies; a state that harasses, persecutes, and imprisons critics who voice opinions or sentiments the government dubs as (...)
Modi’s hyperactivism in foreign affairs has less to do with Modi’s background, acumen or a need to severely reform India’s foreign relations than with winning legitimacy for himself.
Since he became PM, Narendra Modi has given almost obsessively high priority to foreign affairs. He’s made more (...)
The president roped once-non-aligned India into a strategic alliance, but only by bolstering the Modi government, with its religious intolerance and pro-corporate policies.
The combination could not have been more bizarre: a Soviet-style grand military parade lasting two hours; a (...)
India’s Look East policy got a clear shape with the meeting of the ASEAN ten heads of state in partnership with India in New Delhi. This process of partnering with ASEAN is not new. In this round two aspects have taken priority, one that furthers the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) framework and two, (...)
On the eve of his visit to India, and on the heels of mid-term polls in the US where voters showed their discontent with the Obama government by allowing Republicans to wrest control of the House of Representatives from the Democrats, an op-ed piece by US President Barack Obama appeared in the (...)
The Indo-US Strategic Dialogue that has taken off early this June in Washinton DC, capital of the United States, is an attempt to bring various key Indian sectors closer into the US embrace. The process, begun during President Bush’s visit to India, with the Indo-US Knowledge Initiative on (...)
Condemn the Israeli Government’s act of terrorism against humanitarian aid workers
Demand International Sanctions on Israel
Demand an immediate end to India-Israel Arms deals
In flagrant violation of all international laws, Israeli commandos attacked a flotilla of aid carrying ships, firing (...)
NEW DELHI, Nov 15 (IPS) - Unlike the rest of the world, which has welcomed the election of Barack Obama as president of the United States, Indian policymakers have misgivings, rooted in his campaign statements on Kashmir, nuclear non-proliferation and business process outsourcing from the U.S. (...)
The following is the (slightly updated) text of the paper presented at the event by Sukla Sen, an editor of the journal Peace Now, the organ of the Coalition for Nuclear disarmamnet and peace, India at the 50th Anniversary Conference of the Afro-Asian Peoples’ Solidairity Organisatio in Cairo (...)
ANY survey of the shifting foreign policy orientations of a country like India must first start from a survey of US foreign policy perspectives, since it is within the framework of the US’s global imperial project post 1991 that one must situate India’s foreign policy and diplomatic behaviour. (...)
Even as Sonia Gandhi and Manmohan Singh continue to pay lip service to the rhetoric of ‘non-alignment’ and ‘independent foreign policy’, real life leads us to ever-closer encounters with the myriad layers and dimensions of India’s growing strategic partnership with the US. We have seen ‘non-aligned’ (...)
India’s foreign policy is witnessing dramatic shifts. The traditional practice of non-alignment and the multipolar concept are being replaced by new agreements that will lead to military alignments with the United States. India is moving away from the large formations of the non-aligned (...)
Indian Doctors for Peace and Development (IDPD) and Physicians for Social Responsibility - USA (PSR) - the Indian and US affiliates, respectively, of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) - have grave concerns about the negotiated accord between US President (...)
If we had anything to celebrate this 15th August, it should be the 60th anniversary of achieving dominion status, for to be specific that’s what our old and new rulers agreed to give us in 1947. Lord Mountbatten remained head of state (Governor General) while British heads of the three services, (...)
The US is having a difficult time trying to justify the US-India nuclear deal as part of which the 123 agreement has just been concluded, guaranteeing India full civil nuclear cooperation. As the text of the agreement has been released 3 days prior to Hiroshima Day, there is consternation (...)
India’s ’strategic partnership’ with the US is having the predictable consequence of worsening its relationship with China.
NEW DELHI, Jul 6 (IPS) - Indian decision-makers are coming under growing pressure to narrow their foreign policy options as New Delhi deepens its “strategic partnership” with (...)
In 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 military-industrial complex.” He was talking of the (...)
No more can anyone peddle the fiction that the Indo-US Nuke Deal would not have US strategic strings attached. Contrary to the claims of Manmohan Singh that the Act passed by US Congress last week is a welcome one, despite some ‘extraneous and prescriptive’ provisions, the Henry J. Hyde United (...)
If there’s one thing that can be said confidently about Chinese President Hu Jintao’s visit to India, it’s that it surpassed some of the upbeat expectations it had raised. The true measure of its success doesn’t lie in the two governments’ commitment to doubling their bilateral trade to $40 billion (...)
The one “silver lining” Indian diplomats have latched on to is the “Pakistani connection” to North Korea’s “clandestine” nuclear status but this clever point aside, Pyongyang’s test of a nuclear weapon has immensely complicated India’s quest for assimilation in the existing nuclear order.
The fact is (...)
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