Today’s Ghaziabad Municipal corporation has much in common with the seventeenth century ancien régime in France.
In a piece in Foreign Affairs [subscription required], Sheri Berman wants the policymakers to look to Louis XIV and the development of France’s ancien régime for guidance while undertaking state-building in Afghanistan.
During the second half of the seventeenth century, accordingly, [...]
A rebuff for the Kashmiri separatists from China and EU.
Mir Waiz Umar Farooq really seems to be landing himself into trouble. First, he had to stave off internal problems in the Hurriyat by dissolving his executive and governing council, and issue a gag order on media interaction. All this while he is also being targeted [...]
The speeches that announced the start of the Marshall Plan and acknowledged the transformation of Japan.
I need not tell you, gentlemen, that the world situation is very serious. That must be apparent to all intelligent people. I think one difficulty is that the problem is one of such enormous complexity that the [...]
Only two parties seem to be keen on an aggressive Indian military response. One is of course the Pakistani army, which triggered it all for this very purpose. The other one, surprisingly, is a section of the Indian media.
For these people, a sobering anecdotal thought about the men and women who go to war comes [...]
…was prevented by Nicolas Sarkozy.
Jean-David Levitte, Mr Sarkozy’s chief diplomatic adviser, reported the exchange in a news magazine before an EU-Russia summit today. The meeting will be chaired by the French leader and President Medvedev.
With Russian tanks only 30 miles from Tbilisi on August 12, Mr Sarkozy told Mr Putin that the world would not [...]
…with upgrading weapons of Soviet origin.
The Polish defence minister was on a three-day state visit to India to further “a long tradition of friendship and cooperation in various fields including Defence Production and Supplies”. Now Defense News [via Russian daily Kommersant] reports that—
India’s military authorities are interested in getting the assistance of Polish military to [...]
…should be our response in Congo.
Why does India send its troops on UN assignments abroad? Although there are many facile arguments put forth for deploying the Indian military in far-away lands “in the cause of an ideal”, it is evident that such deployment is not dictated to meet any national policy or grand diplomatic goals.
There [...]
Some high-level telephone calls… a secret rendezvous… between US and Russian Joint Chiefs of Staff… at Helsinki…
Is it like going back in a time warp? Fortunately, only the superficial similarities bring the feeling of déjà vu about the pre-Berlin Wall era.
The United States and Russia on Tuesday sent their top military officers to this neutral [...]
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