Saturday, January 30, 2010

Prof. Mattoo reviews Nyla Ali Khan's latest book


Prof. Amitabh Mattoo has short but nice book review in the latest issue of India Today on Nyla Ali Khan's book Islam, Women and Violence in Kashmir: Between India and Pakistan . . .


Nyla Ali Khan, granddaughter of Sheikh Abdullah, teaches at the University of Nebraska at Kearney.
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Prof. Mattoo on India's National Security Architecture


Prof. Mattoo has a new essay in the Telegraph about the challenges facing India's national security architecture . . .



He points out that though India faces immense opportunities, the Indian state appears incapable of exploiting them. Rising to these opportunities requires a restructuring of the Indian national security architecture, a task that the the new National Security Advisor Mr. Shiv Shankar Menon will need to address. You can read his full essay here.
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Friday, January 29, 2010

Prof. Swaran Singh on BASIC and Climate Change


Prof. Swaran Singh has a new essay in the Global Times on the BASIC Group and global climate change negotiations . . .



He argues that the BASIC countries show strong potential in leading the climate change negotiations. As he puts it "BASIC seems to be the only group that shows the promise to sustain this momentum and the capacity to expand consensus on mitigation efforts." You can read the full essay here.
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Friday, January 22, 2010

Prof. Mattoo for 'grand reconciliation' between India and Pakistan


Prof. Mattoo has a new essay in Thursday's Times of India about the need for a 'grand reconciliation between India and Pakistan . . .


He argues that the conflict is complex and rejects monocausal explanations for the conflict. He goes on to argue that the solution also has to be sought at multiple levels simultaneously, hence a 'grand reconciliation'. You can read his full essay by following the Times of India link above or here.
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Dr. Ranvijay, CIPOD Alumnus, on internal conflcts in India


Dr. Ranvijay, a CIPOD alumnus, currently UPSAM Fellow at the University of Peace has written an essay about internal conflicts in India.


He divides the internal conflicts into those over Kashmir, others in Northeast and yet others in central and eastern India.

The essay was published in the Peace and Conflict Monitor. You can read his full essay here.
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Friday, January 8, 2010

Prof. Swaran Singh on the recently concluded India-China ADD


Professor Swaran Singh has a new essay in the China Daily about the recent Annual Defence Dialogue (ADD) between China and India . . .



He suggests that "As China and India begin working together on the larger global issues such as climate change and hold the first BASIC (Brazil, South Africa, India and China) meeting this year, the third ADD could lay the foundation and make worthwhile contribution to their efforts by lowering tensions across their borders in the fragile environs of the Himalayas".

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Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Dr. Negi at Oxford conference on 'Effective Multilateralisms'


Dr Archna Negi from CIPOD attended an International Conference on “Effective Multilateralisms: Cross-Regional Perspectives” at St Anne’s College, University of Oxford from 17-19 December 2009. The conference was organized by the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford.



Dr. Negi's brief comments:

The Conference focused on the management of global security relations in the 21st century in light of the growing gap between the ‘normative ambitions’ of the international society and the ‘lack of means to deliver them’. Discussions centered on possible forms of global governance that can effectively achieve desired global action outcomes and a ‘global order based on the principle of effective multilateralism’. Nuclear non-proliferation and climate change were the two themes identified for discussion, being areas of severe potential consequences in the event of a collective action failure. Principles, problems and prospects relating to these issue areas were discussed from a cross-regional perspective.

Dr Negi’s presentation was titled “Effective Multilateralism, Climate Change and Trade: Prospects for Conflict and Cooperation between the Trade and Environmental Governance Systems”. Although there is an established prima facie case for the need for ‘effective multilateralism’ in the realm of climate change as well as trade, no two regimes are more visibly blighted with the curse of ‘ineffective multilateralism’ than those relating to climate change and trade. The presentation dealt individually with each of these governance systems and attempted to identify possible explanations for the ‘deadlocked multilateralism’ that currently characterizes both regimes. It focused specifically on potential areas of conflict and cooperation between the trade and climate change regimes. Based on specific examples, some generalizations relating both to effective multilateralism as well as coherence across the two regimes were sought to be identified.


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