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• Perspective

  Taking the Heat

  Dhruva Jaishankar looks at where India stands on climate change. Given the difficulties the international level, India might not even be required to play a major role at Copenhagen, either as facilitator or as veto-wielder. India’s red line therefore appears to hover somewhere close to per capita emission standards.

  Dhruva Jaishankar
• Foreign Policy

  The capacity to engage

  In the first of a two-part interview, Shashi Tharoor and Nitin Pai discuss Africa, strengthening the foreign service and changing foreign policy planning.

  Nitin Pai
• Europe

  Battling strategic irrelevance

  European leaders should beware exiting Afghanistan. They have already staked their credibility there, and the balance of power in Asia is very uncertain.

  Richard Gowan
• In Brief

  In Parliament

  It’s time to revisit the anti-defection law, argues MR Madhavan

  M R Madhavan
• Infographic

  Boomerang

  An infographic on bomb blasts in Pakistan

  Dibyojyoti Haldar

Table of contents

• Perspective

  Taking the Heat

  Dhruva Jaishankar looks at where India stands on climate change. Given the difficulties the international level, India might not even be required to play a major role at Copenhagen, either as facilitator or as veto-wielder. India’s red line therefore appears to hover somewhere close to per capita emission standards.

  Dhruva Jaishankar
• Foreign Policy

  The capacity to engage

  In the first of a two-part interview, Shashi Tharoor and Nitin Pai discuss Africa, strengthening the foreign service and changing foreign policy planning.

  Nitin Pai
• Region

  Bringing Myanmar to a boil

  A review of the developments in Myanmar and the security of the North East

  Colonel (Retd.) R Hariharan
• Region

  The Fonseka factor

  In view of the upcoming presidential elections, Venkat Ananth investigates the political churnings in Sri Lanka

  Venkat Ananth
• Europe

  Battling strategic irrelevance

  European leaders should beware exiting Afghanistan. They have already staked their credibility there, and the balance of power in Asia is very uncertain.

  Richard Gowan
• Roundup

  China eyes its Afghanistan moves

  Should the United States withdraw from Afghanistan, China would help facilitate “deployment of international peacekeeping missions in its land and accelerating its reconstruction process” – a look at the thought of replacing a US-led coalition with a UN peacekeeping force

  Steve Hynd
• Roundup

  A trip to remember

  While Mrs Clinton’s candour was a refreshing departure from the oft-tired rhetoric toed by state officials, her statements may have been a little too honest – Kalsoom Lakhani looks at Hillary Clinton’s visit to Pakistan

  Kalsoom Lakhani
• Book Review

  Pirates, smugglers and terrorists

  Successful piracy creates a negative feedback loop by empowering criminal organisations and separatist groups – Robert Farley reviews Martin Murphy’s Small Boats, Weak States, Dirty Money: Piracy and Maritime Terrorism in the Modern World

  Robert Farley
• In Brief

  In Parliament

  It’s time to revisit the anti-defection law, argues MR Madhavan

  M R Madhavan
• Perspective

  Filter

  A roundup of thought from across the world

  Ravi Gopalan

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