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Insurgency’s supply routes MATTHEW LEVITT, director at the Washington Institute’s Stein Program on Counterterrorism and Intelligence, analyzes the often-overlooked...
In Parliament
The anti-defection law was passed by parliament in 1985. Twenty-five years down the road, it is pertinent to trace the several modifications and to evaluate how...
Pirates, smugglers and terrorists
Martin Murphy’s Small Boats, Weak States, Dirty Money: Piracy and Maritime Terrorism in the Modern World (Columbia/Hurst) is a detailed and exhaustive investigation...
A trip to remember
Hillary Clinton’s first three-day visit to Pakistan as US Secretary of State was not without drama. During her tour, the highest-level visit from the Obama administration,...
China eyes its Afghanistan moves
When prestigious groups feeding into the Obama administration—from the Center for American Progress to the Center for a New American Security—write about China’s...
Battling strategic irrelevance
In the early 1970s, desperate to pull out of Vietnam, the Nixon administration made a dramatic diplomatic opening to China—and preserved US influence in Asia....
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Pragati The Indian National Interest Review No 33 | December 2009 Published by The Indian National Interest—an independent community of individuals committed to...
The Fonseka factor
In Sri Lanka, they say, politics is contested through ego-clashes and fallouts. Defections are a common political practice, and after one of the biggest such possible...
Bringing Myanmar to a boil
The coming year will see Myanmar’s first multiparty elections under the new constitution, one that hardly represents the democratic aspirations of its people....


