| Bangkok Crises |
| - Revathi Sivakumar |
This small, but beautiful constitutional monarchy of Thailand is undergoing the throes of instability. In the past few years, this nation has been racked by violence, as a number of coups, changes in government and mass demonstrations have laid bare the problems under the peaceful face of the country.
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| Iran's Nuclear Programme - A Threat or Farce? |
| - Revathi Sivakumar |
On May 17, 2010, Iran announced an agreement it had negotiated with Turkey and Brazil. Iran said that it would ship and store 2,640 pounds of low enriched uranium to Turkey. In return, Iran would receive 265 pounds of material enriched to 20 percent from Russia and France. Last year, too, Iran had announced a similar deal, but had not kept to its commitment. Hence, experts suspect that this time too Iran is not sincere, and is just making announcements in order to deflect sanctions that are threatening to be imposed on it by the Big Five.
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| USA-Russia:
The START of New Relations? |
| - Revathi Sivakumar |
“The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia,” Otto von Bismarck, a former prime minister of Prussia in the 19th century had once said. Given Russia's size, strategic geographic location, reach and power, this remark makes sound sense. At least, Barack Obama, the US President, certainly seems to think so!
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| Turning War into Peace: A Look at the Mid-East Crisis
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| - Aindrila Chakraborty |
With the world signing in for a much milder path, can the Israel-Palestine issue be re-addressed? That is the moot question, which this article seeks to address.
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