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18 July 2012

Myanmar’s two million stateless people

Rediff republished Gateway House's Venessa Parekh's article on 400,000 people of Indian origin who do not have official recognition in Myanmar. She argues that with India participating in Myanmar’s rejuvenation, it should use effective diplomacy to advance minority rights in the country.

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17 July 2012

Pakistani tycoon targets India banking

Gateway House's Ambassador Neelam Deo was quoted in a Financial Times article on Pakistani FDIs in India. She argues that it might take a while for Pakistani financial institutions to set up businesses in India, but it will happen.

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12 July 2012

India-Peru: A new Pacific pivot

The Indian Council of World Affairs republished Gateway House's Hari Seshasayee's feature on the India-Peru relationship. He argues that new commercial exchanges can enhance the bilateral, but strategic elements must be incorporated if both countries are to benefit from each others' geopolitical alliances.

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4 July 2012

Revitalising India’s ailing arms industry

Various unfavourable factors, attributed to both the government and the military, have resulted in dubbing India as the world’s largest arms importer. These factors – corruption, political interference and bureaucratic lethargy – have contributed to an absence of clarity on the use of arms in diplomacy.

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2 July 2012

Revitalising India’s ailing arms industry

South Asia Monitor published Xerxes Adrianwalla's article on India's expensive arms imports. He writes that India needs to shake off political interference and bureaucratic lethargy, and awaken its somnolent arms manufacturing sector to break away from expensive imports.

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27 June 2012

BRICS: An alternate financial framework

The Western-dominated financial system that is strangling Iran with sanctions today can do the same to BRICS oil exporters tomorrow, should their geopolitics be deemed inconvenient. Hence, there is urgency for the BRICS nations to create a new financial architecture for mutual economic benefit.

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26 June 2012

Paraguay: Back to Latin America’s bad old days?

Merco Press republished Ambassador R. Vishwanathan's article on the impeachment of the Paraguayan President, Fernando Lugo. He argues that although the incident is a setback to the young democracy of the country, it shouldn’t be viewed as a repeat of Latin America’s history of coup d’états.

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18 June 2012

The new emerging donors at Rio

Live Mint, a business daily, republished Gateway House researcher, Estefanía Marchán's article on the Rio+20 Conference. She writes about emerging economies aggressively joining the ranks of international donors in financial aid and why the BRICS nations need more flexible platforms for international engagement.

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17 June 2012

India-US: More Equal Partners

Fair Observer republished Gateway House's Ambassador Neelam Deo's article on the third Indo-U.S. strategic dialogue. She notes that the global shift of economic weight to Asia, U.S. military exhaustion, indebtedness to China and other factors call for a greater convergence in Indo-U.S. interests than ever before.