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30 October 2012

Salman Khurshid: Internal tasks for external impact

India’s Foreign Minister, Salman Khurshid, faces various internal challenges in his new External Affairs portfolio – an understaffed diplomatic corps and increasingly assertive regional politicians. Will Khurshid have enough time to make significant foreign policy changes, given the upcoming elections in 2014?

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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.

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12 June 2012

India-U.S.: More equal partners

The setting for the third Indo-U.S. Strategic Dialogue is promising: a global shift of economic weight to Asia, U.S. military exhaustion and indebtedness to China and other factors call for a greater convergence in Indo-U.S. interests than ever before. It is essential then, to take bold decisions at the dialogue.

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7 February 2012

Russia’s growing nationalism

The India-Russia summit in 2011 was sandwiched chronologically between two events that received much greater exposure: the Gita scandal and the Russian protests. Is this a warning sign that Russia’s state-anointed xenophobia and nationalism could act as a dampener for the formerly solid Indo-Russian relationship?

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15 July 2011

The Bangladesh bilateral: Looking to the future

The constant engagement between India and Bangladesh in the recent past has garnered a more suitable political atmosphere for enhanced bilateral relations. Looking beyond political blunders and focusing on socio-economic cooperation is at the advantage of both nations.