Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN India’s Mani Shankar Aiyar with Global Security Institute’s Jonathan Granoff By Shastri Ramachandaran* IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis NEW DELHI (IDN) – The Government of India appears to be in right earnest about taking the lead in pursuing universal disarmament. The renewed vigour – for reviving the climate and conditions wherein [...]
Military Option for Iran Far From Prudent
July 5, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN Military Option for Iran Far From Prudent The writer | Credit: ACA By Greg Thielmann* IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis WASHINGTON D.C. (IDN) – Neither sanctions, cyber sabotage, nor off-and-on multilateral diplomacy has yet convinced the government of Iran to end its pursuit of activities that could give it [...]
Of Nuke States, Outliers and Global Security
June 26, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN Of Nuke States, Outliers and Global Security By Jayantha Dhanapala* IDN-InDepth NewsEssay WASHINGTON D.C. (IDN) – One definition of an outlier, in the original field of statistics from where the term has come, is "one that appears to deviate markedly from other members of the sample in [...]
Why Mideast Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone is Critical
May 23, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By Randy Rydell* IDN-InDepth NewsViewpoint GENEVA (IDN) – The world is filled with serious problems that must be addressed — poverty; racism; illiteracy; contagious diseases; terrorism; injustice; to name only a few. So why should we bother to focus on nuclear weapons? And why specifically should anybody [...]
Ten Non-Nuclear States Plead For Nuke Abolition
May 2, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By Jamshed Baruah IDN-InDepth NewsReport BERLIN (IDN) – While public attention worldwide is focussed on one authoritarian regime after another tumbling down on the Arab shores of the Mediterranean Sea, foreign ministers of 10 non-nuclear nations stretching across continents have called for "a Middle East free of [...]
Recalling Hiroshima Encounters in Times of Fukushima Crisis
May 2, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By Ramesh Jaura IDN-InDepth NewsReport BERLIN/HIROSHIMA (IDN) – Images of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, following an unprecedented nine magnitude earthquake and resultant tsunami, inevitably evoke memories of my two encounters with Hiroshima. A gentle monument in Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park is festooned with thousands of paper cranes [...]
Call For Banning Radioactive Weapons Gathers Momentum
April 11, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By Jaya Ramachandran IDN-InDepth NewsReport AMSTERDAM (IDN) – Amidst growing apprehension that the United States and its allies might use radioactive weapons in Libya, as they are reported to have done in several local and limited wars beginning with the 1991 Iraq War, the International Coalition to [...]
Public Momentum Builds Against Nukes
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Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Haider Rizvi UNITED NATIONS, Mar 25, 2011 (IPS) – Willing or not, the handful of nations armed with nuclear bombs will likely find it ever more difficult in the next few years to reject growing international opinion in support of complete abolition of nuclear weapons, anti-nukes activists [...]
DISARMAMENT: Bridges Could Become Barricades
March 5, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Analysis by Kester Kenn Klomegah MOSCOW, Mar 5, 2011 (IPS) – Although the ratification of a new strategic arms reduction treaty (START) with the United States is considered a top priority for the Medvedev administration, experts are debating whether such an agreement could threaten to reduce Russian military [...]
HOW TO WARD OFF THREATS TO PAK NUCLEAR ARSENAL?
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy B.RAMAN The daring commando style raid into a Pakistani naval base at Karachi on May 22 by terrorists of the Pakistani Taliban has highlighted once again the poor state of physical security at sensitive infrastructure in Pakistan and the undetected infiltration by extremist elements into the Pakistani Armed Forces. Since [...]