Litmus test Iran

Tuesday 10 July '07

Watch how India works a balance between its interests in the Middle East, particularly Iran, and its relationship with the US

Cold war in the age of global warming

Monday 11 June '07

Forget climate change, poverty alleviation, and Africa. The main reason why the latest G-8 summit will be remembered is for outing the best kept secret in Europe.

Launch into the Ivy League

Tuesday 1 May '07

India is not far from an efficient and stable ICBM capability. Now it requires political will

The unsettling of Bangladesh

Monday 16 April '07

India may find dealing with a military-backed regime easier but it should know the dangers

China breaches the last frontier

Wednesday 31 January '07

China's strategic ambitions are clearly showing and perhaps nothing underlines this more than the country’s successful launch earlier this month of a ground-based missile to hit and destroy one of its weather satellites that had been circling the globe at an altitude of about 500 miles.

Disaster or a hard place?

Friday 3 November '06

The US is fighting a losing war in Iraq. But withdrawal will have intolerable consequences for Iraq and the world

Farewell to arms control

Tuesday 24 October '06

After Condoleezza Rice’s whirlwind tour of Tokyo, Seoul, Beijing and Moscow to cope with the fallout of North Korea’s atomic test, there’s no evidence that Pyongyang is ready to put the nuclear genie back in the bottle. What is certain: the global nuclear arms control regime is afflicted with a sickness that now appears terminal