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Should the US Sell Nuclear Technology to India? – Part I

Robert Einhorn November 8, 2005
When India voted alongside the US in a recent IAEA Board resolution targeting Iran’s nuclear policies, governments around the world were stunned. It signaled that India had overturned its history of “non-alignment” and closed ranks with US foreign policy interests. The July 18 agreement between the US and India for the transfer of US nuclear technology and equipment – that preceded India’s policy...

'Protect Regime Now, Feed People Later'

Shim Jae Hoon October 18, 2005
Locked in a food shortage approaching crisis proportions – which reportedly caused two million deaths in the past five years – the government of Kim Jong-il has been wooing neighboring China and its brethren to the South for more far-reaching aid. As Seoul-based journalist Shim Jae Hoon reports, this move comes at the expense of broader, international emergency efforts coordinated by...

George W. Bush’s Suicidal Statecraft

Zbigniew Brzezinski October 14, 2005
Zibigniew Brzezinski, former national security adviser of President Jimmy Carter, is sounding an alarm at the danger that the current US policy has created for the country. In a sweeping criticism, he says that the invasion of Iraq has had a disastrous effect worldwide. “An intense political hatred for America, Britain and Israel,” he writes, “is drawing recruits for terrorism, not only from the...

Why Did We Say Nay?

Prem Shankar Jha October 4, 2005
India, once the champion of the Cold War Non-Aligned Movement, has long valued its diplomatic independence and domestic self-sufficiency. Unsurprisingly, then, the world's largest democracy's recent vote – alongside the United States – to censure Iran under the edicts of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty triggered a public uproar. From across the Indian political spectrum, critics...

Now You See It, Now You Don't

Shim Jae Hoon September 22, 2005
On September 20 – one day after committing to halt its nuclear weapons program and rejoin the Nonproliferation Treaty – the North Korean foreign ministry issued a statement essentially rescinding its position. By refusing to abandon its weapons program until it receives a civilian light-water reactor for generating electricity, writes journalist Shim Jae Hoon, the North is essentially trying to...

Le dossier nucleaire iranien pourrait provoquer une profonde rupture au sein de la Communaute internationale

Dilip Hiro September 13, 2005

Iran Nuclear Dispute Could Split World Community

Dilip Hiro September 13, 2005
Once isolated as a member of the infamous "Axis of Evil," Iran now has a growing number of friends in the higher councils of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Author of a new book on Iran, Dilip Hiro argues that the protracted negotiations surrounding the country's nuclear program amount to more than a duel between Iran and the West. Iran's steadfastness in...