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Poland And India: Bracing For Strategic Partnership?

By Alok Rashmi Mukhopadhyay and Sebastian Zukowski After a hiatus of seven years, the visit of the Polish head of the government to India took place in early September 2010.…

China Tests Strategic Air Power Capability: Implications For India

The Chinese Air Force has tested its strategic air power capability for air strikes and bombing against long-distance targets in the counter-terrorism exercise under the Shanghai Co-operation Organisation (SCO) being…

Japan Energy Profile: World’s Largest Importer Of LNG

Japan has few domestic energy resources and is only 16 percent energy self-sufficient. Japan is the third largest oil consumer in the world behind the United States and China  and…

Genetics And Immigration – Public Debate About Muslims In Germany

By Alexa Bankert Immigration is a delicate issue in every country. The expansion of a national community always requires the reformulation and revision of the societal consensus, which almost inevitably…

China–Japan Confrontation at Sea: Senkaku Islands Issue Won’t Go Away

By Dean Cheng In recent weeks, a group of uninhabited rocky outcroppings in the East China Sea between Okinawa and Taiwan have become a serious source of tension between Beijing…

Stuxnet: the Trinity test of cyberwarfare

On August 5, I reported on the strong evidence that Iran had become the target of a state-sponsored cyber attack. At that point it was already understood that the Stuxnet…

Chinese New Nuclear Power Reactor Supply To Pakistan?

By Ch. Viyyanna Sastry Even before the dust settled on the legality of China’s supply of two pressurized water reactors of 300 MWe capacity to Pakistan, reports are coming out…

POSSIBLE ISRAELI CYBER ATTACK SABOTAGED IRAN’S BUSHEHR REACTOR

Though the Stuxnet cyber-attack which likely targeted Iran’s nuclear facilities may’ve begun as early as 2009, computer security experts have only this month published their full analysis of one of…

German Cyber-Security Expert: Stuxnet’s Target, Natanz Reactor

Might Stuxnet have been the preemptive first strike in Israel’s campaign against Iran’s nuclear program? My post yesterday about Stuxnet noted cybersecurity experts who analyzed the massive computer worm which…

Libya Energy Profile: Largest African Proven Oil Reserves

The Libyan economy is heavily dependent on the hydrocarbon industry which, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), accounted for over 95 percent of export earnings and an estimated 80…

Constitutional History Of US Foreign Policy: 222 Years Of Tension In Twilight Zone

By Walter A. McDougall In 1973, Congress passed the infamous War Powers Resolution (WPR), over Richard Nixon’s veto. It was perhaps the most ambitious Congressional effort to bridle the President…

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