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Issue 5 – July 2012
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De-limitation of the Bangladesh-Myanmar Maritime Border0
- Issue 5 - July 2012, Issues
- October 2, 2012
Bangladesh instituted arbitral proceedings against Myanmar under Annex VII of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) in October 2009 in order to secure a maritime delimitation with Myanmar for its territorial sea, exclusive economic zone (EEZ) and continental shelf. Bangladesh filed the case both against India and Myanmar as it
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An Interview with Jeet Thayil2
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- July 3, 2012
Jeet Thayil’s incendiary debut novel, Narcopolis, reveals the drug culture of Bombay from the 60s to the present, with a lyrical, hallucinatory intensity both seductive and frightening. Drawing comparisons to the works of Burroughs and Rushdie, the novel has garnered plaudits for its stylistic invention and uncompromising portrayal of the vice teeming just below the
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Washington’s Afghan Cottage Industry0
- Issue 5 - July 2012, Issues
- July 2, 2012
In a paper written for the U.S. Institute of Peace, Noah Coburn, a professor at Skidmore College, noted that the United States and others in the NATO coalition trying to bring stability to Afghanistan have relied on warlords and powerbrokers that actually benefit from instability. As they skim off wealth because of the corrupt Karzai
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Circling the Issue: South Asian connections to Tibet0
- Issue 5 - July 2012, Issues
- July 2, 2012
The town was under complete lock down that cold January day when two young Tibetan men ducked into the courtyard of a hotel, doused their bodies in kerosene and set themselves alight. Running out into the streets of Ngaba in Sichuan province they shouted “His Holiness the Dalai Lama must return to Tibet” and “May
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Holding Serve: Tennis’ Leander Paes0
- Issue 5 - July 2012, Issues
- July 2, 2012
by MATTHEW CRONIN Leander Paes picks up the phone from his hotel room in Madrid, and with a song and a chuckle in his voice answers “city morgue.” I laugh and introduce myself. He lets me in on a joke, that after a long practice his doubles partner, Radek Stepanek, had said he would bring
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Water Under the Bridge? Int’l Resource Conflict and Post-Treaty Dynamics in South Asia0
- Issue 5 - July 2012, Issues
- July 2, 2012
Fifty-four rivers traverse the border between India and Bangladesh. As such, these countries occupy a central position in the globally-critical discourse of international water governance and related issues, including global economic security, environmental migration, and natural hazards management.
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Indian Non-Alignment in the 21st Century0
- Issue 5 - July 2012, Issues
- July 2, 2012
“But India is neither on the US side nor on China’s side, but has its own agenda,” remarked Chinese strategic analyst Wang Dehua recently while reacting to a statement made by an Indian Minister in Parliament about the number of border transgressions attributable to the Chinese in the past couple of years[i]. That agenda he
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