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MILITARY INTERVENTION IN SYRIA – A QUAGMIRE SCENARIO

Canberra, 7 September 2013 The Middle East and South West Asia is yet to recover from two US-led military interventions in Afghanistan and Iraq and indications are that the healing and normalisation process in these countries and neighbourhood will take years, if not decades. The so-called Syrian Civil War that broke out in March 2011, […]

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INDIA IN THE 21 CENTURY: AN EMERGING GLOBAL POWER?

  Canberra, 21 June 2013   [This is an abridged version of a presentation that I gave to the University of Western Australia in Perth, on 9 May 2013.] Introduction “India is at once a rising power with an expanding middle-class; and a poor, unequal and misgoverned country.” India’s civilisation is one of the oldest […]

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