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    From fatigues to three-piece suits: East African guerrillas in power

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2009
    Since decolonisation in African countries ethno-political differences have led to guerrilla warfare. Through these movements, authoritarian regimes have been created.
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    Afghanistan & the international community- limitations of engagement

    Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, India, 2012
    At the Second Bonn Conference in December 2011, the international community pledged to “stay the course” in Afghanistan. The prolonged engagement of the international community, particularly the US, in Afghanistan is necessary for propping up the fragile central government and the security apparatus in its fight against the insurgents.
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    Undermining deterrence? the non state actors and India's nuclear doctrine

    Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, India, 2012
    The international security environment, characterized by the horizontal and vertical proliferation of nuclear weapons and technology holds manifold implications for India.
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    Kenya and the pest of piracy, a prospective partner for peace

    Institute for Security Studies, 2012
    The paper examines ways in which Kenya could be engaged in the counter-piracy effort in the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean. Maritime piracy has presented an increasing threat to global, economic, strategic and security interests, with the number of piracy attacks steadily increasing over the last two years.
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    Libya and the responsibility to protect: Between opportunistic humanitarianism and value-free pragmatism

    Institute for Security Studies, 2012
    The application of the ‘responsibility to protect’ (R2P) norm to Libya in 2011 was successful but controversial. For 350 years since Westphalia, sovereignty functioned as institutionalised indifference.
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    China and its peripheries: Beijing’s Myanmar strategy

    Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, India, 2013
    Being sandwiched between two very large, potentially enormously powerful and with the two largest populations in the world, China and India, handling its relationships with them required some deftness. The current essay indicates that Myanmar’s rulers, particularly the military ones, navigated these tricky waters fairly skillfully.
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    Practical guide to understanding and preventing suicide operations in Africa

    Institute for Security Studies, 2013
    Suicide attacks are a brutally effective terror tactic, irrespective of when, where or how they are executed. In Africa, the US Embassy attacks in Nairobi and Dar es-Salaam in 1998 were the first, before AQLIM, al-Shabaab and Boko Haram became household names in counter-terrorism circles.
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    Destruction of the first temple: securing the idea of Indian Nation

    Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, India, 2013
    With the evolution of the idea of the Indian Nation, progression to independence and nationhood; the need to nurture and abide by a set of foundational principles that forms a bond between the people and their chosen destiny becomes an imperative and takes the form of the constitution.
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    China and its peripheries: limited objectives in Bhutan

    Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, India, 2013
    In comprehensive power terms, Bhutan is almost a nonentity to China. This essay reviews the relations between Bhutan and China, and sheds light on its future expectations.  
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    China and its peripheries: contentious relations with North Korea

    Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, India, 2013
    The relations between China and North Korea have been described as “Lips and Teeth”. However, despite being the closest ally of China, North Korea has exercised its independent foreign policy.

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