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    Asymmetric warfare and low intensity maritime operations: challenges for Indian navy

    2006
    The Indian Maritime Doctrine notes that the 1990s has seen a surge of asymmetric attacks in which terrorists and non-state actors have carried out devastating attacks on US warships on the coast as well as in the hinterland. The Doctrine also notes that cheap, improvised and easy to obtain weapons have been used by suicidal groups to carry out destruction/damage to high value military targets.
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    Statebuilding and Peacebuilding in Situations of Conflict and Fragility: Topic Guide

    Governance and Social Development Resource Centre, 2014
    Statebuilding and peacebuilding, while conceptually distinct, are becoming more closely integrated in academic and policy circles. This Topic Guide supplement looks at the links (and tensions) between statebuilding and peacebuilding, how these activities interact, and how they can be approached in practice.
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    Iraq policy of the United States: dimensions of failure

    Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, 2007
    The invasion and occupation of Iraq in March-April 2003 by a 'Coalition of the Willing' led by the United States was the second part of the response to the outrage conducted by a non-state actor on September 11, 2001. This was perceived in Washington as a gift from history, an opportunity to reshape a region of crucial relevance to the politics and economics of the western world.
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    Dialectics of the Afghanistan conflict how the country became a terrorist haven

    Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, 2008
    The attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington were unparalleled by anything seen before in peace time. It led the Americans right back onto the Afghan trail, where they had fought a proxy war against the Soviet Union before the communist superpower disintegrated in 1991.
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    India-Myanmar Relations (1998-2008): a decade of redefining bilateral ties

    Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, 2009
    An examination of India's policy towards Southeast Asian countries shows that Myanmar figures prominently from all perspectives political, security, economic and strategic.
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    Sequencing reforms in fragile states: Topic guide

    Governance and Social Development Resource Centre, 2014
    How can governments in fragile and conflict affected states (FCAS) plan and manage reforms when everything is urgent and important, and when capacity and resources are low? How can external actors strategically support the fulfilment of essential and expected state functions?
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    Safety, security and justice: Topic guide

    Governance and Social Development Resource Centre, 2014
    Safety, security and justice are priorities for poor people and are associated with development outcomes, including the prevention of violent conflict, accountable and effective states, economic growth and service delivery.
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    India and Japan: changing dimensions of partnership in the post-Cold War period

    Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, 2010
    The evolution of Japan's post-war relations with most Asian countries was largely governed by two factors the legacies of the Second World War and the compulsions of the Cold War. While the Southeast Asian region posed formidable diplomatic challenges to Japan, South Asia provided a soothing contrast.
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    Japan's security policy in the Asia-Pacific during the post-Cold War period

    Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, 2010
    The Asia-Pacific region has now emerged as the main centre of dynamic economic and technological development in the world.  Though the success story of Japan's rise to the status of an economic super power is too well-known, the growth trajectories of China and India , if their current tempo of growth is sustained, will add new dimensions to the emerging economic and security architect
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    Understanding the Casamance conflict: A background

    Kofi Annan International Peace Keeping Training Centre, 2010
    For the first decade of independence, West Africa became the theater of numerous armed conflicts. Whether it was bloody coups d’état, rebellions or violent separatist projects, no single West African country has escaped armed intervention in its politics.

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