INDO-IRANIAN TIES: THICKER THAN OIL
This article examines the nature and extent of the Indo-Iranian relationship. Interest in this bilateral relationship piqued in the United States due to the policy debate surrounding the United States-India civilian nuclear agreement and the ever-deepening Iranian nuclear crisis. While it has become de rigueur to suggest that this relationship is centered on hydrocarbon politics, this article contends that the Indo-Iranian relationship has much more to do with India’s great power aspirations and concomitant expansive agenda for Central Asia. This article concludes with some reflections on the limits of this relationship and the importance of India to international efforts to contain Iran.
The role of Pakistan's military in the control system over nuclear programmes
................................................................................................................................. 4 Acknowledgments ................................................................................................................... 5 Glossary of Abbreviations ..................................................................................................... 12 Introduction .......................................................................................................................... 21 1. Background: The Issue of Nuclear Proliferation from Pakistan .............................................. 21 2. The Academic Debate on Nuclear Proliferation from Pakistan .............................................. 22 3. The Main Objective of this Research on Pakistan’s Nuclear Proliferation ............................... 24 4. The Analytical Framework ................................................................................................ 25 5. The Analytical Process ..................................................................................................... 27 6. Pakistan’s Nuclear Proliferation and its Potential for Academic Knowledge ............................ 29 Chapter One: Pakistan’s Military Involvement in the Evolution of the National Control System and in the Nuclear Proliferation of AQ Khan’s Network ............................................. 32
The Internet and the Changing Beijing-Taipei Relations: Toward Unification or Fragmentation?
Information and its technologies facilitate the exercise of what has been called “soft power,” a concept that differentiates information from the conventional dimensions of “hard power,” which is mainly associated with military force and economic influence. Soft power, according to Nye, a former Assistant Secretary of Defense of the United States, means that “A country may obtain the outcomes it wants in world politics because other countries want to follow it, admiring its values, emulating its example, aspiring to its level of prosperity and openness. In this sense it is just as important to set the agenda in world politics and attract others as it is to force them to change through the threat or use of military or economic weapons.”1