CIAO DATE 11/98

World Affairs

Vol. 2, No. 3 (Jul.–Sept. 1998)

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• Letter from the Executive Editor

• ESSAY: Nuclear India in Global Politics

  K. Subrahmanyam expatiates on why India, long a champion of nuclear disarmament, was constrained to conduct a series of nuclear tests recently.

• COMMENT: Financial Turbulence in Southeast Asia

  Trân Van-Thinh, Gilbert Etienne and Surendra J. Patel examine the causes and consequences of the financial upheaval in Southeast Asia.

 

Articles

• Why India Went Nuclear

  The US tilt towards Pakistan due to new geo-strategic reasons left India with no choice but to go nuclear, argues Prem Shankar Jha.

• Nuclear Deterrence in South Asia

  A nuclear weapons capability that is out in the open is, in most cases, better than a covert policy, contends Donald R. Westervelt.

• Facing the Future: Breathing New Life into the UN System

  A major overhaul of the UN system is long overdue. Naginder S. Sehmi offers some proposals to this effect.

• Indian Intervention in Sri Lanka : Anatomy of a Failure

  The Indian intervention in Sri Lanka in 1987 was doomed from the start. B. Ramesh Babu analyses why the ill-considered operation failed.

 

• REVIEW ESSAY: Developing Economies in an Age of Globalisation  by Sumit Roy.

 

Documents

1. Statement by Prime Minister Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee in Parliament, 27 May, 1998.

2. Letter by Prime Minister Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee to President Bill Clinton, 11 May, 1998.

3. Statement by Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif, 28 May, 1998.

4. Joint Communique by Five Permanent Members of the UN Security Council, 4 June, 1998.

5. Statement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China, 14 May, 1998.

6. US–China Joint Statement on South Asia, 27 June, 1998.