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The China-India-Pakistan Triangle: Scenarios for the 21st Century
No full textInternational audienceThe ties and equations between and among China, India and Pakistan representone of the key drivers of Asian security. Constituting a strategic triangle, thesethree countries are locked in complex relationships that strategically pit China andPakistan against India. The Sino-Pakistan strategic nexus is half-a-century old andgrowing stronger, as evidenced by several developments, including nuclear,missile and conventional-military cooperation, major new Chinese strategicprojects in Pakistan, and the reported presence of soldiers of the People’sLiberation Army in the Pakistani-held part of disputed Kashmir, whose control isdivided among the three countries. The bilateral equations, as well as therelationship of each of these three players with the United States, have animportant bearing on the regional security dynamics. Even as India’s relationshipwith the U.S. has grown closer, its ties with China have come under strain, largelydue to Beijing’s territorial assertiveness contributing to new military and politicaltensions.History continues to cast a shadow on the China-India and India-Pakistan politicalrelationships. But with the Sino-Indian commercial ties continuing to thrive andrapidly expand, political differences and disputes are not a barrier in the economicsphere, except when artificial trade barriers have been erected, as Pakistan hasdone vis-à-vis India. While Tibet is at the center of the Sino-Indian divide, the borders of China, India and Pakistan actually converge in the old princely state ofJammu and Kashmir. Coming to terms with history so that history is not a barrierto charting a better future remains a basic challenge in the region. In relation toPakistan, however, the real issue is not its relationship with India but its own futuretrajectory: Whether it will continue to sink in extremism, terrorism and militarism, oremerge as a stable, moderate Islamic state
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La sécurité de l'Inde après les essais nucléaires
No full textIndia's Security After the Nuclear Tests, by Brahma Chellaney
India's recent nuclear-weapons tests will help instil a sense of security in the world's second most populous nation, which faces two nuclear-armed, closely aligned adversaries. India's real test, however, has only now begun: the tests were the crucial but first step, and a long, tough road lies ahead for the country. India faces formidable challenges to build a credible nuclear deterrent especially against China. Fissile-material and financial constraints indicate India will be able to build a very small nuclear arsenal, whose small size will impose high reliability and protection standards.Cet article de Brahma Chellaney analyse, d'un point de vue indien, les conséquences des essais nucléaires de mai 1998 sur la sécurité de l'Inde. Partant d'une vision réaliste de relations interétatiques fondées sur la puissance et la force militaire s'appuyant sur la détention d'armes de destruction massive, il justifie la volonté indienne de constituer une dissuasion nucléaire crédible et une politique de puissance notamment face à la menace nucléaire et balistique qui pèse sur elle et au souhait de Pékin de confiner l'Inde au sous-continent. L'Inde, selon lui, doit s'efforcer de dépasser la « mentalité de colonisé » qui la caractérise et qui a inhibé pendant longtemps sa politique extérieure, et ainsi devenir une grande puissance qui soit capable, en particulier, de tenir tête à la Chine.Chellaney, Neal Mercedes. La sécurité de l'Inde après les essais nucléaires. In: Politique étrangère, n°3 - 1998 - 63ᵉannée. pp. 507-529
History as a barrier to charting a better future
Get PDFThe official history of any nation, however big or small, embodies a blend of fact and fiction. Besides such politicized construction of history, Asia must also deal with harmful historical legacies, revisionist history, and territorial revisionism that are threatening its peace and economic renaissance. The squabbles over history and remembrance have already cast a long shadow over Asia’s extraordinary rise. Yet history problems are only intensifying, with growing nationalism among the major actors fueling disputes over everything from territory and natural resources to war memorials and textbooks. The time is overdue to draw a line under the past. Nations in the region must find ways to commemorate their past without alienating, insulting, or offending their neighbors. Asian nations cannot change the past, but they can strive to shape a more cooperative future ̶ without, of course, forgetting history’s lessons.articl
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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