IISS-Citi India Global Forum 2008 Press Coverage
- 18 July 2008 - - Daily Times - Averting a drift
Indias National Security Adviser, M K Narayanan is known for circumspect public statements. In April this year he told the Indian and foreign participants in the India Global Forum held in New Delhi that India welcomed a stable Pakistan and that the transition to democracy in Pakistan would help further the building of a mutually beneficial relationship. He did not seem to be just exercising the unique Indian gift of saying the right thing to influential westerns; he was evidently brushing aside the specul
- 10 May 2008 - - Economic Times - India: A rising great power in 2008?
India as a rising great power (IRGP) was the theme of an international conference held in Delhi (April 18-20) under the aegis of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), London and had an impressive mix of participants. But clearly the mismatch between the external view of India which is more rosy and perhaps exaggerated and the reality that is India with its robust GDP growth rate masking Bharat and its glaring socio-economic inequities cannot be wished away. India alas, has...
- 08 May 2008 - - Indian Express - Speaking truth to Rising Power
Indian strategists, ordinarily, should have been delighted at the recently concluded International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) conference held in New Delhi discussing the rise and apparent unveiling of India as the new global power. Except, Minister Kamal Nath in his opening remarks began by expressing his discomfort with the concept of power', a theme that dominated the rest of the proceedings. His reasoning, unsurprisingly for a trade minister, was based on economic grounds but it...
- 25 Apr 2008 - - Pioneer - The power of pretence
While it is nobody's case India should outsource its foreign policy to another country, it is worth asking what role, if any, it sees for itself in the power drama of the 21st century. The war of words vis-à-vis the Iranian President's visit is just one sample of this predicament. The actions of successive Indian public officials at the International Institute of Strategic Studies conference on India, held in New Delhi over the past weekend, presented other examples
- 23 Apr 2008 - - Straits Times - India sends signal to US with Iranian leader's visit
On Sunday, in the clearest signal India has publicly sent, PM Singh's national security adviser M.K. Narayanan said 'any mishandling will impact negatively on us'.
Pointing out that India had the second-largest population of Shi'ite Muslims in the world after Iran, and that the two countries had civilisational ties, Mr Narayanan went on to note that Iran was a country with a major global footprint.
- 23 Apr 2008 - - Live Mint - Refuelling halt triggers storm in a tea cup
Trust the visit of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to set the cat among the pigeons.
When Indias national security adviser M.K. Narayanan told the International Institute of Strategic Studies-Citi India Global Forum meeting on a sleepy Sunday afternoon that Ahmadinejad had asked to stop over on 29 April and New Delhi had said yes he knew it would stir things up.
