Realism:Failure of 'Power'
From Holocaust to Holocaust
Summary:Massacre of more than 5 million Jews through various tactics of torture in the concentration camps, set up by Hitler in Germany before and during the World War11 is still regrettable and condemnable. According to the Jewish sources, in a concentration camp of Poland alone, over 2 million Jews were killed in that connection. However, it was a big human tragedy, popularly known as the Holocaust, conducted by the forces and machinery of state terrorism.
Massacre of more than 5 million Jews through various tactics of torture in the concentration camps, set up by Hitler in Germany before and during the World War11
is still regrettable and condemnable. According to the Jewish sources, in a concentration camp of Poland alone, over 2 million Jews were killed in that connection. However, it was a big human tragedy, popularly known as the Holocaust, conducted by the forces and machinery of state terrorism.
In the aftermath of the September 11 events, [...]Detecting Real Terrorists in Kashmir
Summary:World phenomena of terrorism that has gained much significance after the 9/11 suicide attacks in the US homeland is marked principally by continuing confusion about its definition and application. In such a situation, even ‘war of liberation’ in the occupied Kashmir is being equated with terrorism and it becomes much difficult for the general masses to detect the real terrorists.
World phenomena of terrorism that has gained much significance after the 9/11 suicide attacks in the US homeland is marked principally by continuing confusion about its definition and application. In such a situation, even ‘war of liberation’ in the occupied Kashmir is being equated with terrorism and it becomes much difficult for the general masses to detect the real terrorists.
India which immediately joined the American war on terror after the September 11 catastrophe, has continuously been [...]Tragic Joke of Indian Secularism
Summary:Since 9/11, India which joined the vile propaganda campaign of some Western countries including American Jewish lobby in equating Muslims with fundamentalism and in creating Islamic phobia is itself a real fundamentalist state under the shadow of secularism. Although violence against the other communities has been used by Hindu fundamentalists as a normal practice since partition, yet intensity of the anti-Muslim and anti-Christian bloodshed in the last decade coupled with the dissemination of Hindutva (Hindu nationalism) has converted the Indian secularism in a tragic joke.
Deadly Double Game
Summary:India whose Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had signed 11 wide-ranging agreements with China on January 14, 2008, strengthening mutual cooperation, showing inactive approach in the solution of border dispute, has been clandestinely supporting the Tibetan insurgents as part of its double game.
India whose Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had signed 11 wide-ranging agreements with China on January 14, 2008, strengthening mutual cooperation, showing inactive approach in the solution of border dispute, has been clandestinely supporting the Tibetan insurgents as part of its double game.
On March 10, 2008, anti-government protests by Buddhist monks erupted in Tibet's capital, Lhasa and later on flared in nearby provinces, killing 18 innocent civilians.
Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of Tibet [...]US Intervention in Pakistan
Summary:Faced with the unsuccessful war against terrorism, the visit of the US Deputy Secretary of State, John Negroponte and Assistant Secretary of State, Richard Boucher on March 26, this year enraged the people of Pakistan. Apart from negotiating with Pakistan’s President Musharraf, both the high officials also talked to the elected Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani and met various leaders of the PPP, PML (N) ANP, MQM, and PML (Q) including tribal elders. Unlike the past, the timing of the Negroponte-Boucher visit during the transfer of government amounted to the US open intervention in the political process of Pakistan.
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'Power factor' in International Relations as emphasized by realist theorists have failed in coping with new brand of Islamic militancy. Non-sovereign entities like the Muslim radicals are checking the power of the US-led allies in another way through ambush attacks and suicide missions as noted in Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, Lebanon and elsewhere in the world. Infact, they are checking the ongoing international system and the 'status quo' which protects the interests of the most powerful countries at the expense of the weak states. Situation is becoming very critical day by day. There is already low intensity conflict and cold war between the Muslims and Western Christians. If such a practice of 'power' continues by both the state and non-state actors, present drastic events of the 'different war' may culminate into clash of civilizations or World War 111. We must realize that mow the days of Machiavelli, Hobbes and Morgenthau are over in an era of peaceful settlement of disputes and economic development in a rapidly changing world. The right hour has come to prevent any greater war especially between the Muslim and Christian worlds. So efforts must be made by the intellectuals and media of the two major communities including Israel to follow a peace based upon idealism, not realism. This is the right hour to save the world peace though compromise- adjustment of interests of both the big and small states alike in a manner by wihich the same could be reconciled peacefully, otherwise global security as maintained through power factor in sense of realism would be at a greater risk.
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