COMMENTARIES
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Sub-Regional Cooperation in South Asia: A New Lease of Life?
Saurabh Kaushik · 23 Feb, 2015 · #4839 · Commentary
During the 18th SAARC Summit held in November 2014, Prime Minister Modi remarked that regional integration in South Asia would go ahead “through SAARC or outside it, among all of us or some of us.” It is evident that SAARC as a regio...
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Australian Interest in the Indian Ocean: Domestic Motivations
Stephen Westcott · 20 Feb, 2015 · #4838 · Commentary
Australia has been edging closer to embracing the Indian Ocean region for several years and finally openly declared in the 2013 Defence White Paper that it considered the Indian Ocean to be a key interest of the country. The international compulsi...
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Dateline Islamabad
Pakistan's Hurt Locker: What Next?
Salma Malik · 18 Feb, 2015 · #4837 · Commentary · Column
A year ago, the morning of 7 January 2014 started as an average routine day for the children of Ibrahimzai village in Hangu, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. However, few minutes later, 14-year-old Aitzaz Hasan, prevented a suicide bombing attack on the scho...
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South Asian Dialectic
Resuming the Indo-Pak Dialogue: Evolving a New Focus
PR Chari · 18 Feb, 2015 · #4836 · Commentary · Column
Foreign Secretary Jaishankar is scheduled to visit Pakistan for resuming the interrupted Indo-Pak dialogue, which has got the talking heads in New Delhi into a tizzy. Why on earth did the Prime Minister reverse course after taking the firm posit...
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Himalayan Frontier
Nepal: Political Rivalries Stymieing Constitution-making
Pramod Jaiswal · 13 Feb, 2015 · #4835 · Commentary · Column
After the ruling alliance of the Nepali Congress (NC) and the Communist Party of Nepal-Unified Marxist Leninist (CPN-UML) wanted to draft the constitution with two-thirds majority, the opposition of Maoists and Madhesi parties boycotted all the ...
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Regional Economy
India and the APEC
Amita Batra · 13 Feb, 2015 · #4834 · Commentary · Column
The foreign ministers of Russia, China and India at the end of their deliberations in Beijing last week issued a comprehensive joint communiqué that included a recommendation for India’s inclusion in the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperat...
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Air Power and Future Battlefields: India's Needs
Gurmeet Kanwal · 12 Feb, 2015 · #4833 · Commentary
As the 10th edition of Aero-India gets underway at Bengaluru (18-22 February 2015), attention will be focused on big-ticket deals like the long-pending multi-billion dollar acquisition of the MMRCA by the Indian Air Force (IAF). Discussion will ...
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IPCS Discussion
West Asia, Iran Nuclear Deal, and Islamic State: Review of IPCS Forecasts
Report · 13 Feb, 2015 · #4832 · Commentary
On 9 February 2015, the IPCS, in collaboration with the India International Centre, reviewed and released three papers published as part of the Institute’s Forecast 2015 Series. The papers covered issues on West Asia (by Amb Ranjit Gupta),...
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IPCS Discussion
China, East Asia and the Indian Ocean Region: Review of IPCS Forecasts
Report · 11 Feb, 2015 · #4831 · Commentary
On 4 February, 2015, the Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies (IPCS), in collaboration with the Department of East Asian Studies, University of Delhi, and the India International Centre, conducted a review of the second set of IPCS Forecast 2...
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IPCS Discussion
Pakistan in 2015: Review of IPCS Forecast
Report · 11 Feb, 2015 · #4830 · Commentary
The IPCS, as part of its 2015 Forecast Series, published three projections titled ‘Pakistan in 2015’ (authored by Sushant Sareen, Senior Fellow, VIF; Salma Malik, QAU, Pakistan; and Dr D Suba Chandran, Director, IPCS) addressing spec...
