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  • IPCS Forecast: Myanmar in 2015
    Aparupa Bhattacherjee    ·   21 Jan, 2015    ·    #4817    ·    Commentary    
    2014 was a year of ups and downs for Myanmar. Naypyidaw successfully completed its ASEAN chairmanship that enhanced the country’s legitimacy both within the region and internationally. However, in the domestic arena, Myanmar did not fare w...
  • IPCS Forecast: China in 2015
    Teshu Singh    ·   21 Jan, 2015    ·    #4816    ·    Commentary    
    The year 2014 can be considered the new leadership’s first year of functioning’. As predicted in early 2014 (China 2013: New Leadership), the foregoing year saw a more assertive China at the global level. Towards the end of the year,...
  • IPCS Forecast: Towards a Nuclear Deal with Iran in 2015
    Ruhee Neog    ·   19 Jan, 2015    ·    #4815    ·    Commentary    
    2014 was a year of significant global political upheaval; one in which the US, first among equals, had to repeatedly prove its diplomatic mettle. Of these, the Iran-West rapprochement and negotiations for a political settlement on the Iranian nu...
  • IPCS Forecast: Islamic State in 2015
    Rajeshwari Krishnamurthy    ·   19 Jan, 2015    ·    #4814    ·    Commentary    
    In 2014, the world, already engaged in the tedious task of controlling and eliminating several religious radical terrorist groups, came face to face with a new and more brutal terrorist group, the Islamic State (IS). This group has proven itself...
  • Red Affairs
    IPCS Forecast: Left-wing Extremism in 2015
    Bibhu Prasad Routray    ·   19 Jan, 2015    ·    #4813    ·    Commentary    ·   Column
    This edition of the IPCS Column, 'Red Affairs', is the precis of a larger document titled 'Left-wing Extremism in 2015', published under the IPCS Forecast 2015 series. Click here to read the full report . At the onset of 201...
  • Australia & India: A New Era in Defence Cooperation?
    Stephen Westcott    ·   19 Jan, 2015    ·    #4812    ·    Commentary    
    Following a particularly productive year in Indo-Australian relations that saw great strides most notably in defence cooperation, it is timely to reflect upon the events and ask two key questions: what is the status of the bilateral defence relati...
  • India’s Defence Procurement: The Indigenisation Challenge
    Saumitra Mohan    ·   19 Jan, 2015    ·    #4811    ·    Commentary    
    Pragmatism informed by the appreciation of national interests seems to have given way to a garbled policy of compromising national security in favour of playing safe to avoid the accusations of ‘kickbacks’ in defence purchases. One r...
  • Indo-Pacific
    IPCS Forecast: Southeast Asia in 2015
    Shankari Sundararaman    ·   19 Jan, 2015    ·    #4810    ·    Commentary    ·   Column
    This edition of the IPCS Column, 'Indo-Pacific', is the precis of a larger document titled 'Southeast Asia in 2015', published under the IPCS Forecast 2015 series. Click here to read the full report . One of the mos...
  • Sri Lankan Presidential Election
    The Fall of Rajapaksa: Why Democracies Fail Strongmen
    D Suba Chandran    ·   19 Jan, 2015    ·    #4809    ·    Commentary    
    Last January in 2014, none would have predicted the fall of Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa. At that time, he was gathering momentum politically every passing day; political opposition within Sri Lanka – both inside and outside the ...
  • J&K
    Governor's Rule and PDP's Dilemma
    Shujaat Bukhari    ·   19 Jan, 2015    ·    #4808    ·    Commentary    
    Even after a high voter turnout that was witnessed for the first time in last 28 years, Jammu and Kashmir failed to get a government. Eighteen days after the results to tumultuous assembly elections were declared, political parties could not cobbl...
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