COMMENTARIES
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India-Bangladesh LBA: Setting the Right Tone
Saumitra Mohan · 09 Dec, 2014 · #4767 · Commentary
“We can change history but not geography,” India’s former Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee had famously said. But this basic common sense has often eluded the movers and shakers of international politics, thereby resulting i...
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The Strategist
Maritime Combat Power in the Indo-Pacific
Vijay Shankar · 08 Dec, 2014 · #4766 · Commentary · Column
Instantaneous Intimidation
Both Julian Corbett and Admiral of the Fleet Sergei Goroshkov had an astute perspective of the importance of a theory for the application of Combat Power. Theory, as Julian Corbett put it, “…be regard...
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Dateline Colombo
Sri Lanka: Making a Case for Change
Asanga Abeyagoonasekera · 03 Dec, 2014 · #4765 · Commentary · Column
The final month of the year 2014 began with the news of Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak. He was found not guilty of the massacre of civilians who protested for his overthrow in the 2011 Arab Spring. Society’s expectation for a total change...
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Maritime Matters
India and Maritime Security: Do More
Vijay Sakhuja · 01 Dec, 2014 · #4764 · Commentary · Column
Six years ago, in November 2008, a group of Pakistan-based terrorists landed at unsecured waterfronts in Mumbai, the financial capital of India, and attacked public places such as hotels, restaurants, and a railway station. Although the Indian s...
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East Asia Compass
Abe-Jinping Summit Meet: A Thaw in China-Japan Relations?
Dr Sandip Kumar Mishra · 01 Dec, 2014 · #4763 · Commentary · Column
After almost two years of the election of Shinzo Abe as the Prime Minister of Japan, he and and Chinese President Xi Jinping met for the first time at a summit meet on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) gathering in Be...
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Af-Pak Diary
Resetting Kabul-Islamabad Relations: Three Key Issues
D Suba Chandran · 01 Dec, 2014 · #4762 · Commentary · Column
In November 2014, the new President of Afghanistan, Ashraf Ghani, made his maiden visit to Pakistan, one that is being projected as a “breakthrough” in the bilateral relations between the two countries. Only recently, the renowned in...
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Voice from America
China's Global Ambition: Need to Emulate Germany
Amit Gupta · 01 Dec, 2014 · #4761 · Commentary
In 1972, Richard Nixon and Mao Zedong signed the Shanghai communique that resulted in a simple but brilliant bargain between the US and China. The US agreed to recognise China and give up propping up the regime in Taipei as the legitimate govern...
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Looking East
India-China: Securitising Water
Wasbir Hussain · 01 Dec, 2014 · #4760 · Commentary · Column
A day after China commissioned the biggest hydro-power plant in Tibet on 23 November 2014, India named National Security Adviser (NSA) Ajit Doval as its Special Representative on the boundary talks with Beijing. This means the boundary dialogue ...
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The China Model
Rise India, avoid regional pitfalls
D Suba Chandran · 26 Nov, 2014 · #4759 · Commentary
Is India today in a situation where China was fifteen years ago, in terms of well poised for a global take off? Are there lessons that India could learn from how China pursued its political and economic growth widely referred as a “peacefu...
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J&K
Article 370 Bandwagon
Shujaat Bukhari · 27 Nov, 2014 · #4758 · Commentary
On December 1, 2013, Prime Minister Narendra Modi (then Gujarat Chief Minister) created a stir when he called for a debate on Article 370. He was addressing a public meeting in Jammu and surprised one and all with the ostensible departure from h...
