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  • Why India Needs an Outcome Budget for Defence
    Bhartendu Kumar Singh    ·   10 Dec, 2014    ·    #4769    ·    Commentary    
    Outcome budgets have emerged as the toast in the financial administration under the Union Government, as made evident recently in the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s interactive session with the secretaries to the Government of India...
  • EU-India: Modi and Expectations of Change
    Tuva Julie Engebrethsen Smith    ·   10 Dec, 2014    ·    #4768    ·    Commentary    
    The EU-India bilateral partnership dates back to the 1960s, but it was at the 5th India-EU Summit at The Hague in 2004, that the relationship was upgraded to a ‘Strategic Partnership’, further enhancing ties. It is a relationship bui...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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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