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  • Dhaka Discourse
    Bangladesh in Global Forums: Diplomacy vs. Domestic Politics
    Delwar Hossain    ·   17 Nov, 2014    ·    #4739    ·    Commentary    ·   Column
    Perhaps for the first time Bangladesh has achieved a new feat in the conduct of its diplomacy. This time it is not successful bilateral visits to major powers such as Russia or China neither the pursuit of Look East Policy, nor the Dhaka-Washing...
  • Strategic Space
    Global Nuclear Disarmament: The Humanitarian Consequences Route
    Manpreet Sethi    ·   17 Nov, 2014    ·    #4738    ·    Commentary    ·   Column
    The tenacity of nuclear weapons to continue to exist is evident. At the end of the Cold War, many wrote obituaries claiming that these weapons would soon be the “detritus of the Cold War.” Nothing however, could have been further from ...
  • Using Defence for Development: New Policy Options for India
    Bhartendu Kumar Singh    ·   13 Nov, 2014    ·    #4737    ·    Commentary    
    Defence and development have remained watertight compartments in India’s national security discourse and are largely perceived within the ‘guns versus butter debate’. Both compete for the scarce resources and hesitate to reach ...
  • UNSC Resolution 2178
    Fighting Foreign Fighters: New Legislations
    Tuva Julie Engebrethsen Smith    ·   13 Nov, 2014    ·    #4736    ·    Commentary    
    Over the course of this year, the threat of Islamist terror changed dramatically for the worse. 13,000 people who do not belong either to Syria, or Iraq, now fight for the terrorist group, the Islamic State (IS) in its battles in Syria and Iraq....
  • Maritime Silk Road: Increasing Chinese Inroads into the Maldives
    Srikanth Kondapalli    ·   13 Nov, 2014    ·    #4735    ·    Commentary    
    Chinese President Xi Jinping’s September 2014 visit to the Maldives was his first visit to South Asia, indicating to the balance of power dimension with India. Through the joint press communiqué on September 15, China secured the Ma...
  • Regional Economy
    18th SAARC Summit: An Economic Agenda
    Amita Batra    ·   11 Nov, 2014    ·    #4734    ·    Commentary    ·   Column
    The 18th SAARC summit is scheduled to be held in Kathmandu, Nepal, in a little less than three weeks from now. The theme of the summit is ‘deeper integration for peace and prosperity’.  Deeper integration, in addition to the cre...
  • Eagle Eye
    Has President Obama Turned Lame Duck?
    Chintamani Mahapatra    ·   10 Nov, 2014    ·    #4733    ·    Commentary    ·   Column
    The US’ mid-term Congressional election result was, in the perception of the Republican Party – that came to control the US Congress for the first time in last eight years – a referendum on incumbent President Barack Obama&rsqu...
  • The Strategist
    Of Lawrence, Sykes-Picot and al-Baghdadi
    Vijay Shankar    ·   10 Nov, 2014    ·    #4732    ·    Commentary    ·   Column
    Islamic State's Caliph, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in a July 2014 speech at the Great Mosque of al-Nuri in Mosul vowed that "this blessed advance will not stop until we hit the last nail in the coffin of the Sykes-Picot conspiracy." A...
  • Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh: Designs and Network in India
    N Manoharan    ·   07 Nov, 2014    ·    #4731    ·    Commentary    
    In the wake of Burdwan blast, the Indian Home Minister Rajnath Singh recently ordered an immediate neutralisation of the Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) terror modules in India. What is the JMB? What are its designs and network in India? ...
  • India-Sri Lanka: Time to Settle the Fishermen Issue
    N Manoharan    ·   04 Nov, 2014    ·    #4730    ·    Commentary    
    The recent death sentences issued by a Sri Lankan court to five Indian fishermen on drug-trafficking charges has once again highlighted the urgent need for finding a durable solution to the fishermen issue between India and Sri Lanka. The var...
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