COMMENTARIES
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China and Japan: Will the Twain Never Meet?
Srikanth Kondapalli · 20 Oct, 2014 · #4703 · Commentary
With prospects for a bilateral meeting between Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and China’s President Xi Jinping at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit at Beijing in November brightening, the East Asian security situation m...
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Dhaka Discourse
Bangladesh: Diplomatic Manoeuvres at the UNGA
Delwar Hossain · 20 Oct, 2014 · #4702 · Commentary · Column
The Prime Minister of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina led a 184-member delegation to the 69th UN General Assembly (UNGA) meeting. Significantly, this year has marked the 40th anniversary of Bangladesh’s membership at the UN. Bangladesh was admit...
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Strategic Space
Nasr: Dangers of Pakistan's Short Range Ballistic Missile
Manpreet Sethi · 20 Oct, 2014 · #4701 · Commentary · Column
In April 2011, Pakistan tested a 60 km very short-range ballistic missile called Nasr and claimed it to be nuclear capable. This has since been publicised as the tactical nuclear weapon (TNW) meant to deter India from mounting a conventional milit...
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Indo-Pacific
The ASEAN's Centrality in the Indo-Pacific Region
Shankari Sundararaman · 20 Oct, 2014 · #4700 · Commentary · Column
Over nearly a decade, the concept of the Indo-Pacific has been gaining ground as a term that gives credence to a strategic perspective rather than a well-defined geographic entity. When Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe spoke about the `conflue...
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South Asian Dialectic
Pakistani Taliban and Al Qaeda in Afghanistan: Implications for Asian Security
PR Chari · 20 Oct, 2014 · #4699 · Commentary · Column
Months of deadlock followed a hard fought election in Afghanistan after which both principal contenders - Ashraf Ghani and Abdullah Abdullah - claimed victory, and a uniquely Afghan solution was found. Ghani will be President with Abdullah being...
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Cooperating against the Islamic State: A Nuclear Bonus for Iran?
Majid Izadpanahi · 16 Oct, 2014 · #4698 · Commentary
Since the 1979 revolution, the Iran has accused the US interference in the West Asia as the root of regional instability. But there are cases when Tehran has cooperated with Washington when their interests coincided.
The Islamic State (IS...
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IPCS Discussion
Tactical Nuclear Weapons: Implications of Pakistan's Nuclear Developments
Rajeshwari Krishnamurthy · 16 Oct, 2014 · #4697 · Commentary
On 4 September, 2014, the Instutute of Peace and Conflict Studies organised a panel discussion on Pakistan's Tactical Nuclear Weapons (TNWs). Below is the seminar report of the event, rapporteured by Rajeshwari Krishnamurthy, Research Office...
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Dateline Islamabad
India-Pakistan: Working Boundaries and Lines of Uncontrolled Fire
Salma Malik · 13 Oct, 2014 · #4696 · Commentary · Column
After a much-deliberated stalemate, Afghanistan finally had a new democratic government with a power-sharing arrangement. The signing of the controversial Bilateral Security Agreement (BSA) provides a false sense of security to many who felt tha...
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“China Threat” in South Asia: A Perspective from China
Siwei Liu · 16 Oct, 2014 · #4695 · Commentary
President Xi Jinping’s six-day South Asian trip is over. Apart from a series of bilateral agreements, friendly high-level dialogues and other interactions, the trip also demonstrated the direction of China’s South Asian policy. Indee...
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Petro Pirates and Maritime Security
Pirates Prefer Energy Cargo
Vijay Sakhuja · 14 Oct, 2014 · #4694 · Commentary
Early this month, pirates released the hijacked MT Sunrise 689, a small product tanker bound for Vietnam which went missing soon after it left Singapore. During the captivity that lasted nearly six days, the pirates siphoned 2,000 of the total 5...
