COMMENTARIES
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Af-Pak Diary
Mullah Fazlullah: Challenges to the “Eliminate or Extradite” Approach
D Suba Chandran · 07 Jul, 2014 · #4552 · Commentary · Column
Hundreds of militants have been killed ever since the military in Pakistan launched an offensive against the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in the country’s Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) in June 2014. There have also been num...
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Dateline Colombo
Sri Lanka: A New Melody for Nation-building
Asanga Abeyagoonasekera · 07 Jul, 2014 · #4551 · Commentary · Column
The month of June marked the first International Seminar on South Asia Development organised by the Xinhua news agency in Hong Kong, where this author was invited to speak on the topic of Sri Lanka at the centre of the Maritime Silk Road (MSR). ...
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IPCS Discussion
Contemporary Developments in Syria and Iraq
Report · 07 Jul, 2014 · #4550 · Commentary
Initial Remarks
Dr D Suba Chandran
Director, IPCS
• If the international community had addressed the Syrian insurgency at the right time with the right amount of force, would the current situation in Iraq be taking place?
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Maritime Matters
India-EU: Exploring Maritime Convergences
Vijay Sakhuja · 07 Jul, 2014 · #4549 · Commentary · Column
The much awaited European Union Maritime Security Strategy (EUMSS) was approved last month by the General Affairs Council of the European Union (EU). The document builds on the European Commission’s Joint Communication, titled ‘for a...
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Spotlight West Asia
India in Iraq: Need for Better Focus
Ranjit Gupta · 07 Jul, 2014 · #4548 · Commentary · Column
Though Iraq has been a particularly good and politically supportive friend and had episodically been the top oil supplier to India in the past, relations perforce started losing momentum in the wake of the US policies after Iraq’s invasion...
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East Asia Compass
China-South Korea: Changing Dynamics of Regional Politics
Dr Sandip Kumar Mishra · 07 Jul, 2014 · #4547 · Commentary · Column
Chinese President Xi Jinping’s two-day visit to South Korea on 3-4 July 2014 is symbolic of a nascent but important change in East Asian political equations. For the first time, a Chinese President visited South Korea before meeting with t...
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Voice from America
US and the World Cup: Nationalism without Football?
Amit Gupta · 07 Jul, 2014 · #4546 · Commentary
Once every four years Americans discover football - or as they like to call it, soccer. Yet this temporary attraction to the game has little to do with a real understanding of the global sport but more with the ability to project sporting nation...
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Myanmar: Priority for the New Indian Government
Rahul Mishra · 04 Jul, 2014 · #4545 · Commentary
Ever since Narendra Modi assumed office as the Indian Prime Minister, speculations regarding his foreign policy priorities have been rife. Many in the Indian media suggest that since this is the first time Modi is at the helm of central governme...
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The Case for a South Asian Shared Rivers Commission
India, China and the MoU on Brahmaputra
Wasbir Hussain · 03 Jul, 2014 · #4544 · Commentary
India and China signed three Memoranda of Understanding (MoU) during the Indian Vice President Hamid Ansari’s recent five-day visit to Beijing from 26 June– 1 July. One of them was on the ‘flood data’ of the Brahmaputra R...
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IPCS Discussion
China’s Maritime March West
Report · 03 Jul, 2014 · #4543 · Commentary
Admiral (Retd.) Pradeep Kaushiva
Director, National Maritime Foundation
Given China’s geographical location, it is possible for China to access the world via three different directions: eastwards across the Pacific, westwards acros...
