COMMENTARIES
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Comprehensive Nuclear Agreement with Iran: One Month Endgame
Ayesha Khanyari · 30 Jun, 2014 · #4532 · Commentary
Representatives from the P5+1 will meet their Iranian counterparts in Vienna on 2 July 2014 to continue talks on Tehran’s nuclear programme. Earlier, senior diplomats from both sides met in Brussels on 26 June 2014 for “an intense da...
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IPCS Book Discussion
The Warrior-State: Pakistan in the Contemporary World
Report · 30 Jun, 2014 · #4531 · Commentary
A discussion of Prof TV Paul’s Warrior State: Pakistan in the Contemporary World, organised by the Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies (IPCS), in collaboration with the India International Center (IIC), on 13 June 2014.
Initial Rema...
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Sushma Swaraj in Dhaka
India-Bangladesh: Hope for a New Beginning
Harun ur Rashid · 30 Jun, 2014 · #4530 · Commentary
The 38-hour trip of Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj to Dhaka from 25 June was remarkable for various reasons.
First, it demonstrated the priority the Narendra Modi government places on India’s relations with Ban...
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Rim of the Pacific Exercises (RIMPAC): Thaw in China-US Tensions?
Vijay Sakhuja · 28 Jun, 2014 · #4529 · Commentary
Last week, Hawaii witnessed one of the largest assemblies of Navies for the biennial Rim of the Pacific Exercises (RIMPAC) hosted by the Commander, US Pacific Fleet (PACFLT). Nearly 50 warships, half a dozen submarines, over 200 aircraft from As...
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A stark reality
Youth and Jihad in Kashmir
Shujaat Bukhari · 24 Jun, 2014 · #4528 · Commentary
Last year when I wrote about the boys who had graduated in different streams and joined the “Jehad” in Kashmir and the increasing number of people joining their funeral prayers, many “analysts” responded by saying that it...
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A Four-Fold Approach
Dhaka as the Gateway to India’s Look East Policy
D Suba Chandran · 27 Jun, 2014 · #4527 · Commentary
The visit of the new External Affairs Minister of India Sushma Swaraj to Dhaka is timely and of importance. If pursued with the right spirit sustained momentum, Bangladesh has the potential of becoming a huge success story for the new government...
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View from China
Modi and Sino-Indian Relations
Siwei Liu · 25 Jun, 2014 · #4526 · Commentary
Recently, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi had a very useful and timely India trip, during which he not only held talks with his Indian counterpart Sushma Swaraj but also met with the newly- elected Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Pra...
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IPCS Book Review
Nepal: Globalisation and Identity Politics
Sohan Prasad Sha · 23 Jun, 2014 · #4525 · Commentary
Facing Globalization in the Himalayas: Belonging and the Politics of the Self
G Toffin & J Pfaff-Czarnecka (Eds).
Governance, Conflict and Civic Action-Vol 5, 484 pages
Publisher: SAGE, 2014
There are contesting ideas among academicia...
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Bangladesh-Myanmar Border Skirmishes: Who, What and Why
Dibya Shikha · 20 Jun, 2014 · #4524 · Commentary
In the recently concluded Director General-level conference between Bangladesh and Myanmar in Naypyidaw, although both countries resolved to maintain peace and tranquility on the border – after exchanging gunfire along the border – m...
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J&K
Kashmir missing in Modi’s first-year priorities
Shujaat Bukhari · 19 Jun, 2014 · #4523 · Commentary
When Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif met his Indian counter part Narendra Modi on May 27 in New Delhi, there was no mention of “Kashmir” in the briefing by both sides. Pakistan Foreign Minister Sartaj Aziz did tell the media lat...