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  • Myanmar: How Free is the Contemporary Media?
    Aparupa Bhattacherjee    ·   30 Jun, 2014    ·    #4534    ·    Commentary    
    In April 2013, for the first time in Myanmar, private newspapers were displayed in the newspaper stalls along with the state-owned newspapers that had not been censored by the Junta. In August 2012, President Thein Sein had announced the removal...
  • Nepal and Ethnic Federalism: The Insufficiency of the Maoist Model
    Subin Nepal    ·   30 Jun, 2014    ·    #4533    ·    Commentary    
    The last few years have seen a great rise in the discussion surrounding state restructuring in Nepal. At its very core has been the issue of ethnic federalism. First touted by the Unified Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist (UCPN-M) in their agenda ...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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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