COMMENTARIES
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Dateline Islamabad
India-Pakistan: Faces in the Sand
Salma Malik · 09 Jun, 2014 · #4500 · Commentary · Column
Given how the economics-savvy boys in India and Pakistan have initiated their cross-border relations, looking at the next five years skeptically would be unfair. It started with Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif telephoning the then Indian P...
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Nuke Street
The Second Nuclear Age in the Asia Pacific
Sheel kant Sharma · 09 Jun, 2014 · #4499 · Commentary · Column
President Obama’s West Point speech in 2014 reflected a qualified fatigue with internationalist causes. The recent Chinese comment on North Korean threats about an impending test had an interesting term in cautioning its difficult but impo...
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The Strategist
The Perils of Strategic Narcissism
Vijay Shankar · 09 Jun, 2014 · #4498 · Commentary · Column
China’s rise has powered an impulse to military growth and unilateral intervention which in turn evokes anxieties and resistance by players in the same strategic milieu. The paradoxical effect is to undermine its own strategic standing.
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Generalship and the Northeast
Lt. Gen. Arvinder S Lamba · 06 Jun, 2014 · #4497 · Commentary
An article by Thangkhanlal Ngaihte, an independent researcher, draws a negative dimension in its exhortation of linking the appointment of a General to oversee the Northeast-specific ministry in a perspective of Generalship, and alleging that th...
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IPCS Discussion
China’s Foreign Policy Directions Under the New Leadership
Rheanna Mathews · 05 Jun, 2014 · #4496 · Commentary
Report
The Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies (IPCS) organised a panel discussion on the direction of the Chinese foreign policy under the country’s new leadership. The discussion took place at the IPCS Conference Room, and was led...
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J&K
The NC Revamp
Shujaat Bukhari · 05 Jun, 2014 · #4495 · Commentary
When National Conference president Farooq Abdullah put a Karakuli on the head of his son Omar Abdullah to announce his anointment as the new party president on June 23, 2002, he literally called it a day as far as his role in the party is concer...
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Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
BIMSTEC: An Interview with Amb Ranjit Gupta
Leonora Juergens · 04 Jun, 2014 · #4494 · Commentary
The transcript of an interview with Amb Ranjit Gupta, Distinguished Fellow, IPCS, and former Indian Ambassador to Thailand.
Amb Gupta, you have been significantly involved in the formation of the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Te...
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FDI in Defence
Can 100% Foreign Investment Help India’s Defence Sector?
Aakash Brahmachari · 03 Jun, 2014 · #4493 · Commentary
India’s Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion has proposed raising the bar on foreign direct investment (FDI) in India’s defence sector from the current 26 per cent to 74 per cent and possibly 100% in select high-technology a...
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US-China: The Problem with Congagement
Amit Saksena · 03 Jun, 2014 · #4492 · Commentary
Over the past two decades, China has grown exponentially, both in military prowess and economic might. The US, one of the major contributing factors to China’s rise, now realises the importance of countering this advancement. But is its po...
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India’s Northeast and the New DONER Leadership
Thangkhanlal Ngaihte · 03 Jun, 2014 · #4491 · Commentary
In the new BJP-led government that has just been sworn in, Gen VK Singh has been given the charge of Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of the Development of North Eastern Region (DONER), apart from other responsibilities. No...
