COMMENTARIES
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Why India Should Prioritise its Inner-Maritime Regions
Siddharth Anil Nair · 16 Feb, 2021 · #5756 · Commentary
India entered 2021 faced with two security
challenges: a standoff along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) and China’s growing covert presence in the eastern Indian Ocean (EIO). These challenges should signal to
New Delhi the need to develop its...
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2010-2020: Decadal Trends
Global Nuclear Non-Proliferation: Ten Years of Rising Dangers
Manpreet Sethi · 09 Feb, 2021 · #5755 · Commentary
Early 2010s: A Mood of Optimism
The decade of the 2010s dawned with
much nuclear hope and optimism, basking in the glow of President Obama’s Prague speech of
April 2009. The NPT RevCon in May 2010 reflected and added to
this sentiment as...
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2010-2020: Decadal Trends
Cooperation and Contestation in East Asia
Dr Sandip Kumar Mishra · 03 Feb, 2021 · #5754 · Commentary
East
Asia has seen significant changes this past decade: both domestically within
the countries of the region, as well as in their relations with each other.
Three broad trends can be flagged to make sense of the many developments that
have ta...
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The FATF ‘Grey List’ and Pakistan’s Prospects
Katyayinee Richhariya · 29 Jan, 2021 · #5753 · Commentary
On 8 January 2021, a Pakistani court sentenced senior Lashkar-e-Taiba leader, Zaki-ur-Rahman Lakhvi, the
mastermind of the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, to a five-year imprisonment on
terror financing charges. This came weeks ahead of the February...
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2010-2020: Decadal Trends
India’s Internal Security: A Fog of Triumph?
Bibhu Prasad Routray · 28 Jan, 2021 · #5752 · Commentary
Official data on each of India’s
internal conflict theatres for the past successive years have continued to
portray progress towards peace and stability. Guns are falling silent across
conflict theatres and the death count has reduced drastic...
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Why a Digital Geneva Convention on Cyberwarfare Won’t Materialise
Pieter-jan Dockx · 25 Jan, 2021 · #5751 · Commentary
In
December 2020, it was reported that the digital systems of US government
agencies such as the Department of Homeland Security had been infiltrated by
alleged Kremlin-backed hackers. While the full extent of the damage is yet to
be determine...
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The Limits to Sino-Russian Cooperation
Mahima Duggal · 06 Jan, 2021 · #5750 · Commentary
Sino-Russian
ties initially seem a pragmatic alignment of partners. However, several
structural barriers—an asymmetric economic-security calculus,
persisting investment challenges, and significant geopolitical deviations—limit
bilateral co...
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Strategic Space
COVID-19 Mauled 2020—A Nuclear Disaster Would End Time
Manpreet Sethi · 31 Dec, 2020 · #5749 · Commentary · Column
2020
started on a grim note, with the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists deciding
in January to move the minute hand on its clock to 100 seconds to midnight.
This was a reminder of the high level of risk that humanity faced from nuclear
issues ...
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East Asia Compass
Confronting an “Assertive” China: Nearly All Roads Lead to Taiwan
Dr Sandip Kumar Mishra · 28 Dec, 2020 · #5748 · Commentary · Column
China’s disruptive behaviour
through 2020 has increasingly led the international community to become more
vocal about the difficulty of coexisting with a Beijing that is “assertive,”
“irresponsible,’’ and “opaque.” This sentimen...
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India: The Economic Fallout of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Women
Akanksha Khullar · 18 Dec, 2020 · #5747 · Commentary
The COVID-19 pandemic
induced restrictions has plunged the Indian economy into a severe
downturn with disruptions to markets and supply chains, closure of
businesses, limited travel facilities, and constricted international trade. This
has res...
