COMMENTARIES
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US in Asia Pacific
Rebalancing: Australia's Middle Way Approach
Obja Borah Hazarika · 14 May, 2014 · #4439 · Commentary
The US...
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US in Asia Pacific
Rebalancing: China’s Concerns and Responses
Gaurav Kumar Jha · 14 May, 2014 · #4438 · Commentary
The US, which is currently winding up its operations from Afghanistan, calls the restructuring and reallocation of its resources towards the Asia Pacific as the ...
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US in Asia Pacific
Rebalancing: Nature of New Alliances
Amrita Banerjee · 14 May, 2014 · #4437 · Commentary
The post-War order in Asia has rested on the presence and predictability of the US power anchored in a network of military alliances and partnerships. While the countries in the region welcomed this originally, today, these equations have drasti...
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US in Asia Pacific
Rebalancing: An Instrument of Economic Diplomacy
Urbi Das · 14 May, 2014 · #4436 · Commentary
After prolonged engagements in Afghanistan and Iraq, the US has finally made a move to renew its commitment towards Asia, which has always been an arena of US strategic and economic interest. The Asian rebalancing strategy highlights the current...
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US in Asia Pacific
Rebalancing: Where Does India Figure?
Monish Tourangbam · 14 May, 2014 · #4435 · Commentary
Although the US government has tried to soften the China element in its rebalancing strategy, it remains ubiquitous, with Beijing undoubtedly seeing it as a ‘China containment’ policy. The centrality of India’s role in this str...
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Media in Pakistan: Divided They Fall
Rajeshwari Krishnamurthy · 13 May, 2014 · #4434 · Commentary
The recent unsuccessful attempt to assassinate Pakistani journalist Hamid Mir in Karachi opened a can of worms vis-à-vis the complexities in the relationship the Pakistani media shares with State and non-State actors.
That Pakistani me...
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Dateline Islamabad
India-Pakistan: Nuclear Weapons and Crisis Diplomacy
Salma Malik · 12 May, 2014 · #4432 · Commentary · Column
18 May, 2014, will mark the 40th anniversary of India going nuclear. ‘Buddha smiled’ mightily for the first time, in the scorching desert of Pokhran, India, in May 1974 and then again, in 1998. In reciprocation, Pakistan too entered ...
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The Strategist
The Chilling Prospects of Nuclear Devices at Large
Vijay Shankar · 12 May, 2014 · #4431 · Commentary · Column
During the Cold War, the Soviet Union produced over one thousand tons of weapon grade plutonium and highly enriched uranium. By 1986 its stockpile numbered 45,000 warheads; it was poorly inventoried; spread across the Republics with fissionable ...
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Eagle Eye
US’ Frantic Effort to Make the Rebalancing Strategy Work
Chintamani Mahapatra · 12 May, 2014 · #4430 · Commentary · Column
Since late 2011, the Obama administration has been repeatedly trumpeting a new strategy to sustain and strengthen the US’s interests in the Asia-Pacific.
First, then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton published an article high...
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Real Threat to Sharif and Pakistan
Imran Khan, Not Taliban
D Suba Chandran · 07 May, 2014 · #4429 · Commentary
It is deja vu in Pakistan. In a matter of month, there has been a dramatic change in the political scenario in terms of relationship between the major institutions and actors within the country.
Consider the following developments and com...
