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  • East Asia Compass
    Obama’s Visit: Deciphering US’ Regional Intentions
    Dr Sandip Kumar Mishra    ·   05 May, 2014    ·    #4424    ·    Commentary    ·   Column
    The four-nation trip made by US President Barack Obama in April 2014 could be interpreted in many different ways. It was important as in October 2013, Obama was not able to participate in the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit and man...
  • Dateline Colombo
    Ethnic Reconciliation: Learning from the Rwandan Experience
    Asanga Abeyagoonasekera    ·   05 May, 2014    ·    #4423    ·    Commentary    ·   Column
    In May 2014, the nation of Rwanda commemorates the twentieth year of its brutal massacre. In one of the most cruel and inhumane moments of history to date, the Hutus massacred 800,000 to 1 million Tutsis as well as moderate Hutus within a hundr...
  • Himalayan Frontier
    Nepal: Challenges to Constitution-Making
    Pramod Jaiswal    ·   05 May, 2014    ·    #4422    ·    Commentary    ·   Column
    The Unified Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist (UCPN-M), the single largest party from the first Constituent Assembly (CA) election, is in a dilemma after suffering a setback in the second CA election. The party seems to have lost direction and is ...
  • The Oman Gas Pipeline: India’s Underwater Energy Supply Chain
    Vijay Sakhuja    ·   05 May, 2014    ·    #4421    ·    Commentary    
    Energy hungry India has invested enormous political and diplomatic capital in gas pipelines such as the Iran-Pakistan-India IPI and the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) pipelines, from Iran and Turkmenistan. However, these projects...
  • Bangladesh-US: Long Term Agendas over Short Term Fall-Outs
    Dibya Shikha    ·   30 Apr, 2014    ·    #4420    ·    Commentary    
    The Bangladesh-US bilateral has seen troubled times in the recent period. What are the current deadlocks between the two? Is there scope for rapprochement in the relationship? Troubles in the Bilateral Several issues have created a disco...
  • J&K
    Jamaat-e-Islami: Limiting its Ambitions or Learning from the Past?
    Ayesha Khanyari    ·   30 Apr, 2014    ·    #4419    ·    Commentary    
    At a recent meeting chaired by the Ameer-e-Jamaat (Chief of Jamaat-e-Islami Jammu & Kashmir) Muhammad Abdullah Wani, “Elections,” he said, “is a non-issue for Jamaat-e-Islami. It will follow its practice of not taking any d...
  • Ethnic Fault-Lines in Assam: A Separate Bodoland?
    Leonora Juergens    ·   30 Apr, 2014    ·    #4418    ·    Commentary    
    Prior to the third Phase of the 2014 Lok Sabha Elections on 24 April, Chief Minister of Assam Tarun Gogoi claimed that after prolonged agitations in Assam’s Bodo heartland, the situation had returned to normal. This was apparently due to the...
  • US in Asia Pacific
    India-US: DTTI and India's Quest for Self Reliance
    Shreya Upadhyay    ·   30 Apr, 2014    ·    #4417    ·    Commentary    
    A recent SIPRI report states that India continues to be the world’s largest arms importer while the US, the biggest supplier.  Though it does not paint a happy picture about the ‘patron-client’ relationship,...
  • India and No First Use: Does ‘Calculated Ambiguity’ Help?
    Ruhee Neog    ·   30 Apr, 2014    ·    #4416    ·    Commentary    
    Since the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) released its election manifesto that promises to “study in detail India’s nuclear doctrine, and revise and update it, to make it relevant to challenges of current times,” and Prime Ministe...
  • India-China: A Water War over the Brahmaputra?
    Roomana Hukil    ·   30 Apr, 2014    ·    #4415    ·    Commentary    
    Recently, Claude Arpi, renowned scholar on China wrote about how China’s aspirations to divert the waters of the Brahmaputra River were feeding into mounting disagreements between New Delhi and Beijing. China has consistently been moving a...
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