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  • Dhaka Discourse
    India-Bangladesh: Enhancing Ties through a ‘Power Corridor’
    Delwar Hossain    ·   21 Apr, 2014    ·    #4394    ·    Commentary    ·   Column
    The issue of a ‘power corridor’ has sparked a new debate in Bangladesh-India bilateral relations. Bangladesh has agreed in principle to provide India a ‘power corridor’ to help its neighbour link its north eastern and nor...
  • Strategic Space
    India and No First Use: Preventing Deterrence Breakdown
    Manpreet Sethi    ·   21 Apr, 2014    ·    #4393    ·    Commentary    ·   Column
    Several recent writings, including in the context of a possible revision of the Indian nuclear doctrine as mentioned in the BJP manifesto, have mentioned the need for a reconsideration of the no first use (NFU) principle. Many argue that India&r...
  • South Asian Dialectic
    India and No First Use: The Doctrinal Conundrum
    PR Chari    ·   21 Apr, 2014    ·    #4392    ·    Commentary    ·   Column
    One can only be bemused by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s exhortation while inaugurating a recent conference on nuclear disarmament that the need was to establish a global no-first-use convention relating to nuclear weapons. His relevant ...
  • Iran-Pakistan: Time for Realpolitik over Riyal Politics
    Rajeshwari Krishnamurthy    ·   16 Apr, 2014    ·    #4391    ·    Commentary    
    Although  the Jaish al-Adl (JA), a terrorist group that primarily operates from Pakistan’s Balochistan and Iran’s Sistan Baluchestan provinces, released four of the five Iranian border guards it had abducted and held captive in Pa...
  • Is Bangladesh’s foreign policy becoming India and Russia-centric?
    Harun ur Rashid    ·   15 Apr, 2014    ·    #4390    ·    Commentary    
    On 27 March, Bangladesh abstained from voting at the UN General Assembly resolution on Russia’s annexation of Crimea. While 100 countries voted in favour of the resolution, 11 opposed it. Bangladesh, alongside 57 others abstained, and even...
  • Oman's Duqm Port and US Exit from Afghanistan
    Vijay Sakhuja    ·   14 Apr, 2014    ·    #4389    ·    Commentary    
    The US is keenly following developments in Duqm, an Omani port overlooking the Indian Ocean, and a number of US defense, military and civilian personnel have visited Oman in this connection. British Royal Navy ships have called at Duqm, and in 2...
  • Nuke Street
    Iran Nuclear Deal: Regional Shadows
    Sheel kant Sharma    ·   14 Apr, 2014    ·    #4388    ·    Commentary    ·   Column
    There are indications of further substantive progress in P5 plus Germany’s negotiations with Iran in the latest round in Vienna. Iran has shown readiness and given plans to change the design of the Arak research reactor to drastically reduce...
  • Eagle Eye
    US, Ukraine and the End of Unipolarity
    Chintamani Mahapatra    ·   14 Apr, 2014    ·    #4387    ·    Commentary    ·   Column
    When Ukraine became a sovereign independent republic following the Soviet disintegration, a unipolar world order was born. Now with Crimea’s secession from Ukraine and the annexation to Russia, the death of the unipolar world seems certain...
  • Dateline Islamabad
    Elections in India and Afghanistan: Perspective from Pakistan
    Salma Malik    ·   14 Apr, 2014    ·    #4386    ·    Commentary    ·   Column
    A recent trip to New Delhi brought forth some interesting trends and comparisons. Gripped with election fever, Indian voters appeared to be facing the same dilemma their Pakistani counterparts did a year ago. Reminiscent of the May 2013 Pakistan...
  • The Strategist
    MH370 and China's Anti-Access Area Denial Strategy
    Vijay Shankar    ·   14 Apr, 2014    ·    #4385    ·    Commentary    ·   Column
    fThe mystery of the missing Malaysian Airlines MH 370 continues to confound. Was it a sudden catastrophic end to an ill-fated flight or was it a failure of surveillance that led to a controlled and purposeful disappearance of a marked commercial...
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