COMMENTARIES
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IPCS Discussion
Talks with the Taliban: Endgame for the Military, Political Parties and the TTP in Pakistan
Report · 11 Apr, 2014 · #4384 · Commentary
The Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies (IPCS) organised a panel discussion on the talks between the government in Pakistan and the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).
The discussion took place at the IPCS Conference Room, with pa...
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IPCS Discussion
Trends in Federalism and Foreign Policy: The Centre-State Debate
Report · 11 Apr, 2014 · #4383 · Commentary
Prof Onkar Marwah
Distinguished Fellow, IPCS
Today, a number of states of India have become more powerful than they were fifty years ago. This has happened because either the central government has weakened or the states have become more pow...
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Himalayan Frontier
Nepal's Restful Prime Minister
Pramod Jaiswal · 07 Apr, 2014 · #4382 · Commentary · Column
It has been over two months since Sushil Koirala took office as the Prime Minister’s of Nepal. In last two months, Koirala promoted six joint secretaries to secretaries and appointed Damodar Prasad Sharma as the new Chief Justice of the Su...
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Post Afghan Elections
End of the Road for Taliban?
D Suba Chandran · 09 Apr, 2014 · #4381 · Commentary
Undoubtedly the elections in Afghanistan last week to elect the next President is historical. According to initial reports, more than 60 percent of the 12 million electorate took part in the elections; given the security environment and the abilit...
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J&K
‘Law’ of Political Inheritance
Shujaat Bukhari · 08 Apr, 2014 · #4380 · Commentary
Winston Churchill once said: “Politics is not a game, it is earnest business.” That has come true in the South Asian context. By making it a full-time dynastic profession, the political families have turned it into a business, which ...
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Presidential Election: Thus spoke the Afghans
D Suba Chandran · 07 Apr, 2014 · #4378 · Commentary
Given the security and political environment (including the weather and rains) within and outside Afghanistan, the recently held election to usher in their next president is perhaps the most significant democratic poll in the history of the coun...
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East Asia Compass
China’s New Neighbourhood Strategy: Korean and Japnese Reactions
Dr Sandip Kumar Mishra · 07 Apr, 2014 · #4377 · Commentary · Column
It is interesting to track inter-state relations and equations in East Asia in the context of China’s policy of building a ‘Community of Common Destiny’ (CCD). China, after its first official announcement of the concept in 2007...
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Russia: Exploring Energy Markets in East Asia?
Vivek Mishra · 07 Apr, 2014 · #4376 · Commentary
The recent proposal by Britain for a discussion paper on ending reliance on Russian energy supplies appears two pronged, with both long and short term options. In the longer term, ensuring energy security for the 28-nation EU and ending Ukraine&rs...
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US in Asia Pacific
American Endgame in Afghanistan Post-2014
Shreya Upadhyay · 07 Apr, 2014 · #4375 · Commentary
As the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) prepares to pull out of Afghanistan by the end of 2014, it is of significance to assess larger American interests at play in the country and the region. How will the US leverage its resources...
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Maritime Matters
Search and Rescue at Sea: Challenges and Chinese Capabilities
Vijay Sakhuja · 07 Apr, 2014 · #4374 · Commentary · Column
The international search and rescue effort to locate the voice and data recorder referred as the ‘black box’, and debris of the Malaysian Airlines MH 370 have continued relentlessly for nearly four weeks now. The satellite data provi...
