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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 ...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Spotlight West Asia
    Nuclear Iran: Will Obama Succeed?
    Ranjit Gupta    ·   07 Apr, 2014    ·    #4373    ·    Commentary    ·   Column
    Even though Iran had signed the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty in 1967, it had been pursuing a clandestine nuclear programme since the mid-1980s, which became public knowledge in 2002 through defectors. The program was put on fast forward durin...
  • China’s New Neighbourhood Strategy: 'Community of Common Destiny'
    Geeta Kochhar    ·   05 Apr, 2014    ·    #4372    ·    Commentary    
    “Community with common destiny” (Mingyun gongtongti) seems to be the new slogan in China’s neighbourhood diplomacy. This needs to be explored; what common destiny is China envisaging or is it planning to engage in serious confr...
  • Political space of religious parties
    Importance of Jamat-e-Islami
    D Suba Chandran    ·   04 Apr, 2014    ·    #4371    ·    Commentary    
    Last week, there was an important election in Pakistan. Sirajul Haq was elected as the new Amir of the Jamaat-e-Islami for the next five years, replacing the controversial – Syed Munawar Hasan. For Sirajul, it was actually a three cornered c...
  • Jammu and Kashmir in the Indian General Elections
    Lost in the Bargain
    Shujaat Bukhari    ·   04 Apr, 2014    ·    #4370    ·    Commentary    
    The impending electoral battle that will culminate by the middle of May is not only interesting at the national level where the race for power is being watched keenly by Indians as well as the international community, but in the context of Jammu...
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