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  • The Hague Nuclear Security Summit: Evaluating Major Achievements
    PR Chari    ·   28 Mar, 2014    ·    #4357    ·    Commentary    
    That  the third  nuclear security summit meeting could be held as scheduled in the Hague on 24-25 March,  attended by 53 nations, must be deemed a minor miracle, considering  the rapidly deteriorating  American-Russian r...
  • IPCS Special Commentary
    The Hague Nuclear Security Summit: Penitent Preachers
    Vijay Shankar    ·   28 Mar, 2014    ·    #4356    ·    Commentary    
    The Nuclear Security Summit (NSS) has a singular sweeping aim: to prevent nuclear terrorism around the Globe. The third of the series that began in 2010 as a sequel to President Obama’s 2009 Prague declaration has proclaimed an incontestab...
  • Peace Talks in India’s Northeast: New Delhi’s Bodo Knot
    Rani P Das    ·   25 Mar, 2014    ·    #4355    ·    Commentary    
    The Government of India’s approach to the prolonged insurgency and agitations in Assam’s Bodo heartland seems to have complicated the Bodo issue further. In the nearly three decades since the Bodoland movement began in 1987 under the l...
  • Afghanistan 2014: Near-Term Political Projections
    Rajeshwari Krishnamurthy    ·   25 Mar, 2014    ·    #4354    ·    Commentary    
    The upcoming months hold several changes for Afghanistan. They can be categorised under politics, security and economics, with implication for both the country, and the region. This article assesses the political aspects of the transition, and a...
  • Iran-Pakistan Pipeline: Is There Scope for Hope?
    Ayesha Khanyari    ·   25 Mar, 2014    ·    #4353    ·    Commentary    
    The stalled Iran-Pakistan (IP) gas pipeline is symptomatic of the reshuffle in the bilateral relations between India and Iran and Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. As Iran shifts its focus towards India, Saudi Arabia has channelled its efforts towards st...
  • China and the Ukraine Crisis: Walking on the Razor’s Edge
    Srikanth Kondapalli    ·   24 Mar, 2014    ·    #4352    ·    Commentary    
    The Ukrainian political crisis, like the earlier crises in Egypt, Libya and Syria, is proving to be a nightmare for China, despite Beijing’s maintenance of a calm stance on the surface. The referendum in Crimea is potentially applicable to...
  • Nuclear Security Summit 2014: The Way Forward
    Arun Vishwanathan    ·   21 Mar, 2014    ·    #4351    ·    Commentary    
    The third edition of the Nuclear Security Summit (NSS) is being held at The Hague on 24-25 March 2014. Leaders and officials from fifty-four countries and three international organisations (IAEA, INTERPOL and the UN) are expected to assemble for...
  • Quality vs Quantity
    The Demographic Dividend
    D Suba Chandran    ·   20 Mar, 2014    ·    #4350    ·    Commentary    
    There have been a plethora of security studies in the recent years – strategizing everything – from environment to human security. The recent addition to this growing literature is on the demographic dividend – as an asset or l...
  • J&K
    Climbing the Wrong Hill
    Shujaat Bukhari    ·   20 Mar, 2014    ·    #4349    ·    Commentary    
    During the past two decades a section of Kashmiri Pandits (KPs) have been looking for a space not only to denigrate but also demonize their erstwhile compatriots—the Kashmiri Muslims, even on unfounded charges. For this they presumably get...
  • US and the Asia-Pacific
    Will Obama Rebalance Further?
    Shreya Upadhyay    ·   20 Mar, 2014    ·    #4348    ·    Commentary    
    How is China and the rest of the Asia-Pacific region responding to the US rebalancing act? Will this affect the original scope and objectives of the US policy? Will the US rebalance its own strategies towards the region further? China’s...
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