COMMENTARIES
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US and Asia-Pacific
Pivot, Rebalance and What Next?
D Suba Chandran · 13 Mar, 2014 · #4337 · Commentary
The American strategy towards the Asia Pacific is facing serious challenges. What started as a new “pivot” to Asia and later shifted to a “rebalance” now needs serious re-adjustment. Not because the American strategy is p...
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J&K
Of Sedition and Cricket
Shujaat Bukhari · 13 Mar, 2014 · #4336 · Commentary
When India played against West Indies in Srinagar on October 13, 1983, I vividly remember how star batsman Sunil Gavaskar felt awkward when the spectators were carrying long posters of Imran Khan in their hands. He just waved at them and gesture...
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TAPI Pipeline: Expected by 2017?
Roomana Hukil · 12 Mar, 2014 · #4335 · Commentary
Recent talks by the Indian Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Veerappa Moily, on the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas pipeline project and China taking over the chief controllership of the pipeline project from the US has r...
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Indian Navy: Responding to Perceptions of Being ‘All at Sea’
C Uday Bhaskar · 10 Mar, 2014 · #4334 · Commentary
A tragic industrial accident occurred on 07 March on a naval warship under construction in the Mazagon Docks, Mumbai, resulting in the death of a naval officer. The fire-fighting equipment on board the Kolkata class destroyer was being tested and ...
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Eagle Eye
US-China Cold Confrontation: New Paradigm of Asian Security
Chintamani Mahapatra · 10 Mar, 2014 · #4333 · Commentary · Column
The US Secretary of State John Kerry’s recent visit to China exemplified a complex dynamics of relations between the existing superpower and an aspiring one.
The US’ “Manifest Destiny” and China’s “Middle Kingd...
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Nuke Street
Ukraine: Implications for Global Nuclear Diplomacy
Sheel kant Sharma · 10 Mar, 2014 · #4332 · Commentary · Column
The news stories of the past week are a powerful throwback to an era to which we thought the world bid goodbye in the 1990s – the mutually opposing stance of Russia and the West on the developments in Ukraine, Russian troops in Crimea and ...
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The Strategist
India-Pakistan-China: Nuclear Policy and Deterrence Stability
Vijay Shankar · 10 Mar, 2014 · #4331 · Commentary · Column
“Lift not the painted veil which those who live
Call life:………behind, lurk Fear
And Hope…”
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Cold War Mantra
In September 1950, responding to a directive from the President of ...
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Afghanistan
Chinese Energy Explorations in Afghanistan: A Case Study
Madhavi Chakravarti · 10 Mar, 2014 · #4330 · Commentary
China’s energy demand has increased manifold in the past decade. The US Energy Information Administration (EIA) predicts that in the coming years, China will account for one-third of the world’s energy consumption. This quest for ene...
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Assessing Japan-India Relations: A Japanese Perspective
Tomoko Kiyota · 07 Mar, 2014 · #4329 · Commentary
Since the Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori visited New Delhi in August 2000, Japan-India relations have changed dramatically. While only four Japanese Prime Ministers visited India from 1957 till 1999, six Japanese Prime Ministers and over f...
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Assessing Japan-India Relations: An Indian Perspective
Shamshad A Khan · 07 Mar, 2014 · #4328 · Commentary
While it would be difficult to not account for the China factor in Indian strategic thinking especially with regard to the 2006 India-Japan global and strategic partnership, to assume that China is the prime reason for India and Japan&rsqu...
