COMMENTARIES
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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...
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Iran: Geostrategic Calculations vis-à-vis Afghanistan
Rajeshwari Krishnamurthy · 07 Mar, 2014 · #4327 · Commentary
With a landmark Afghan presidential election fast approaching, soon to be followed by the Western military withdrawal from the country, Tehran has stepped up efforts towards securing a stable and favourable government in Kabul. Iran’s inte...
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Kunming Attack and Ethnic Tensions
Challenges to the ‘Chinese Nation’ Dream
Geeta Kochhar · 06 Mar, 2014 · #4326 · Commentary
On a March 1, 2014, a group of men launched a deadly knife attack on people at the Kunming Railway station in China, killing 33 people and injuring over 130.. On October 28, 2013, an SUV slammed into a crowd killing two people and injuring 40. B...
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IPCS Special Commentary
Transition in Myanmar: Regional Implications & Future Directions
Ranjit Gupta · 06 Mar, 2014 · #4325 · Commentary
Are the changes underway in Myanmar revolutionary or evolutionary? Since the governmental structure and the methodology of governance in Myanmar since April 2012, when the transition began, represents an utterly drastic change from what had exis...
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Northeast and the Fraught Question of Racism in India
Thangkhanlal Ngaihte · 06 Mar, 2014 · #4324 · Commentary
The death of Nido Taniam, a 19-year old boy from Arunachal Pradesh in Delhi on 29 2014 after a racially-inspired assault has put the issue of racism within India in the spotlight. Historically, India was loath to countenance the fact of racism wit...
