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  • India and Defence Exports: Silver Lining to a Dark Cloud
    C Uday Bhaskar    ·   13 Feb, 2014    ·    #4307    ·    Commentary    
    Defexpo India, held in New Delhi in February, showcased a wide range of land, naval and internal security systems with as many as 624 companies participating - both foreign and Indian.  The 368 foreign companies were drawn from 30 different n...
  • Connecting Asia: South Asia as a Strategic Bridge
    D Suba Chandran    ·   13 Feb, 2014    ·    #4306    ·    Commentary    
    So much is happening around South Asia today; if the region is smart in understanding the nature of these changes and makes use of its potential and geographic location, it could become a strategic bridge between four huge land masses – We...
  • J&K
    Pakistan’s Kashmir dilemma
    Shujaat Bukhari    ·   12 Feb, 2014    ·    #4305    ·    Commentary    
    When Pakistan officially observed February 5 as ‘Kashmir Solidarity Day’ Wednesday last, the atmosphere was more euphoric this time. The main reason could be the transition of power from Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) to Pakista...
  • Assessing Japan-India Relations: A Chinese Perspective
    Bo Zhen    ·   11 Feb, 2014    ·    #4304    ·    Commentary    
    On 27 January 2014, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe ended his three-day visit to India. The visit was important particularly in light of the strenuous ties between Asia’s two top economies over a dispute over islands in the East China S...
  • Al-Qaeda-ISIL Split: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
    Rajeshwari Krishnamurthy    ·   11 Feb, 2014    ·    #4303    ·    Commentary    
    In the first week of February 2014, Ayman al-Zawahiri, the commander-in-chief of the al-Qaeda made a statement disowning the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). Al-Zawahiri, who took charge following former chief Osama bin Laden’s...
  • Middle Kingdom
    China in the Indian Ocean: Competing Priorities
    DS Rajan    ·   10 Feb, 2014    ·    #4302    ·    Commentary    
    A very recent (January 2014) naval drill in China conducted by a three-ship Chinese navy squadron has received wide attention in the world media. The country’s largest amphibious Chinese landing ship – Changbaishan – along with t...
  • The Strategist
    India-Pakistan: Nuclear Risk Reduction Measures
    Vijay Shankar    ·   10 Feb, 2014    ·    #4301    ·    Commentary    ·   Column
    The Problem The problem with nuclear weapons is the complexity of convincing decision-makers that no conceivable advantage can be achieved from a nuclear exchange. As long as one side believes that there is some value to be had through the depl...
  • Nuke Street
    Nuclear Security Summit 2014 and the NTI Index
    Sheel kant Sharma    ·   10 Feb, 2014    ·    #4300    ·    Commentary    ·   Column
    President Obama’s major initiative launched in Washington in 2010 will enter its next stage with the convening of the third Nuclear Security Summit in the Hague. The fourth one is set for Washington in 2016. This process of Nuclear Securit...
  • Eagle Eye
    US in Asia: A 'Non-Alignment' Strategy?
    Chintamani Mahapatra    ·   10 Feb, 2014    ·    #4299    ·    Commentary    ·   Column
    As territorial and maritime disputes in Asia have sparked regional cold wars, the United States appears to have adopted a non-aligned strategy to navigate in troubled political space of the continent.  George Washington and Non-...
  • Can India be Cunning?
    PR Chari    ·   09 Feb, 2014    ·    #4298    ·    Commentary    
    That was the deliberately provocative title given by Kishore Mahbubani to his K. Subrahmanyam Memorial lecture on March 4. In a way the title was  in line with K. Subrahmanyam’s  personality which, as all those who knew him, woul...
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