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  • US-Afghanistan: Implications of the Bilateral Security Agreement (BSA)
    Rajeev Agarwal    ·   06 Feb, 2014    ·    #4293    ·    Commentary    
    The debate on the signing of the Bilateral Security Agreement (BSA) between Afghanistan and the US has been reignited after the State of the Union address by the US President on in January 2014. While the US is insisting on signing it at the ear...
  • China: From Investment to Consumption-Led Growth
    Tilak Jha    ·   06 Feb, 2014    ·    #4292    ·    Commentary    
    Current trends suggest China’s slow march towards becoming a consumption-led economy, balancing what some economists term irreconcilable but inevitable in China’s case: growth and reform. Chinese GDP grew by 7.7 per cent in 2013 &ndash...
  • US and Asia Pacific
    Is the Rebalancing Merely Symbolic?
    Venkat Lokanathan    ·   04 Feb, 2014    ·    #4291    ·    Commentary    
    With the US stepping up effort towards its Asian rebalancing strategy, three fundamental elements must be understood:  Are the US strategic lenses now shifting away from Europe to Asia? Is Asia the playground for the next Great Game?  ...
  • Af-Pak Diary
    Taliban Talks and the Four Horsemen: Between Peace and Apocalypse
    D Suba Chandran    ·   03 Feb, 2014    ·    #4290    ·    Commentary    ·   Column
    The previous article in this column discussed the talks about talks with the Pakistani Taliban, and Sami-ul-Haq being projected as the interlocutor between the State and the Teherik-e-Taliban (TTP). Since the previous colum...
  • Seminar Report
    Contemporary East Asia
    Angana Guha Roy    ·   03 Feb, 2014    ·    #4289    ·    Commentary    
    Dr Sandip Mishra Assistant Professor, Department of East Asian Studies, University of Delhi Perspectives on South Korea can be observed at three levels: domestic, peninsular and regional. At the domestic level, controversy related to the presi...
  • Himalayan Frontier
    Constituent Assembly-II: Rifts Emerging
    Pramod Jaiswal    ·   03 Feb, 2014    ·    #4288    ·    Commentary    ·   Column
    In the words of Aristotle, “Well begun is half done.” However, the second Constituent Assembly (CA) of Nepal is getting hiccups right from the beginning. The political parties do not seem to have learned much from the past. Though al...
  • East Asia Compass
    Japan: Implications of Indiscriminate Assertiveness
    Dr Sandip Kumar Mishra    ·   03 Feb, 2014    ·    #4287    ·    Commentary    ·   Column
    Shinjo Abe’s unrelenting tough approach towards China is arguably the second most important development in recent years in East Asia after the growing military might of China. There is lots of support across the region for his policy of &l...
  • Maritime Matters
    China in the Indian Ocean: Deep Sea Forays
    Vijay Sakhuja    ·   03 Feb, 2014    ·    #4286    ·    Commentary    ·   Column
    China’s maritime ambitions are expanding and it is making forays into the deep seas beyond its waters. The State Oceanic Administration (SOA) has drawn plans to build scientific research vessels and mother ships for submersibles. Further, ...
  • Spotlight West Asia
    Syria Today: Is Regime Change the Answer?
    Ranjit Gupta    ·   03 Feb, 2014    ·    #4285    ·    Commentary    ·   Column
    There are three aspects of the Syrian imbroglio: First, what was originally a political struggle has become a progressively more devastating civil war. Second, those fighting against the Assad regime have fragmented into several distinct and con...
  • IPCS Debate
    Federalism and Foreign Policy: Limits of the Political-Institutional Framework in India
    Zaad Mahmood    ·   01 Feb, 2014    ·    #4284    ·    Commentary    
    The Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies has initiated a timely academic discussion on the dynamics of foreign policy in response to evolving federalism in India. The first instalment in this exercise is PR Chari’s Limits of Federalism ...
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