COMMENTARIES
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IPCS Debate
Responding to Pakistan’s Tactical Nuclear Weapons: A Strategy for India
Manpreet Sethi · 18 Jan, 2014 · #4263 · Commentary
In Pakistan’s nuclear strategy, the primary task of its nuclear weapons is not to deter India’s nuclear weapons, but to avoid an engagement with a superior military capability. Rawalpindi is aware of the risk of having to confront In...
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India-Sri Lanka: Conflict over Fishing Rights
Kuhan Madhan · 16 Jan, 2014 · #4262 · Commentary
The conflict between the Sri Lankan and Indian Tamil fisher communities resonates with the larger ethnic struggles of the Tamil community in Sri Lanka. The civil war which ran into three decades stifled Sri Lankan fishing activity, and this crea...
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Dhaka Discourse
Bangladesh Post Elections 2014: Redefining Domestic Politics?
Delwar Hossain · 16 Jan, 2014 · #4261 · Commentary · Column
The 10th Parliamentary elections were held in Bangladesh on 5 January 2014 against the backdrop of the opposition alliance’s boycott and blockade programme, amidst a whirl of apprehensions, tension and violence. The boycott of the major op...
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Bangladesh Post Elections 2014: What Went Wrong?
Harun ur Rashid · 15 Jan, 2014 · #4260 · Commentary
Since 1991 the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has either formed the government or the opposition in parliament. For the first time, BNP’s will not have a parliamentary presence because the party boycotted the January 2014 parliamentary...
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Middle Kingdom
China-Japan Friction: How can India Respond?
DS Rajan · 13 Jan, 2014 · #4259 · Commentary
The current trends make clear that tensions between China and Japan on political and strategic issues are increasing day by day. It is natural that Asia-Pacific nations, which have a big stake in guaranteeing regional stability and prosperity, a...
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Seminar Report
Conflict Early Warning: Contemporary Regional Environment & Implications for J&K
Ayesha Khanyari · 13 Jan, 2014 · #4258 · Commentary
Session I: Conflict Early Warning - Regional Security Environment
Chair: PR Chari, Visiting Professor, IPCS
Iran Nuclear Deal and Regional Security
Amb Ranjit Gupta
Former Indian Ambassador to Oman
The interim nuclear agreement is a di...
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India-US Relations: Khobragade Case Tests India's Resilence
C Uday Bhaskar · 13 Jan, 2014 · #4257 · Commentary
On 10 January, Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade, till recently the deputy consul general in New York returned to Delhi after being criminally indicted by a US court in a high-octane, hyper-visible visa fraud case related to her domestic maid t...
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The Strategist
Strategic Non-Nuclear Weapons: An Essential Consort to a Doctrine of No First Use
Vijay Shankar · 13 Jan, 2014 · #4256 · Commentary · Column
Politico-Military thought often harbours a puzzling phenomenon when it organises concepts and institutions in a mosaic of sometimes antithetical notions. Contrary ideas are indeed intrinsic to the art of political sagacity, but when form is defi...
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Nuke Street
Nuclear Power: An Annual Report Card
Sheel kant Sharma · 13 Jan, 2014 · #4255 · Commentary · Column
The global nuclear power scenario showed signs in 2013 of gradually emerging from the post-Fukushima freeze. The impact of Fukushima remained still formidable in Japan as the year saw the trickle of persistent bad news from the Daichi units in J...
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Eagle Eye
Indo-US Strategic Partnership Post Khobragade: The Long Shadow
Chintamani Mahapatra · 13 Jan, 2014 · #4254 · Commentary · Column
The Devyani Khobragade episode that took place in the backdrop of a strong strategic cooperation between the two countries has terribly hurt the Indian government and the people alike. The diplomatic discord between India and the US over the ind...
