COMMENTARIES
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India and Pakistan: Azm-e-Nau as a Response to the Cold Start
Ali Ahmed · 28 Jul, 2013 · #4056 · Commentary
The Pakistani Army has just completed its summer war games, Azm Nau IV. The press release has it that with the Azm-e-Nau series of exercises held since 2009, Pakistan has arrived at an answer to India’s Cold Start. Its distraction so far w...
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Afghanistan: Is The Absence of War a Substantial Condition for Peace?
Priyashree Andley · 26 Jul, 2013 · #4055 · Commentary
The post-Cold War period has witnessed a significant shift in the nature of conflict. The number of internal conflicts increased and the intensity of behaviour of parties has undergone change. The number of actors involved increased as various p...
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Bo Xilai: China's Trial of the Century
Namrata Hasija · 25 Jul, 2013 · #4054 · Commentary
Bo Xilai has been formally charged with bribery, embezzlement and abuse of power today according to Jinan City People’s Procuratorate in east China’s Shandong province. The indictment paper delivered to the Jinan City Intermediate Pe...
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Doha Dialogue, Obama’s Zero Option and the Afghan Future: Advantage Taliban
D Suba Chandran · 25 Jul, 2013 · #4053 · Commentary
Obama has floated another Zero Option (remember the earlier Prague speech on global nuclear disarmament that won him the Nobel?), this time on the number of American troops to stay in Afghanistan after 2014. This statement, whether bluff or thre...
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India: Al Qaeda's Call to Muslim Youth
Bibhu Prasad Routray · 24 Jul, 2013 · #4052 · Commentary
Its appellation bears close resemblance to a pre-existing evangelical video. On July 23, Al Qaeda's media arm, As-Sahab, released the English translation of a video statement it had posted in June 2013 calling upon the Indian Muslims to join...
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China and the US: Fifth Strategic and Economic Dialogue
Teshu Singh · 24 Jul, 2013 · #4051 · Commentary
The fifth annual China-US Strategic and Economic Dialogue (S&ED) was held in Washington D.C on 10-11 July 2013. Notably, the groundwork for the meeting was already done during the Xi-Obama meeting and further cemented by an article written b...
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J&K: Land grab of a different kind
Shujaat Bukhari · 24 Jul, 2013 · #4050 · Commentary
A high-level panel of state Legislative Council headed by its chairman Amrit Malhotra was in Delhi last week. On the face of it, it was not a pleasure trip as is attributed to all such committees of state legislature that take up visits outside th...
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Myanmar: Drug Politics and Democratic Transition
Yves-Marie Rault · 24 Jul, 2013 · #4049 · Commentary
Lo Hsing Han’s funeral ceremony, on 17 July, was probably not any different from that of Vito Corleone, the Mafia boss depicted in Coppola’s “The Godfather”. Family, friends, business partners and government officials cam...
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IPCS Book Review
Pakistan: Civil-Military Relations and the Instrumentalisation of Political Power
Rana Banerji · 23 Jul, 2013 · #4048 · Commentary
Military Agency, Politics and the State in Pakistan
Ejaz Hussain
Heidelberg Series in South Asian and Comparative Studies- Vol VI: 472 pages
Publishers: Samskriti, New Delhi, 2013
This book examines the causes and modes of repeated militar...
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Vietnam-India Strategic Partnership: Spaces and Gaps
Shresht Jain · 23 Jul, 2013 · #4047 · Commentary
Except few stints, one of which being Vietnam supporting its ideological partner China during the Indo-China war of 1962, the India-Vietnam relationship has remained exceptionally cordial since its foundation was laid by Prime Minister Nehru and...
