COMMENTARIES
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IPCS Debate
Sri Lanka and the 13th Amendment: Tamil Disenchantment
Prof. V. Suryanarayan · 25 Jun, 2013 · #4012 · Commentary
During the Fourth Eelam War, in order to ensure India’s support to the ongoing military operations, President Mahinda Rajapaksa used to assure New Delhi that his government would sincerely and expeditiously implement the 13th amendment, on...
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IPCS Discussion:
The Kachin and Rohingya Conflicts in Myanmar
Nayantara Shaunik · 25 Jun, 2013 · #4011 · Commentary
The Kachin Conflict: Review of 'Pushed to the Brink'
by CS Kuppuswamy
Two years since the conflict between the Myanmar Army and the Kachin Independence Army started on 9 June 2011, it does not seem to have reached a cohesive conclusion...
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Water Conflicts in South Asia:
Cauvery and the Monsoon Surge
Roomana Hukil · 24 Jun, 2013 · #4010 · Commentary
A new dynamic over the Cauvery row impounds greater perplexity in the Karnataka and Tamil Nadu relationship. The Cauvery Supervisory Committee (CSC) dismissed Tamil Nadu’s plea of receiving 63 tmcft of water (53 tmcft as 2012’s backl...
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IPCS Special Commentary:
China, Tibet & Beijing's New Thinking
Jayadeva Ranade · 24 Jun, 2013 · #4009 · Commentary
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As China’s new leaders began settling into their jobs soon after the 18th Party Congress held in Beijing in November 2012, indications became available that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)’s sen...
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Media Survey:
Iran Elections 2013
Somya Chhabra · 24 Jun, 2013 · #4008 · Commentary
A day before the long-awaited presidential elections in Iran took place, the New York Times profiled Hassan Rouhani as one of the few prominent politicians proposing better relations with the outside world, and consequently, being mocked by the ...
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China & the Shangri La:
Dialogue as Foreign Policy
Rana Divyank Chaudhary · 24 Jun, 2013 · #4007 · Commentary
The 12th Shangri-La Dialogue was the first occasion in 2013 when the leaders and top defence officials of Western and Asian countries met on a common platform to discuss the security issues in the Asia-Pacific. Needless to say, the series of int...
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Obama and Nuclear Disarmament:
Why Berlin is not Prague-II
PR Chari · 24 Jun, 2013 · #4006 · Commentary
Why President Obama chose Europe to make his major policy statements on nuclear disarmament is easily explicable. Europe was the most heavily nuclear armed region during the Cold War, with the United States and the Soviet Union confronting each ...
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Vietnam and China:
Patching Up?
Rajaram Panda · 24 Jun, 2013 · #4005 · Commentary
From 19 to 21 June 2013, Vietnam’s President Truong Tan Sang paid his first-ever three-day state visit to China, amid rising tensions between the two countries over the South China Sea. A communiqué issued by the Vietnamese governme...
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China and the US:
Xi-Obama Summit
Teshu Singh · 21 Jun, 2013 · #4004 · Commentary
On the last leg of his four nation tour, Xi Jinping visited the US on 7-8 June 2013. The visit is important as it comes just three months after his ascent to presidency. China has reiterated that it attaches great significance to its relations w...
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Social Media and Our Responsibility:
Individual and Collective
D Suba Chandran · 20 Jun, 2013 · #4003 · Commentary
Social media, especially the Facebook, Twitter and their multiple avatars, undoubtedly is a great revolution today. Perhaps, one of the greatest that humankind has witnessed. While we are yet to comprehend the impact of this media, the strides i...
