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  • China: Contextualising the Anti-Access Area-Denial Strategy
    Teshu Singh    ·   30 Apr, 2013    ·    #3902    ·    Commentary    
    The Eighteenth Party Congress Work Report has, for the first time, defined China as a “maritime power” that will “firmly uphold its maritime rights and interests.” The People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) is embarki...
  • IPCS Discussion: Military Confidence Building Measures & India-China Relations
    Narayani Basu    ·   30 Apr, 2013    ·    #3901    ·    Commentary    
    The book, Military Confidence-Building and India-China Relations: Fighting Distrust is the result of a collaboration between the Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies (IPCS) and the Institute of Chinese Studies (ICS).  Alka Acharya ...
  • IPCS Discussion: Recent Crisis & Domestic Politics on the Korean Peninsula
    Narayani Basu    ·   30 Apr, 2013    ·    #3900    ·    Commentary    
    Session I Introductory Remarks Prof. P.R. Chari, Visiting Professor, Institute of Peace & Conflict Studies, New Delhi  This discussion comes at a crucial time in East Asian affairs. With the number of global and regional ...
  • Intrusion in Ladakh: Warning from China
    Jayadeva Ranade    ·   30 Apr, 2013    ·    #3899    ·    Commentary    
    The 19-kilometres deep intrusion by an armed patrol of China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) into the strategically sensitive area around Daulet Beg Oldi in the Aksai Chin region, and detected on 16 April 2013, has been unprovoked. ...
  • Pakistan Elections 2013: Women and the Youth
    Zainab Akhter    ·   30 Apr, 2013    ·    #3898    ·    Commentary    
    In Pakistan, the participation of women in politics is increasing in general but the presence of women in the political parties as well as in the political structure at the local, provincial, and national levels remains insignificant due to cult...
  • Carnegie Nuclear Policy Conference 2013: Deterrence and Disarmament
    PR Chari    ·   28 Apr, 2013    ·    #3897    ·    Commentary    
    Prague 2.0 is an evocative agenda item in which to situate the global issues arising from nuclear weapons, and embedded in arresting their proliferation and eliminating them, while ensuring conflict avoidance and prevention. Consequently, a plen...
  • India, Pakistan and the Nuclear Race: An Assessment
    Michael Krepon    ·   28 Apr, 2013    ·    #3896    ·    Commentary    
    Metaphors and analogies are useful literary devices to prompt reaction and discussion. My weak attempt to borrow Aesop’s fable about the tortoise and the hare, and to apply it to the nuclear competition on the subcontinent, seems to h...
  • Core, Periphery and Indian Foreign Policy: The growing divide between Delhi and sub-regions
    D Suba Chandran    ·   25 Apr, 2013    ·    #3895    ·    Commentary    
    During the recent months, the divide between New Delhi and Tamil Nadu was obvious over how both of them perceive the ethnic problem in Sri Lanka. Not long ago, Mamata Banerjee played a ...
  • Bhutan Elections 2013: A Difficult Road Ahead?
    Kunkhen Dorji    ·   24 Apr, 2013    ·    #3894    ·    Commentary    
    The upcoming general elections in Bhutan will see many new faces at the grass root level, but the same cannot be said about their party’s leadership who have served Bhutan in many distinguished fields. The Opposition are quite critical abo...
  • Boston Bombings: Lessons for India
    Ashok Bhan    ·   24 Apr, 2013    ·    #3893    ·    Commentary    
    Those who watched the footage of orderly public behavior and response of emergency services soon after the Boston marathon blasts will realize how much India has to learn as a society to respond to a terror attack. No crowding, no slogan shoutin...
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