COMMENTARIES
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Book Review: Contextualising the Arab Spring Within the Legacy of Resistance
Anwar Alam · 25 Mar, 2013 · #3852 · Commentary
Martyred but Not Tamed: The Politics of Resistance in the Middle East
Kumar, Ram Narayan
New Delhi: Sage Publications, 2012
At a time when all eyes are cautiously watching the rapidly changing socio-political paradigm in the Middle East, th...
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Pakistan Elections 2013: Caretaker Prime Minister & the Election Scenario
Rana Banerji · 25 Mar, 2013 · #3851 · Commentary
The elected government in Pakistan has successfully completed its tenure: a first in the political history of the country. Now that a caretaker Prime Minister has also been appointed, what is the domestic situation in terms of elections and poli...
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China: Reformed Labour Camps?
Namrata Hasija · 24 Mar, 2013 · #3850 · Commentary
On 17 March, 2013, in his first press release after being appointed as the new Chinese Premier, Li Keqiang said that a plan will be released later this year for introducing reforms in the controversial gulags (labour camps) in China. This articl...
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China: How bad does the Japan-US alliance look?
Rana Divyank Chaudhary · 20 Mar, 2013 · #3849 · Commentary
The situation in the Asia-Pacific is precarious. Japan and China are neither willing to back down from a peaking military build-up nor a worsening diplomatic standoff. Though going to war might seem unlikely, China is apprehensive about a reinfo...
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Myanmar: US, China and An Eastern Great Game?
D Suba Chandran · 20 Mar, 2013 · #3848 · Commentary
It appears well established now, that a new Great Game is slowly evolving in Myanmar. Perhaps an Eastern Great Game, if one has to take the construct from the original Great Game between British India and Russia in the western parts of the India...
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Bypassing the Malacca Strait: China circumnavigating ‘Risk-Prone’ Conduit to secure Energy Contingencies
Shanta Maree Surendran · 19 Mar, 2013 · #3847 · Commentary
In May 2013, China will be linked directly to the Bay of Bengal in the Indian Ocean by virtue of a gas pipeline running from Kyaukpyu port in Myanmar to China’s Yunnan Province. This will mark the completion of the first in a number of pro...
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Kargil: Echoes of Attacks against Minorities in Pakistan
Zainab Akhter · 16 Mar, 2013 · #3846 · Commentary
In Kargil, thousands of people took to the streets in February and participated in a protest rally against the killings of minorities across Pakistan (this time more specifically against the recent Hazara killings in Quetta). What are the reason...
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China: Sweeping Hukou Reforms?
Namrata Hasija · 16 Mar, 2013 · #3845 · Commentary
The author’s last report (April, 2012) analysed the growing migrant unrest in China. One of the main catalysts in this increasing unrest was the hukou system. The hukou system refers to China’s household registration system, which bi...
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Thailand: A Peace Deal with Insurgents
Aparupa Bhattacherjee · 16 Mar, 2013 · #3844 · Commentary
A historic peace deal was recently signed between the Thailand government and Thai insurgent group, Barisan Revolusi Nasional (BRN) in Kuala Lampur. The deal was signed in Malaysia, a country which also played the role of mediator in the forthco...
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The Indo-Pacific: India’s Look East 3.0
D Suba Chandran · 14 Mar, 2013 · #3843 · Commentary
India, today, is well into the third decade of its Look East Policy, which was formulated in the 1990s. During the first decade, it was sound in theory; and in the second decade, India did take measures to implement its ideas. Still in the take-...
