COMMENTARIES
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2018 US Nuclear Posture Review: Intent and Implications
Shivani Singh · 09 Mar, 2018 · #5445 · Commentary
Earlier
this year, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists' Science and Security Board
announced their decision to move the Doomsday Clock closer to midnight. Around
the same time, the US Department of Defense released the 2018 Nuclear Posture
R...
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Can Australian Democracy Dull Chinese Sharp Power?
Rachael Strogoff · 09 Mar, 2018 · #5444 · Commentary
Australian professor Clive Hamilton...
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Regulating India's Cattle Industry: A Socio-Economic Assessment
Ayan Tewari · 08 Mar, 2018 · #5443 · Commentary
On 23 May 2017, a notification issued under the 1960 Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act was passed, placing new regulations on the cattle industry. The livestock sector (consisting of meat, dairy, and eggs) now makes up 28 per cent of the agr...
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Women Cyber Warriors and the Indian Military
Vijay Sakhuja · 08 Mar, 2018 · #5442 · Commentary
The stage is set for the entry of women as ‘cyber warriors’ in the Indian armed forces. The Indian Army chief noted in 2017 that plans were in place to employ women officers "in new cadres such as cyber" since the country ...
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Nuke Street
Winter Olympics in the Nuclear Shadow
Sheel kant Sharma · 05 Mar, 2018 · #5441 · Commentary · Column
Mixed signals have come from the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics but they are once again wrapped in fierce and heightened rhetoric; from Washington, about the dire consequences of North Korean defiance in word and deed, and Pyongyong calling sanctions...
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Musical Chairs in China's Parliament
Srikanth Kondapalli · 28 Feb, 2018 · #5440 · Commentary
On 26 February, the Central Committee of the ruling Communist Party of China (CCP) proposed a series of constitutional amendments including changing the two-term norm for the president and vice-president posts. No specific term period was mentione...
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Part-I
Reorienting Saudi Foreign Policy: From Islam to the Arab Identity
Pieter-jan Dockx · 27 Feb, 2018 · #5439 · Commentary
Since the rise of Saudi Arabia...
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Maritime Matters
The Debut of Counter-Drone Technologies
Vijay Sakhuja · 27 Feb, 2018 · #5438 · Commentary · Column
During his speech at the Munich Security Conference in February 2018, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu "brandished" a piece of debris from an Iranian unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) brought down by the Israeli military after it ...
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Belt and Road and US-China Relations in 2018
Rajeshwari Krishnamurthy · 19 Feb, 2018 · #5437 · Commentary
In early February 2018, US forces conducted air operations targeting both the Taliban and the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM) in Afghanistan's north-eastern Badakshan province which shares a border with China's Xinjiang Uyghur Auton...
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Fragility of the Process: Myanmar’s Long Road to Peace
Angshuman Choudhury · 19 Feb, 2018 · #5436 · Commentary
The third edition of Myanmar's flagship 21st Century Panglong Conference (21CPC) is scheduled to take place in February 2018. Originally slated for the end of January, the peace conference was postponed a week before the scheduled date. Nayp...
