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  • A Perspective from Tehran
    Iran Protests: Drivers and Consequences
    Majid Izadpanahi    ·   22 Jan, 2018    ·    #5423    ·    Commentary    
    While much of the world was busy celebrating the new year, Iran was enveloped in protests. Spread across 70 cities, these protests began in the Shiite holy city of Mashhad in reaction to endemic inflation that has plagued the Iranian economy. T...
  • Nuke Street
    A Global Nuclear Order in Crisis
    Sheel kant Sharma    ·   22 Jan, 2018    ·    #5422    ·    Commentary    ·   Column
    The year 2017 saw the iconic clock of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists slide to two-and-a-half minutes to midnight. It is set closer than ever to the brink except in 1952 when US-Soviet hydrogen bomb tests within six months of each other had push...
  • The Yuan: China’s New Strategic Tool in Pakistan
    Prashant Dikshit    ·   19 Jan, 2018    ·    #5421    ·    Commentary    
    In 2009, China launched a pilot project to use the Yuan (China's official currency and economic symbol) for cross-border settlements. Since then, there have been purposeful campaigns in this direction. The scheme was then developed into a fu...
  • Can India Complement and Gain from China's Belt And Road Initiative?
    Sreejith S Nair    ·   12 Jan, 2018    ·    #5420    ·    Commentary    
    China will eventually embark on its vision of building roads, railways and pipelines across Eurasia, irrespective of India's endorsement of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). This attempt to lay foundations of a Sino-centric Asia provides India...
  • Ushering Normalcy in Kashmir
    Ayan Tewari    ·   11 Jan, 2018    ·    #5419    ·    Commentary    
    In 2017, Indian security forces (SFs) initiated a more focused approach to dealing with militants in Kashmir, resulting in the killing of 218 terrorists so far. Although these operations were hailed as a success, the high civilian deaths (218 mi...
  • A Human Security Approach to Nuclear Disarmament
    Shivani Singh    ·   09 Jan, 2018    ·    #5418    ·    Commentary    
    Despite the best intentions of nuclear disarmament groups, failure to adopt norms surrounding human security in disarmament has proved to be a major impediment in achieving concrete progress. Why is the human security approach needed in nuclear ...
  • Maritime Matters
    Maritime Digital Trends in 2018
    Vijay Sakhuja    ·   08 Jan, 2018    ·    #5417    ·    Commentary    ·   Column
    At the beginning of the year, industries announce trends in their respective domains. Manufacturers publicise major products that will be available in the market; car-makers showcase new models that will be launched during the year; manufacturer...
  • Indian Foreign Policy and the Hafiz Saeed Problem
    Abhijit Iyer Mitra    ·   05 Jan, 2018    ·    #5416    ·    Commentary    
    On Friday, 29 December 2017, the Government of India faced a major public embarrassment, one that provides some insights into the failure of intelligence. What it shows is one of three things: a failure of gathering, collation and transmission o...
  • East Asia Compass
    'Comfort Women' and the Japan-South Korea Relationship
    Dr Sandip Kumar Mishra    ·   02 Jan, 2018    ·    #5415    ·    Commentary    ·   Column
    Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe might not participate in the inaugural ceremony of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics because a South Korean task force has stated that the agreement with Japan on the ‘comfort women’ issue, signed in De...
  • Doklam and the India-US Strategic Relationship
    Pieter-jan Dockx    ·   02 Jan, 2018    ·    #5414    ·    Commentary    
    A widely debated aspect of the Doklam standoff was the US...
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