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  • Nuclear Weapon Ban Treaty: Addressing Normative Concerns
    Shivani Singh    ·   31 Aug, 2017    ·    #5350    ·    Commentary    
    Norms are considered a product of behaviour and expectations, thereby playing a vital role in international law and foreign policy. An example of such norm setting was witnessed in the recently adopted Treaty on Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, ...
  • North Korea: Time to Focus on Minimisation, Not Denuclearisation
    Rahul Raj    ·   29 Aug, 2017    ·    #5349    ·    Commentary    
    The North Korean nuclear programme has been the focus of international attention over the last two decades because Pyongyang’s development of nuclear weapons and intercontinental ballistic missiles cannot be separated from its bellicose be...
  • IPCS Discussion
    The Nuclear Future
    Report    ·   26 Aug, 2017    ·    #5348    ·    Commentary    
    Transcript of remarks made at the IPCS discussion, 'The Nuclear Future', on 8 August 2017. Opening Remarks by the Chair Ambassador (Retd) Salman Haidar Patron, IPCS, & former Foreign Secretary of India ...
  • Fifty Years of ASEAN: Between Assertion and Reinvention
    Angshuman Choudhury    ·   26 Aug, 2017    ·    #5347    ·    Commentary    
    The Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) hosted a series of annual multilateral forums between its member states and with other regional partners in Manila, Philippines, from 3-8 August 2017. These included the ASEAN Foreign Ministers...
  • Eagle Eye
    Testing the Trump-Modi Partnership
    Chintamani Mahapatra    ·   25 Aug, 2017    ·    #5346    ·    Commentary    ·   Column
    The Doklam standoff between India and China is a serious test case for the maturing India-US strategic partnership, which has endured leadership changes in recent years in New Delhi and Washington. China has recently emerged as a nuisance f...
  • Nepal's Disaster Management Preparedness: Taking Stock
    Amb TCA Raghavan    ·   24 Aug, 2017    ·    #5345    ·    Commentary    
    According to the Nepal Disaster Report 2015 produced by the Government of Nepal, Nepal is among the top 20 on the list of the most multi-hazard-prone countries in the world. Its active tectonic plates, variable climatic conditions, rugged and fr...
  • China’s Nuclear Programme: Modernising or Multiplying?
    Allyson Rimmer    ·   22 Aug, 2017    ·    #5344    ·    Commentary    
    China, one of five countries allowed to possess nuclear weapons by the Treaty for the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), has been accused of expanding the number of nuclear warheads at its disposal. It is believed to be the only NPT Nuc...
  • Dateline Colombo
    Sri Lanka: Leveraging the Politics of Geography
    Asanga Abeyagoonasekera    ·   22 Aug, 2017    ·    #5343    ·    Commentary    ·   Column
    Rural Hambantota was once best known thanks to featuring in a book by Leonard Woolf in the early 20th century, and now, as a port shaping Sri Lankan politics. Woolf’s Village in the Jungle was the first novel in English literature to be writ...
  • Strategic Space
    Stabilising Deterrence: Doctrines Score Over Numbers
    Manpreet Sethi    ·   22 Aug, 2017    ·    #5342    ·    Commentary    ·   Column
    In answer to the criticism from non-nuclear weapon states on lack of movement towards nuclear disarmament by the nuclear weapon states, the latter often highlight the reductions in their stockpiles as one step showcasing their commitment to this...
  • Trump's Afghanistan Strategy
    Rana Banerji    ·   22 Aug, 2017    ·    #5341    ·    Commentary    
    After procrastinating for almost five months, US President Donald Trump chose the symbolically significant platform of Fort Myers, Arlington to announce a shift from a “time-based to a conditions-based” strategy to support the Ashraf G...
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