COMMENTARIES
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New Indian Defence Minister: A List of Priorities
Murli Menon · 05 Sep, 2017 · #5352 · Commentary
Thus India has its first ever woman defence minister. Having an otherwise uninitiated but statedly beyond reproach integrity-wise, Nirmala Sitharaman as the defence minister could well turn out to be a blessing in disguise for the armed forces, ...
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The Strategist
"The World is Not Peaceful"
Vijay Shankar · 31 Aug, 2017 · #5351 · Commentary · Column
Addressing senior Communist Party and government officials in Beijing at an event to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), Premier Xi Jinping declared, “We do not allow any individual, ...
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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,
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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...
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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
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
