COMMENTARIES
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Three Years of the Modi Government
India-Bhutan: Furthering Common Interests
VP Haran · 21 Jun, 2017 · #5306 · Commentary
Bhutan, like other neighbours, watched with interest and some anxiety as National Democratic Alliance (NDA) swept the polls in May 2014. Indian Prime Minister (PM) Narendra Modi was an enigma to them. They were unsure of what the Modi government...
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Three Years of the Modi Government
India-US: Convergences and Divergences
Chintamani Mahapatra · 21 Jun, 2017 · #5305 · Commentary
Narendra Modi's landslide victory in the 2014 general election raised many eyebrows in relevant circles about the future of India’s relations with the US. The United Progressive Alliance-II (UPA-II) government had already witnesse...
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Three Years of the Modi Government
India and the Koreas: Promises and Follow-ups
Dr Sandip Kumar Mishra · 21 Jun, 2017 · #5304 · Commentary
From the very beginning of its term in 2014, India's incumbent National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government showed decisive intent towards bringing more dynamism in India’s foreign policy. Good examples of this were its policies towar...
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Three Years of the Modi Government
Civil Nuclear Energy Initiatives
Niharika Tagotra · 20 Jun, 2017 · #5303 · Commentary
In July 2014, months after the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government returned to power, Prime Minister (PM) Narendra Modi visited the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) in Mumbai and declared that nuclear power would be an es...
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Dateline Colombo
Crisis and Foresight Analysis
Asanga Abeyagoonasekera · 20 Jun, 2017 · #5302 · Commentary · Column
The dawn of the Fourth Industrial Revolution brings with the promise of further human advancement. . And yet, while humanity should be aspiring for a better life, disturbing events like the terrorist attacks in Manchester, London, and the Philip...
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Three Years of the Modi Government
India-China Relations: A Mixed Bag
TCA Rangachari · 19 Jun, 2017 · #5301 · Commentary
“The prospects of the 21st century becoming the Asian century will depend in large measure on what India and China achieve individually and what we do together.”
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Three Years of the Modi Government
Indian Nuclear Policy and Diplomacy
Manpreet Sethi · 19 Jun, 2017 · #5300 · Commentary
Democracies often undergo swings in policies with a change of government. India’s nuclear policy, however, in both its dimensions - weapons and power generation - has enjoyed broad support across political parties. The pace of development of...
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Evolving Situation in J&K: Summer 2017 (Part II)
Lt Gen (Retd) Syed Ata Hasnain · 16 Jun, 2017 · #5299 · Commentary
Amarnath Yatra is a worrisome event from a security point of view because the mileage gained by terrorists and its implications can both be immense. Hence the need to over insure that both routes, the Pahalgam and Baltal ones, be secured each by...
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Three Years of the Modi Government
Dealing with Left Wing Extremism: No Permanent Solution?
Bibhu Prasad Routray · 16 Jun, 2017 · #5298 · Commentary
On 3 June 2017, India's Home Minister, Rajnath Singh, summed up his government's performance in the past three years with regard to the challenge of Left Wing Extremism (LWE), and said "...there has been a decline of 25% in LWE rela...
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Responsibility to Protect: Quo Vadis?
John Schabedoth · 16 Jun, 2017 · #5297 · Commentary
The concept of responsibility to protect (R2P) intends limit state sovereignty in favour of a more effective protection of human rights. It does not have a legal effect that goes beyond the existing norms of public international law (PIL). Rathe...
