COMMENTARIES
  • India-Sri Lanka: A Grim Tale of Economic Cooperation
    Husanjot Chahal    ·   19 May, 2017    ·    #5286    ·    Commentary    
    On 11 May, Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Sri Lanka to attend the International ‘Vesak Day’ celebrations, just two weeks after Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe’s five-day visit to New Delhi. PM Modi’s vi...
  • Strategic Space
    New NPR: Can It Break New Ground?
    Manpreet Sethi    ·   16 May, 2017    ·    #5285    ·    Commentary    ·   Column
    As was expected with the arrival of President Trump to the White House, he put all US foreign policy issues under review. He has also called for a new Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) that is likely to be announced in 2018. The last NPR was brought ...
  • Dateline Colombo
    Steering Co-operation Across Oceans
    Asanga Abeyagoonasekera    ·   15 May, 2017    ·    #5284    ·    Commentary    ·   Column
    “We should not develop a habit of retreating to the harbour whenever we encounter a storm, for this will never get us to the other side of the ocean.”                     &...
  • Eagle Eye
    100 Days in Office: The Trump Administration
    Chintamani Mahapatra    ·   15 May, 2017    ·    #5283    ·    Commentary    ·   Column
    More than a hundred days have passed since Donald Trump entered the Oval Office as the forty-fifth president of the US. US domestic politics and Washington’s engagement with the rest of the world since then have entered an unprecedented pe...
  • India: Missing the Bus on Sustainable Development Goals?
    Garima Maheshwari    ·   08 May, 2017    ·    #5282    ·    Commentary    
    In April 2017, the Government of India released a draft set of India’s indicators for mapping the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) in the country for public consultation. Spanning a set of 17 SDGs and their 169 targets mandated through ...
  • New Complexities in Myanmar's Peace Process
    Angshuman Choudhury    ·   06 May, 2017    ·    #5281    ·    Commentary    
    On 15 April, 2017, seven Ethnic Armed Organisations (EAOs) - all non-signatories to the Nationwide Ceasefire Accord (NCA) - met in Pangkham, the de facto capital of the autonomous ‘Wa State’ within Shan State (northeast Myanmar). Con...
  • Red Affairs
    Rumour of Triumph
    Bibhu Prasad Routray    ·   01 May, 2017    ·    #5280    ·    Commentary    ·   Column
    It took 25 corpses of security force personnel for the government to accept, albeit reluctantly, that its counter-Maoist strategy needs a review. It took this attack - the worst in seven years - for the government to fill up the top position in ...
  • East Asia Compass
    Trump’s North Korea Policy: Regional Implications
    Dr Sandip Kumar Mishra    ·   01 May, 2017    ·    #5279    ·    Commentary    ·   Column
    US President Donald Trump has displayed an inconsistent and dangerous approach towards North Korean provocations, prompting even Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte to advise restraint. This is because the consequences of a major conflict on th...
  • The Strategist
    The Value of a Declared No First Use Nuclear Policy
    Vijay Shankar    ·   01 May, 2017    ·    #5278    ·    Commentary    ·   Column
    "Can it be a nation’s case to destroy the very purpose that polity sets out to attain; or as Milton put it “Our Cure, To Be No More; Sad Cure!” The sensibility of negotiated agreements to assuage friction between nat...
  • China-Philippines Ties: Lessons for India and Japan
    Tapan Bharadwaj    ·   27 Apr, 2017    ·    #5277    ·    Commentary    
    China and Philippines are in discussion to establish a bilateral consultation mechanism on South China Sea (SCS). This could re-establish direct talks between both countries after a long pause of six years. This upswing in bilateral ties however...
POPULAR COMMENTARIES