COMMENTARIES
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IPCS Discussion
Lok Sabha By-polls: Reading Jammu and Kashmir
Report · 27 Apr, 2017 · #5276 · Commentary
On 18 April 2017, Dr Ashok Bhan, Distinguished Fellow, IPCS; former Director General of Police, J&K; former Member, National Security Advisory Board (NSAB), delivered his remarks on the Lok Sabha By-Polls in Jammu and Kashmir, in the IPCS Co...
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Pakistan and the Panama Papers Verdict
Rana Banerji · 21 Apr, 2017 · #5275 · Commentary
The long awaited Panama Papers verdict on 20 April, 2017, by the five-judge bench of Pakistan's Supreme Court has stopped short of disqualifying Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and given him a temporary reprieve by ordering investigation by a Jo...
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Dateline Colombo
Sri Lanka: National Interests in a Globalised World
Asanga Abeyagoonasekera · 20 Apr, 2017 · #5274 · Commentary · Column
The first 100 days of the US President Donald Trump's administration revealed the complexity of a head of state’s task. One of his predecessors, former US President John F Kennedy during his first 100 days had learned a costly lesson w...
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Strategic Space
US-North Korea Military Swashbuckling and China's Role
Manpreet Sethi · 19 Apr, 2017 · #5273 · Commentary · Column
Temperatures are high all across India, but this is a normal seasonal phenomenon. Far more worrisome is the soaring of temperatures between the US, North Korea and China. The military swashbuckling currently under way between the US and North Ko...
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Special Commentary
Jammu and Kashmir: A Saga of Neglect
Arun Chaudhary · 19 Apr, 2017 · #5272 · Commentary
The institutions that are supposed to establish calm in the Kashmir valley seem to be opposed or at least indifferent to this idea. The captains of these institutions have, since the 1990s, reviewed their strategies and made amends whenever viol...
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West Asia
Obama, Trump, and Abiding Authoritarianism in Egypt
Derek Verbakel · 19 Apr, 2017 · #5271 · Commentary
On 3 April, US President Donald Trump hosted the first ever visit of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi to the White House. Many observers have characterised Trump’s praise of el-Sisi's authoritarian governance as engendering a si...
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Evolving External Influence in Jammu and Kashmir (Part II)
Lt Gen (Retd) Syed Ata Hasnain · 14 Apr, 2017 · #5270 · Commentary
Pakistan’s propensity to calibrate its role in J&K is usually contingent upon its strategic confidence at a given time and the situation present in the state. It appears in the midst of a new found confidence quite evident from social ...
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Asia-Pacific: Is Middle Power Multilateralism Possible?
Chandrali Sarkar · 13 Apr, 2017 · #5269 · Commentary
In light of President Trump’s abandonment of the original ‘Pivot to Asia’ policy, a recent article in The Indian Express, titled ‘Delhi, Tokyo Canberra’, by C Raja Mohan and Rory Medcalf, has explored possible appro...
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Trump Vs Obama: US Policy Towards Adversarial States
Kimberley Anne Nazareth · 13 Apr, 2017 · #5268 · Commentary
During the Obama presidency, US policy towards Syria, Iran and North Korea rested on a ‘carrot and stick’ approach with greater emphasis on the carrots. The Trump administration, while following a similar approach, appears to be will...
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Why India’s Economic Reforms are Climate Unfriendly
Niharika Tagotra · 13 Apr, 2017 · #5267 · Commentary
The economic and fiscal policies of a government are the prime indicators of its priorities. In this regard, the Union Budget 2017 and the recently introduced Goods and Services Tax (GST) bill, hailed as a part of the larger economic reforms und...
