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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...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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 ...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • J&K Focus
    Evolving External Influence in Jammu and Kashmir (Part I)
    Lt Gen (Retd) Syed Ata Hasnain    ·   12 Apr, 2017    ·    #5266    ·    Commentary    ·   Column
    Over the past month, the situation in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) took a familiar turn, usually witnessed around the end of winter. Terrorist activity increased and there has been much worry about energised mobs attempting to come to the rescue ...
  • Trump's Strike Against Syria: International Implications
    KP Fabian    ·   11 Apr, 2017    ·    #5265    ·    Commentary    
    Within 63 hours of reports about a chemical weapons attack on the rebel-held town of Khan Sheikhoun in the Syrian province of Idlib which killed approximately 80 people including children, on 4 April, US ships in the eastern Mediterranean sent 5...
  • IPCS Discussion
    India’s Nuclear Strategy
    Report    ·   10 Apr, 2017    ·    #5264    ·    Commentary    
    An overview of the remarks made at 'India's Nuclear Strategy', the second discussion in IPCS' 2017 series, 'Evolving Discourses of Security in International Politics'. Dr Vipin Narang Mitsui Career Develop...
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