COMMENTARIES
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India and Vietnam: Strengthening Bilateral Relations
Amruta Karambelkar · 09 Jan, 2017 · #5220 · Commentary
2016 has been an important year in India-Vietnam relations, characterised by several high-level bilateral visits. Prime Minister Modi paid a visit to Vietnam in September 2016, preceded Defence Minister Parrikar's visit in June 2016. New Del...
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India-Pakistan
Line (Out) of Control?
Joy Mitra · 06 Jan, 2017 · #5219 · Commentary
The Line of Control (LoC) between India and Pakistan is witnessing a fresh spiral of violence post the Indian “surgical” strikes of 29 September 2016. The spike in violence seems to suggest that the ceasefire agreement of 2003 betwee...
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Special Commentary
India’s Nuclear Energy Policy: Bottlenecks to Implementation
Niharika Tagotra · 03 Jan, 2017 · #5218 · Commentary
India has an ambitious nuclear energy programme but its legislative-regulatory mechanism does not quite match up to it. With a present installed capacity of 5780 mega watts (MW), contributing about 3 per cent to the total energy production, nuclea...
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India, Afghanistan and the Heart of Asia: Reading Between the Lines
Sarral Sharma · 03 Jan, 2017 · #5217 · Commentary
On 4 December 2016, the sixth ministerial conference of the Heart of Asia - Istanbul Process (HoA-IP) on Afghanistan concluded in Amritsar, India. The Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi voiced their concern ove...
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Red Affairs
A Bridge Over River Gurupriya
Bibhu Prasad Routray · 31 Dec, 2016 · #5216 · Commentary · Column
In Odisha's Malkangiri district, a 910 m-long bridge over river Gurupriya is being attempted to be built for the last 34 years. This could arguably be the most delayed infrastructure building project in the world. In a layman's calcu...
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The Strategist
Perils of Nuclear Paranoia
Vijay Shankar · 31 Dec, 2016 · #5215 · Commentary · Column
If armed hostilities, for the initiator, has very little to do with military balance both conventional and nuclear; then it raises the prospect that balance may indeed be skewed against gravity.
Nuclear Brinkmanship Plus
The late Thomas S...
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IPCS Discussion
IPCS-Stimson Center Roundtable on South Asia
Report · 31 Dec, 2016 · #5214 · Commentary
In the 9th interaction under its Twentieth Anniversary Plenum Series, IPCS, in collaboration with Stimson Center, organised a roundtable on South Asia on Thursday, 8 December 2016.
In Session I, Amb (Retd) Salman Haidar (Patron, IP...
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J&K Focus
The Ominous Calm is both Good and Bad for J&K
Lt Gen (Retd) Syed Ata Hasnain · 31 Dec, 2016 · #5213 · Commentary · Column
After the 2013 hanging of Afzal Guru, many had expected that the Valley would boil. Nothing much happened, leading people to inquire from Kashmiris as to why this was so. Friends from Kashmir often say that people from the Valley do not respond ...
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US Policy Orientation
Trump and “America Firstâ€: The End of the Asia-Pacific Pivot?
Akanksha Narain · 31 Dec, 2016 · #5212 · Commentary
Donald Trump’s unexpected victory has not only shocked the world but is also likely to shake up US foreign policy. While Trump’s unpredictability, campaign rhetoric and unclear foreign policy stance have left analysts and policymakers ...
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Indonesia: Secularism and Domestic Politics
Navrekha Sharma · 27 Dec, 2016 · #5211 · Commentary
Jakarta’s popular, dynamic (and by all accounts, clean) Governor, Basuki “Ahok” Purnama, a Christian of Chinese descent, is on trial for saying, at a recent election rally to vote in the next governor, that his c...
