COMMENTARIES
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Comparing the French and Indian Nuclear Doctrines
Marie Pavageau · 16 Sep, 2016 · #5129 · Commentary
Generally speaking, countries’ decisions to go nuclear are based on traumatic episodes that shaped their national identity and must never happen again. The 1956 Suez Crisis was the trigger for France's nuclear programme when it realise...
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China Overtaking India in Maldives
Anjelina Patrick · 15 Sep, 2016 · #5128 · Commentary
The amendment allowing land holdings in the Maldives by foreign entities might contribute to the strong hold of the Chinese in the India Ocean Region (IOR) due to its huge investment in infrastructure development. These have the potential to alt...
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West Asia
The EU-Jordan Experiment: Towards Easing the Refugee Issue
Roshan Iyer · 14 Sep, 2016 · #5127 · Commentary
On 20 July 2016, the EU and the Kingdom of Jordan entered into a free trade deal, the first of its kind in the region. If optimally utilised, the deal opens doors for significant investment into Jordan and promises to create a large number of jo...
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Dateline Colombo
Oceans of (Dis)trust
Asanga Abeyagoonasekera · 14 Sep, 2016 · #5126 · Commentary · Column
“No cause justifies the deaths of innocent people”
Albert Camus
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon delivered a lecture at the Kadirgamar Institute, Colombo, on ‘Sustainable Peace and Achieving Sustainable De...
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Eagle Eye
India and the US: Inching Towards an Informal Alliance
Chintamani Mahapatra · 12 Sep, 2016 · #5125 · Commentary · Column
US Secretary of State John Kerry’s recent visit to India, along with Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker, to participate in the second Strategic and Commercial Dialogue with their Indian counterparts, and Indian Defence Minister Parrikar&rsq...
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Fragile States Index 2016
FSI and Myanmar: More Clarity Required
Preet Malik · 12 Sep, 2016 · #5124 · Commentary
To try to evaluate a democratic process on a uniform framework is fraught with problems of a structural nature. Just by way of an example, in a farewell call on the then Malaysian prime minister in August 1990, he remarked that “in I...
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Fragile States Index 2016
China and the FSI: Decennary Trends, 2007-2016
Chao Xie · 10 Sep, 2016 · #5123 · Commentary
The Fund
for Peace has released its twelfth annual Fragile States Index (FSI). As with
previous editions, it presents yearly scores and rankings based on the levels
of stability and pressures each state faces.. However, the changes in...
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Fragile States Index 2016
Measuring Fragility: A Case Study of Pakistan
Sadia Tasleem · 09 Sep, 2016 · #5122 · Commentary
The review of a decade of reporting in the Fragile States
Index (2007-2016) – previously known as the Failed States Index – issued by the
Fund for Peace suggests fairly consistent trends and patterns in Pakistan. The
Index shows o...
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Fragile States Index 2016
Fragility in Pakistan
Rana Banerji · 09 Sep, 2016 · #5121 · Commentary
The US based non-profit organisation, Fund for Peace (FFP), which works to prevent conflict and to promote sustainable security by building relationships and trust across diverse sectors, annually prepares a Fragile States Index (FSI). It has li...
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Fragile States Index 2016
Introduction: Assessing the Index
Derek Verbakel and Marie Pavageau · 09 Sep, 2016 · #5120 · Commentary
Since its inception in 2005, the annual index produced by the Washington DC-based Fund for Peace has ranked 178 countries based on measures of their stability and the pressures they face. The vast amount of information acquisition and interpreta...
