COMMENTARIES
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East Asia Compass
Six-Party Talks 2.0: Not for Denuclearisation but for Peace
Dr Sandip Kumar Mishra · 04 Jul, 2016 · #5072 · Commentary · Column
North Korea seems to be adamant to seek further sophistication in its nuclear weaponisation programme, despite international pressure and sanctions to the contrary. Through its fourth nuclear test in January 2016, it wanted to demonstrate to the...
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Prisons in India: Better Custodial Care Needed for the Marginalised
Saumitra Mohan · 28 Jun, 2016 · #5071 · Commentary
Prison administration is an inalienable part of our justice delivery system which, many feel, calls for urgent relook and attention. The prison administration in India has existed almost unchanged since its inception though a nomenclatural chang...
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Dateline Islamabad
Gendering Strategic Discourses: Women as Opinion-Makers
Salma Malik · 28 Jun, 2016 · #5070 · Commentary · Column
Speaking recently at a UN plenary on the subject of ‘women in disarmament’, it was indeed a matter of great pride and honour as the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva was presided by a woman ambassador who happened to be Pakistan&rs...
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Rightsizing the Armed Forces: Problems and Prospects
Bhartendu Kumar Singh · 28 Jun, 2016 · #5069 · Commentary
Until last year, manpower reductions did not figure in Indian military modernisation discourse, though its centrality is well established in revolution in military affairs (RMA) worldwide. Instead, the Indian preference was for the recruitment o...
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Dhaka Discourse
India-Bangladesh Post Assembly Elections in West Bengal and Assam
Delwar Hossain · 24 Jun, 2016 · #5068 · Commentary · Column
People from every corner of Bangladesh closely observed the 2016 assembly elections in the Indian states of West Bengal and Assam. These two state elections in India had generated huge interest and enthusiasm in Bangladesh about the future direc...
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Obama's Syria Policy: The Dynamics of Engagement
Priyama Chakravarty · 23 Jun, 2016 · #5067 · Commentary
One of US President Barack Obama's core campaign promises during the 2008 Presidential election was a military withdrawal from Iraq and Afghanistan. Following through, his actions seem to have prioritised diplomacy over interventionist milit...
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The Strategist
There is a New Symphony at Play
Vijay Shankar · 22 Jun, 2016 · #5066 · Commentary · Column
Change, more often than not, is driven by circumstances rather than scholastic deliberation. As President Obama once put it, perhaps as an unintended barb to the legions of geopolitical seers that stalk Massachusetts Avenue, Washington DC, &ldqu...
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Complementing the Foreign Policy Establishment
The Rise of Think-Tanks in India
Dr D Suba Chandran · 21 Jun, 2016 · #5065 · Commentary
Suhasini Haidar in her recent commentary (South Block in the Shade) in The Hindu has highlighted an interesting foreign policy phenomenon in India – the rise of think-tanks. Though she sees it as a factor in checking the Indian Ministry of...
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Red Affairs
The Re-cleansing of Nallamala
Bibhu Prasad Routray · 20 Jun, 2016 · #5064 · Commentary · Column
In the latest of the state's march against the left-wing extremists, the Andhra Pradesh police in June 2016 declared the Nallamala forests 'extremist free'. In a media statement, the state police claimed to have been able to deal wit...
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Bangladesh War Crime Executions: Reconciliation or Revenge?
Summaiya Khan · 20 Jun, 2016 · #5063 · Commentary
The recent death sentences awarded to Motiur Rahman Nizami, Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujahid and Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury, the top leaders of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and Jamaat-e-Islami, have triggered mixed reactions within the coun...
