COMMENTARIES
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Election Analysis
India: Four States, Five Trends
Dr D Suba Chandran · 31 May, 2016 · #5049 · Commentary
On 19 May 2016, the results of legislative assembly elections of four Indian states – two from South India (Kerala and Tamil Nadu) and two from the east (West Bengal and Assam) – were announced. While there were no big surprises in t...
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7th Congress of the Workers’ Party of Korea: Outcomes and Implications
Shreya Singh · 31 May, 2016 · #5048 · Commentary
9 May 2016 concluded the 7th Worker’s Party of Korea (WPK) Congress in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK). Although the four-day meet could be summed up as lengthy speeches replete with even lengthier socialist jargon, ...
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India-Nepal
Contextualising KP Oli’s India and China Visits
Pramod Jaiswal · 31 May, 2016 · #5047 · Commentary
Nepal has traditionally played India against China to maximise its benefits. Has Nepalese Prime Minister Khadga Prasad (KP) Sharma Oli been doing the same? How?
Prime Minister Oli paid his first foreign visit to New Delhi before visiting Beij...
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India vs Pakistan: Why can’t we just be friends?
Book Review: "Much Ado About Nothing"
Rana Banerji · 31 May, 2016 · #5046 · Commentary
Title: India vs Pakistan: Why can’t we just be friends?
Author: Husain Haqqani
Publisher: Juggernaut Books, New Delhi, India, 2016
Apart from the rather melodramatic disclosure of former Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate ...
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The Strategist
Barbarism and the Smell of Cordite
Vijay Shankar · 30 May, 2016 · #5045 · Commentary · Column
Aggregation of power is never more apparent than when there is dramatic increase in state controlled power-activism. Equally impactful is the growing disregard for moral principles when power (political, corporate or military) is exercised. The ...
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Chinese Military Modernisation: Takeaways from the Pentagon Report
Bhartendu Kumar Singh · 30 May, 2016 · #5044 · Commentary
Every year, the American Department of Defence (Pentagon) publishes a report on the military and security developments of China under the National Defence Authorisation Act (2000). The report is supposed to address the current and probable futur...
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India-Taiwan Relations: What is the Way Forward?
Sumit Kumar Jha · 30 May, 2016 · #5043 · Commentary
The Modi government took many foreign policy initiatives to deepen India’s ties with the rest of the world soon after coming to power. One was to foster closer ties with the East Asian countries under its Act East policy. However in May 20...
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J&K Focus
Governance & Strategic Communication: Keys to Stabilising J&K
Lt Gen (Retd) Syed Ata Hasnain · 30 May, 2016 · #5042 · Commentary · Column
With the durbar back in Srinagar, one of the first things the new government did was to convene a meeting of the Unified Command. That is most sensible because an early stock-taking of the situation and planning for contingencies for the summer ...
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Nuke Street
Why China is Using NPT to Block India's Entry into the NSG
Sheel kant Sharma · 27 May, 2016 · #5041 · Commentary · Column
There is unusual and shocking stridence in China's very vocal stand, and its timing, demanding adherence to the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) as the criterion for India's membership of the Nuclear Suppliers Group. Such insistence on bei...
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Obama in Vietnam: Only Permanent Interests
Amruta Karambelkar · 27 May, 2016 · #5040 · Commentary
The US and Vietnam are the strangest bedfellows in the Asia Pacific. US President Barack Obama’s visit to Vietnam received wide attention, particularly because of the lifting of the embargo on the sale of lethal weapons to Vietnam. The ban...
