COMMENTARIES
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India and the NSG: Are the Outliers Justified in their Opposition?
Abhijit Iyer Mitra · 03 Jun, 2016 · #5053 · Commentary
While China’s opposition to India’s NSG membership is considered the main stumbling block, there is a powerful set of smaller countries perceived variously as “problem states” or as “Chinese fronts” in New Del...
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Strategic Space
Entry into the NSG: Getting Past the Doorman
Manpreet Sethi · 02 Jun, 2016 · #5052 · Commentary · Column
Doormen – big, burly individuals – at entrances of exclusive clubs impose entry regulations. They could deny you entry for not carrying the correct identity card, or for not entering as a couple. One particular country has assigned i...
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Education Reform in India: Emerging Trends
Sarral Sharma · 02 Jun, 2016 · #5051 · Commentary
The renewed focus on ‘Indianisation’ begs the question — how does the current component of Indianisation translate into education policy? This commentary will attempt to show the translation of rhetoric into policy in the state...
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Iran’s Economic Renaissance: Will the IRGC Profit?
Samanvya Hooda · 02 Jun, 2016 · #5050 · Commentary
Since 2006, Iran’s economy had grown more isolated following the imposition of sanctions related to its nuclear programme. The economic dynamics of sanctions forced Iran to restructure the economy in a way that minimised criminalisation. T...
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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...
