COMMENTARIES
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Strategic Space
Same Age, Different Behaviour: Nuclear India and Nuclear Pakistan
Manpreet Sethi · 16 May, 2016 · #5029 · Commentary · Column
On 11 and 13 May, India completed 18 years as a nuclear-armed state. A couple of weeks from now Pakistan will do so too. And yet despite sharing the same age as overt nuclear weapons states, the two countries are far apart in their understanding...
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Dateline Colombo
Remembering Tagore in Turbulent Times
Asanga Abeyagoonasekera · 13 May, 2016 · #5028 · Commentary · Column
“I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door - or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.”
Rabindranath Tagor...
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WTO Verdict: A Roadblock to India’s National Solar Mission?
Ateetmani Brar · 13 May, 2016 · #5027 · Commentary
In February 2013, the US filed a complaint at the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) challenging the Indian government’s Domestic Content Requirements (DCR) for solar cells and modules under the latter’s ongoing National Solar Mi...
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Spotlight West Asia
West Asia, US, and Obama’s Statesman-like Legacy
Ranjit Gupta · 10 May, 2016 · #5026 · Commentary · Column
The US has been the main architect and central pole of the West Asian security landscape since World War II. It has sought to maintain security through a web of bilateral and regional military alliances and militaristic solutions to political pr...
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East Asia Compass
North Korea’s 7th Party Congress: Context and Content
Dr Sandip Kumar Mishra · 10 May, 2016 · #5025 · Commentary · Column
After a long gap, North Korea is holding the 7th Workers’ Party Congress from 6 May. There are more than a hundred journalists from various countries who have been invited to report the event - but there is not much reporting about the act...
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IPCS Discussion
Who Sets the Table: Negotiated Sovereignty and the Indo-Naga Relationship
Report · 06 May, 2016 · #5024 · Commentary
On 2 May 2016, the Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies (IPCS) conducted a round-table discussion, titled ‘Who Sets the Table: Negotiated Sovereignty and the Indo-Naga Relationship’. This is a report of the proceedings.
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IPCS Discussion
A Changing Myanmar: Challenges, Opportunities & Future Perspectives
Report · 03 May, 2016 · #5023 · Commentary
On 1 March 2016, the Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies (IPCS) conducted a round-table discussion, titled ‘A Changing Myanmar: Challenges, Opportunities & Future Perspectives’. This is a report of the proceedings.
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Iran, US and the JCPOA: Fidelity to the Cause
Ruhee Neog · 27 Apr, 2016 · #5022 · Commentary
The sanctions imposed on Iran are arguably the most focused and effective in modern history. In fact, if there is one adjective that appears to be unanimously favoured by commentators when describing them, it is “crippling.”
It wa...
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Acting East: Securing the India-Myanmar Border
Angshuman Choudhury · 27 Apr, 2016 · #5021 · Commentary
Almost a year before 20 soldiers of the Indian Army's 6th Dogra Regiment were killed in a brutal offensive by Naga-Manipuri militants along the India-Myanmar border in Manipur's Chandel district, the Indian Minister of External Affairs S...
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Toying with China’s Demons: The Dos and the Don’ts
Bhavna Singh · 27 Apr, 2016 · #5020 · Commentary
It would be China’s worst nightmare come true if two of its most explosive domestic trouble-makers were to turn into a united menace. The Tibetans and the Uyghurs have for long battled against the repressive policies of the state in their ...
