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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. Op...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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 ...
  • Spotlight West Asia
    Modi in Saudi Arabia: Consolidating Ties in West Asia
    Ranjit Gupta    ·   14 Apr, 2016    ·    #5019    ·    Commentary    ·   Column
    Some contextual background is essential to properly appreciate the significance of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s 02-03 April 2016 Saudi Arabia visit. Saudi Arabia and Pakistan have had a particularly special one-of-a-kind relati...
  • Looking East
    A Vote For A New Assam?
    Wasbir Hussain    ·   14 Apr, 2016    ·    #5018    ·    Commentary    ·   Column
    The Assam Assembly elections, that concluded on Monday, 11 April, witnessed an unprecedented polling with the turnout touching almost 85 per cent. This has been the highest-ever polling in any form of election in the state. Which party comes to ...
  • India's Air Power Crisis
    Abhijit Iyer-Mitra    ·   11 Apr, 2016    ·    #5017    ·    Commentary    
    Troubles, They come in Battalions is the latest report by the Carnegie Endowment for Peace on the Indian Air Force (IAF). The substance of the report is divided into five sections, dealing with the supposedly aggravating threat environment, a wo...
  • China’s Nepal Game: Oli’s Visit and Thereafter
    Bhartendu Kumar Singh    ·   11 Apr, 2016    ·    #5016    ·    Commentary    
    It is not economic but strategic considerations that propel China’s policy towards Nepal. This hypothesis was  reaffirmed when Nepalese Prime Minister KP Oli visited Beijing recently between 20-27 March 2016. During the visit, although ...
  • Ashton Carter’s India Visit: What is the Agenda?
    Vivek Mishra    ·   11 Apr, 2016    ·    #5015    ·    Commentary    
    An enviable consistency has come to characterise Indo-US relations for some time now, with the bilateral defence relationship spearheading other areas of cooperation between the two countries. The US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter's three-d...
  • Lahore Attack: An Expansion of the TTP's Target Profile?
    Riffath Khaji    ·   11 Apr, 2016    ·    #5014    ·    Commentary    
    On 27 March 2016, a suicide  attack by the Jamaat-ul-Ahrar (JuA), a Tehreek-i-Taliban (TTP) faction, at Gulshan-i-Iqbal Park in Lahore killed 70 people and injured 250, The JuA spokesperson, Ehsanullah Ehsan, reportedly claimed that the tar...
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