COMMENTARIES
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What are the Prospects for a Pakistan-US Nuclear Deal?
Urmi Tat · 05 Jan, 2016 · #4953 · Commentary
The South Asian region has become the focus of global politics, with the proliferation of unaccountable non-state actors, corruption of civilian institutions and the prevailing atmosphere of mutual suspicion between India and Pakistan. The posse...
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Japan-South Korea: Resolving the Comfort Women Issue
Dr Sandip Kumar Mishra · 04 Jan, 2016 · #4952 · Commentary
On 28 December 2015, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe extended an apology on the comfort women issue to victims in South Korea via Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida. Japan also promised to officially provide US$ 8.3 million to South Korea to esta...
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West Asia
Has the Rise and Growth of the Islamic State Benefitted Iran?
Kimberley Anne Nazareth · 29 Dec, 2015 · #4951 · Commentary
The recent attacks in Paris, triggered by the ever growing Islamic State (IS) has caused a great deal of concern not only among the Western nations but in the Persian Gulf as well. The event has questioned the success of the US-led coalition as ...
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Madhesi Demands in Nepal: Is there an End in Sight?
Pramod Jaiswal · 22 Dec, 2015 · #4950 · Commentary
The Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Nepal Kamal Thapa has officially informed the Indian Minister of External Affairs that the Nepalese Cabinet has takensome important decisions to address and resolve demands regarding the Constitu...
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Red Affairs
Anti-Maoist Operations in Chhattisgarh: Successes and Claims of Successes
Bibhu Prasad Routray · 21 Dec, 2015 · #4949 · Commentary · Column
Conforming to the speculations that New Delhi under the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government would adopt a hardline approach against left-wing extremism, a two month-long operation is underway in worst affected Chhattisgarh to dislodge ...
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Dateline Colombo
China Prepares for a Modern War
Asanga Abeyagoonasekera · 18 Dec, 2015 · #4948 · Commentary · Column
"Under the leadership of the Communist Party, our military has gone from small to big, from weak to strong, from victory to victory. On this road, reform and innovation steps have never stopped."
President Xi Jinping
In 1919...
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1971 War
Reflections on International Relations and Indian Leadership
Lt Gen Arvinder Singh Lamba · 18 Dec, 2015 · #4947 · Commentary
The 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War was a rebellion and armed conflict sparked by the rise of the Bengali nationalist and self-determination movement in the then East Pakistan, and fuelled by the genocide by Pakistan Military against Bengali popu...
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1971 War
Analysing International Intervention as a Concept Today
Lt Gen (Retd) Syed Ata Hasnain · 16 Dec, 2015 · #4946 · Commentary
The UN Charter says, “[n]othing contained in the present Charter shall authorize the United Nations to intervene in matters which are essentially within the domestic jurisdiction of any state...” The principle does not rule out the a...
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Joint IPCS-Oval Observer Round-Table
Discussion Report: India’s Role in Building a Counter-Narrative to Isis Propaganda
Report · 16 Dec, 2015 · #4945 · Commentary
On 9 December 2015, the Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies (IPCS), in collaboration with the Oval Observer Foundation, conducted a round-table discussion, titled ‘India’s Role in Building a Counter-Narrative to ISIS Propaganda&r...
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The US’ Tilt towards India: Overview and Projections
Md Farijuddin Khan · 16 Dec, 2015 · #4944 · Commentary
The US policy towards India has hardly been predictable. At the moment, the US’ India policy is guided purely by its commercial and strategic regional interests. However, the New Delhi-Washington bilateral has transformed from a fissured p...
