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Book Review
A Practitioner’s Expert View of India’s Relationship with Pakistan
Rana Banerji. · 25 Aug, 2022 · #5826 · Commentary
It
is heartening to see Indian career diplomats of recent vintage penning their
understanding of the complex India-Pakistan relationship. Soon after The People Next Door (Harper Collins, 2017) by T.C.A. Raghavan, India’s high
commissioner in Isl ...
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Middle Kingdom
Gunboat Diplomacy with Chinese Characteristics: Why the Yuan Wang 5’s Arrival in Sri Lanka is Consequential for South Asia
Srikanth Kondapalli. · 22 Aug, 2022 · #5825 · Commentary
Despite serious reservations
expressed by both Sri Lanka and India,
and after a clearance
delay of five days,
China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Strategic Support Force vessel Yuan Wang 5 finally docked
at Chinese-leased Hambantota port ...
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Climate Resilience and the Quad
Akash Ramnath. · 30 Jun, 2022 · #5821 · Commentary
Members of the Quad met in Tokyo in May this
year to discuss the most urgent matters impacting Indo-Pacific security, namely
China's regional growth and the continuing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. The
Quad or Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, c ...
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Red Affairs
The CPI-Maoist and the Inevitability of its Violent End
Bibhu Prasad Routray. · 31 May, 2022 · #5818 · Commentary
Since the formation of the Communist Party of
India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) in 2004, the two decade-long war on left-wing
extremism (LWE) by various Indian states has been marked by sporadic calls for
peace talks. The latest was Chief Minister of Chha ...
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Red Affairs
Online Maoist Propaganda: How India Should Respond
Bibhu Prasad Routray. · 30 Apr, 2022 · #5815 · Commentary
Extremist organisations have long tended to
use the Internet to emphasise their strengths and gloss over their weaknesses. It
is thus not surprising that there is no fixed pattern to the intensity of
extremist propaganda. This is true both in the ...
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East Asia Compass
Testing the Strength of India-Japan Relations
Dr Sandip Kumar Mishra. · 26 Apr, 2022 · #5814 · Commentary
Japanese
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida visited India in March this year. In a joint press
conference with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Kishida raised the issue
of Russia’s “aggression”
with Ukraine. The difference between the Japanes ...
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Red Affairs
Why is the CPI-Maoist Most Violent in Jharkhand?
Bibhu Prasad Routray. · 31 Jan, 2022 · #5805 · Commentary
Current assessments indicate that the Communist
Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) is a poor caricature of its former self and mostly
operating on survival mode. How is the group adjusting to this reality? Is it making
efforts to revive itself? Is ...
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Decadal Trends 2010-2020
India in its Neighbourhood
Ashutosh Nagda. · 29 Dec, 2021 · #5802 · Commentary
Geographically,
the neighbourhood is typically a country’s first point of diplomacy. India’s
relationship with its neighbouring countries (NCs)—Afghanistan, Bangladesh,
Bhutan, Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka—has similarly ...
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Strategic Space
From Bangladesh to Balakot: The Impact of Nuclear Weapons on India-Pakistan Dynamics
Manpreet Sethi. · 14 Dec, 2021 · #5799 · Commentary
Swarnim Vijay Varsh was celebrated throughout 2021 to mark 50 years of India’s
victory against Pakistan in the 1971 war. The three services commemorated their
successes: the Indian Air Force’s achievement of complete air superiority, its extens ...
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The Strategist
Quad and AUKUS: Compacts to Collar China
Vice Admiral Vijay Shankar. · 30 Nov, 2021 · #5797 · Commentary
A historical analogy may be necessary
to fully understand the looming conflict between Chinese authoritarianism and
the uneasy democracies of the world. In the run up to the First World War,
Germany pursued a combination of militarism, overbearing ...
