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Nuclear Weapon Ban Treaty: Addressing Normative Concerns
Shivani Singh. · 31 Aug, 2017 · #5350 · Commentary
Norms are
considered a product of behaviour and expectations, thereby playing a vital
role in international law and foreign policy. An example of such norm setting
was witnessed in the recently adopted Treaty on Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons,
20 ...
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IPCS Discussion
The Nuclear Future
Report. · 26 Aug, 2017 · #5348 · Commentary
Transcript of remarks made at the IPCS discussion, 'The Nuclear Future', on 8 August 2017.
Opening Remarks by the Chair
Ambassador (Retd) Salman Haidar
Patron, IPCS, & former Foreign Secretary of India
Th ...
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Eagle Eye
Testing the Trump-Modi Partnership
Chintamani Mahapatra. · 25 Aug, 2017 · #5346 · Commentary
The Doklam standoff between India and China is a serious test case for the maturing India-US strategic partnership, which has endured leadership changes in recent years in New Delhi and Washington.
China has recently emerged as a nuisance for ...
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Dateline Colombo
Sri Lanka: Leveraging the Politics of Geography
Asanga Abeyagoonasekera. · 22 Aug, 2017 · #5343 · Commentary
Rural Hambantota was once best known thanks to featuring in a book by Leonard Woolf in the early 20th century, and now, as a port shaping Sri Lankan politics. Woolf’s Village in the Jungle was the first novel in English literature to be written ...
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Trump's Afghanistan Strategy
Rana Banerji. · 22 Aug, 2017 · #5341 · Commentary
After procrastinating for almost five months, US President Donald Trump chose the symbolically significant platform of Fort Myers, Arlington to announce a shift from a “time-based to a conditions-based” strategy to support the Ashraf Ghan ...
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IPCS Discussion
Dealing with Dirty Wars
Report. · 19 Jul, 2017 · #5330 · Commentary
IPCS report on 'Dealing with Dirty Wars', a discussion held on 21 June 2017.
REMARKS BY THE CHAIR
Lt Gen (Retd) Syed Ata Hasnain
Member, Governing Council, IPCS, & former GOC, 15 Corps, Srinagar
There is ...
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Global Warming-Induced Migration: An International Convention Needed
John Schabedoth. · 14 Jul, 2017 · #5326 · Commentary
In recent years, reports on the first global warming-induced migration into New Zealand have accumulated. Two of the most prominent cases involved concerned nationals of the island states of Kiribati and Tuvalu applying for refugee status in New Ze ...
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Three Years of the Modi Government
India-US: Convergences and Divergences
Chintamani Mahapatra. · 21 Jun, 2017 · #5305 · Commentary
Narendra Modi's landslide victory in the 2014 general election raised many eyebrows in relevant circles about the future of India’s relations with the US. The United Progressive Alliance-II (UPA-II) government had already witnessed a ...
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Responsibility to Protect: Quo Vadis?
John Schabedoth. · 16 Jun, 2017 · #5297 · Commentary
The concept of responsibility to protect (R2P) intends limit state sovereignty in favour of a more effective protection of human rights. It does not have a legal effect that goes beyond the existing norms of public international law (PIL). Rather, ...
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Strategic Space
New NPR: Can It Break New Ground?
Manpreet Sethi. · 16 May, 2017 · #5285 · Commentary
As was expected with the arrival of President Trump to the White House, he put all US foreign policy issues under review. He has also called for a new Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) that is likely to be announced in 2018. The last NPR was brought out ...
