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  • China's Signaling Under President Xi Jinping
    Prashant Dikshit.    ·   06 Nov, 2017    ·    #5388    ·    Commentary    
    China's President Xi Jinping has now emerged supreme. The 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China consolidated his authority not just for five years but in, a certain view, for life. Normally, a reappointment of a head of state o ...
  • Will the US' Pressure on Pakistan Deliver Results?
    Sreejith S Nair.    ·   24 Oct, 2017    ·    #5383    ·    Commentary    
    The US-Pakistan relationship has been strained over the last six years. It  took an unyielding shift with the announcement of US President Donald Trump’s Afghanistan policy, which comprises four pillars and also touches upon Washington&r ...
  • Strategic Space
    Meaningful Disarmament, Not Unnecessary Distractions
    Manpreet Sethi.    ·   24 Oct, 2017    ·    #5382    ·    Commentary    
    The annual General Debate of the First Committee of the UN General Assembly provides a good forum for countries to reflect on relevant developments in the past year and to spell out their priorities or vision of action for the next year. In performin ...
  • Maritime Matters
    Plastic Litter: The Challenge at Sea
    Vijay Sakhuja.    ·   10 Oct, 2017    ·    #5381    ·    Commentary    
    A number of innovations and initiatives that are shaping the oceans and seas can potentially help ensure that these water bodies remain environmentally and ecologically stable. These range from greener and efficient vessels propelled by solar and w ...
  • The Future of US Troops in Afghanistan: Assessing Potential Roles
    Rajat Ahlawat.    ·   09 Oct, 2017    ·    #5379    ·    Commentary    
    In his new strategy for Afghanistan, US President Donald Trump recently decided on increasing the number of American troops in the country. He said a hasty withdrawal would create a power vacuum for the terrorists, which would pose a serious threat ...
  • The Strategist
    The Curious Case of USS McCain
    Vijay Shankar.    ·   04 Oct, 2017    ·    #5376    ·    Commentary    
    On 21 August 2017, in the darkness of astronomical twilight, USS John S McCain, a destroyer bound for Singapore after a sensitive ‘freedom-of-navigation’ operation off one of China’s illegal man-made islands in the South China Sea ( ...
  • An Interview with Dr Siegfried Hecker
    North Korea’s Nuclear Behaviour and US Diplomacy
    IPCS.    ·   30 Sep, 2017    ·    #5373    ·    Commentary    
    This is a modified version of an earlier interview conducted by Elisabeth Eaves for the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, and contains additional questions from Ruhee Neog for the Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies. Modified and reprinted wit ...
  • Special Commentary
    Weapons in Space: Conventional War in the Cosmos?
    Allyson Rimmer.    ·   26 Sep, 2017    ·    #5369    ·    Commentary    
    Outer space has been called the last frontier, but could it become the battleground of the future? Warfare in space seems difficult to imagine outside works of science fiction, but the concept and advantages of weapons in space have been under seri ...
  • Strategic Space
    The Bomb Banned: By and For the NNWS, For Now
    Manpreet Sethi.    ·   18 Sep, 2017    ·    #5364    ·    Commentary    
    As the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), popularly referred to as the Ban Treaty, opens for signature on 20 September 2017, it is most likely that it will garner the 50 endorsements that are necessary for its entry into force. Afte ...
  • East Asia Compass
    North Korea: Testing the Limits of US-South Korea Relations
    Dr Sandip Kumar Mishra.    ·   06 Sep, 2017    ·    #5357    ·    Commentary    
    North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un must be the happiest to see the state of South Korea-US relations. One of his fundamental desires is to create a rift between the US and South Korea, and he has been trying to achieve it consistently for years ...
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