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  • Defining Trends from a Year of Conflict in West Asia
    Muneer Ahmed.    ·   17 Jan, 2025    ·    #5884    ·    Commentary    
    Since October 2023, violence in West Asia, particularly between Israel and factions in Gaza and Lebanon, has seen substantial escalation. This conflict has significantly reshaped the region, impacting not only military strategies but also diplomatic ...
  • Afghanistan: Concerns Regarding Political Prospects and Washington-Kabul Relations
    Fawad Poya and Bushra Tariq.    ·   29 Jun, 2020    ·    #5701    ·    Commentary    
    Developments in the run up to and post the signing of the February 2020 US-Taliban agreement have generated considerable concern regarding the political future of Afghanistan as well as regarding the prospects of the US-Afghanistan partnership, e ...
  • COVID-19 and the Insurgency in Kashmir
    Mohammed Sinan Siyech.    ·   13 May, 2020    ·    #5688    ·    Commentary    
    The COVID-19 pandemic has had a multi-dimensional impact across the world, including in conflict theatres. This commentary explores strategies that terror outfits might employ vis-à-vis the insurgency in Kashmir.Infiltration AttemptsThe most imme ...
  • Pakistan’s Afghanistan Policy and a Troubled Peace Process
    Dr Shalini Chawla.    ·   05 May, 2020    ·    #5684    ·    Commentary    
    While the world is engrossed in intensifying the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, Afghanistan’s peace process is finding it difficult to draw the necessary time and attention from the international community. The Taliban rejected the Afghan g ...
  • COVID-19: Calling an Olympic Truce on Global Conflict
    Tanvi Kulkarni..    ·   29 Apr, 2020    ·    #5681    ·    Commentary    
    Calling for a global ceasefire on conflicts around the world, in March 2020, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, said that the world is fighting a “common enemy” in COVID-19. However, this pandemic does not appear t ...
  • Climate Change: A National Security Threat Multiplier
    Yash Vardhan Singh.    ·   17 Mar, 2020    ·    #5661    ·    Commentary    
    Environmental risks arising from climate change are now considered to be powerful threat multipliers. The World Economic Forum’s Global Risk Report 2020 identifies five of the top ten global risks as being of an environmental nature, owing to th ...
  • Rehabilitating Surrendered Militants in J&K: Lessons from Past Experiences
    Shivangi Seth.    ·   09 Mar, 2020    ·    #5657    ·    Commentary    
    In 2018, New Delhi directed the then Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) Governor, Satya Pal Malik, to formulate a new surrender and rehabilitation policy for ex-militants to J&K, a draft of which was floated in 2019. Post the state’s reorganisatio ...
  • Kashmiri Pandits and J&K Reorganisation
    Shivangi Seth.    ·   22 Jan, 2020    ·    #5645    ·    Commentary    
    In early 2019, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi remarked about the injustice of the 1990 Kashmiri Pandit (KP) exodus and reiterated his commitment towards facilitating their dignified return to Kashmir. After Article 370 was abrogated in lat ...
  • IPCS Discussion
    Pakistan: The Balochistan Conundrum
    Discussion Report.    ·   20 Dec, 2019    ·    #5637    ·    Commentary    
    On 29 November 2019, IPCS hosted Tilak Devasher, Member, National Security Advisory Board, and Consultant, Vivekananda International Foundation, for a discussion on his latest book, ‘Pakistan: The Balochistan Conundrum’. The discussion was cha ...
  • Red Affairs
    It’s Still a Stalemate in the LWE Hotbed
    Bibhu Prasad Routray.    ·   18 Sep, 2019    ·    #5622    ·    Commentary    
    Weakened insurgencies tend to negotiate. Such decision may be a tactic to buy time, defer defeat, protect their leaders and cadres, or simply to salvage whatever little is possible in a war that these armed movements have no hope of winning. Bein ...
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