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  • Nuke Street
    Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Musings on the Bomb
    Sheel kant Sharma.    ·   21 Aug, 2014    ·    #4621    ·    Commentary    
    August is the month of remembrance of the ghastly tragedy of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Such remembrance is far from a mere annual routine of some ritual happenings – there is no dearth of moral, ethical, legal or humanitarian condemnation of th ...
  • Assessing US-India Relations: A Perspective from China
    Bo Zhen.    ·   20 Aug, 2014    ·    #4619    ·    Commentary    
    Three US political heavyweights - Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker, Secretary of State John Kerry and Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel - just visited India successively within a fortnight. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to visit the U ...
  • China’s Meddling in the Brahmaputra: India’s Options
    Abanti Bhattacharya.    ·   19 Aug, 2014    ·    #4613    ·    Commentary    
    The Brahmaputra River is likely to emerge as a new contentious front embroiling India and China. This dispute will be more deleterious given its entanglement with the India-China border issue. Earlier this year, Vice President Hamid Ansari’s ...
  • Indian Ocean: Multilateralism Takes Root
    Vijay Sakhuja.    ·   19 Aug, 2014    ·    #4612    ·    Commentary    
    India will host the Indian Ocean Dialogue (IOD) at Kochi, Kerala in September to discuss issues of maritime safety and security in the Indian Ocean. The initiative emerges from the 13th meeting of the Council of Ministers in Perth, Australia held i ...
  • South Asian Dialectic
    Modi’s Tryst with Abe
    PR Chari.    ·   18 Aug, 2014    ·    #4606    ·    Commentary    
    Modi’s first foray outside South Asia was to Brazil to attend the sixth BRICS Summit on 15-16 July. This gave him the opportunity to meet President Xi Jinping and President Vladimir Putin. Incidentally, he was to visit Japan in early July. Bu ...
  • Indo-Pacific
    South China Sea: Intransigence Over Troubled Waters
    Shankari Sundararaman.    ·   18 Aug, 2014    ·    #4605    ·    Commentary    
    Last week, the Foreign Ministers of ASEAN and its dialogue partners gathered at Naypyidaw, Myanmar, for the 47th ASEAN Foreign Ministers Meeting followed by the 21st ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) and 4th East Asia Summit Foreign Ministers Meetings (EA ...
  • Obama’s Russian Dilemma
    Amit Gupta.    ·   12 Aug, 2014    ·    #4603    ·    Commentary    
    Has the shooting down of MH-17 heralded the start of a new Cold War? Observers in the west have likened the situation in Europe to 1914 and the hawks in Western Europe and North America have been calling for tougher sanctions against Russia. Caught i ...
  • The Strategist
    A Covenant Sans Sword
    Vijay Shankar.    ·   11 Aug, 2014    ·    #4600    ·    Commentary    
    Power and Self-Preservation Hobbes underscored the need to establish an aura of awe and visible power in order that men do not degenerate to their natural anarchic passions. He said, “And covenants without the sword are but words and are of ...
  • Maritime Matters
    BRICS: The Oceanic Connections
    Vijay Sakhuja.    ·   04 Aug, 2014    ·    #4594    ·    Commentary    
    At the 6th summit at Fortaleza in Brazil, the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) countries announced a seed capital of US$50 billion and US$100 billion Contingent Reserve Arrangement (CRA) for the New Development Bank which would ...
  • East Asia Compass
    North Korea: Seeking New Friends?
    Dr Sandip Kumar Mishra.    ·   04 Aug, 2014    ·    #4592    ·    Commentary    
    North Korea appears to have become increasingly desperate in its behaviour. It executed its number two leader Jang Song-thaek in December 2013, called South Korean President Park Geun-hye a ‘prostitute’ and the US President a ‘pim ...
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