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Can Prime Minister Tarique Rahman Overcome Past Obstacles to Reset Bangladesh-India Relations?
Prerana Priyadarshi. · 03 Mar, 2026 · #5905 · Commentary
As Bangladesh prepares for its political transition under the newly elected Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Prime Minister, Tarique Rahman, following nearly eighteen months of being led by an unelected interim government, early signs point to a po ...
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BIMSTEC: Reviving Global Climate Leadership through Regional Minilateralism
Tapan Bharadwaj.. · 25 Jan, 2026 · #5902 · Commentary
Though hailed as the “implementation COP,” COP30 in Brazil this year, like its earlier iterations, concluded without any clear plans for future action. Weak climate leadership and poor implementation have become a clear pattern at annual COP meet ...
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Pakistan’s Internal Securitisation is the Real Crisis
Muneer Ahmed. · 29 Aug, 2025 · #5894 · Commentary
For generations, Pakistanis have lived with security shaping many aspects of daily life. Now, as internal pressures mount, the grip of securitisation may tighten even more. Pakistan being increasingly governed by the dynamics of internal securitisati ...
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Strategic Space
25 Years of Nuclear India and Pakistan: Crisis Communications Must be Made a Priority
Manpreet Sethi. · 25 May, 2023 · #5849 · Commentary
In May 1998, two
countries, India and Pakistan, emerged as states with nuclear weapons. They
also happened to be neighbours with disputed territorial claims. International
reactions not only criticised and imposed sanctions on both, but also expre ...
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What the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework Is and Isn’t
Riya Shah. · 15 Sep, 2022 · #5830 · Commentary
In May 2022, US President Joe Biden
unveiled the much-awaited Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for
Prosperity (IPEF). Launched on the sidelines of the Quad Summit in Tokyo, Biden
was joined in-person by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Japan ...
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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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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 ...
