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  • Islamic State and South Asia: How Real is the Threat?
    Rajeshwari Krishnamurthy.    ·   27 Aug, 2014    ·    #4625    ·    Commentary    
    The rise of the Islamic State (IS) in Iraq and Syria is a game-changer in international affairs today. Their unprecedented rise and ability to fight in two countries simultaneously without suffering serious losses - while attracting more recruits - ...
  • Travails of Post Conflict Societies
    Cost of Peace
    D Suba Chandran.    ·   26 Aug, 2014    ·    #4622    ·    Commentary    
    While there have been enormous emphasis in studying the cost of war and the evil effects of conflict, in the recent period, there have been an emphasis on the cost of peace in terms of economic and political investments and its fallouts. Can ...
  • 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 ...
  • Securing Our Interests
    The New Silk Route
    D Suba Chandran.    ·   06 Aug, 2014    ·    #4615    ·    Commentary    
    Prof Mushtaq Kaw, a doyen of Central Asian studies in India and a well respected scholar, recently had published an essay on the above subject in one of the international journals. The essay critically examines the feasibility of the American proje ...
  • Dhaka Discourse
    Girl Summit Diplomacy and Bangladesh-UK Relations
    Delwar Hossain.    ·   18 Aug, 2014    ·    #4610    ·    Commentary    
    The first ever Girl Summit took place on 22 July 2014 in London, UK. The event was co-hosted by the government of UK and the UNICEF, and the summit was dedicated to confronting child, early and forced marriage (CEFM) and female genital mutilation ( ...
  • 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 ...
  • India-Bangladesh: Can the Maritime Boundary Resolution Rebuild Faith?
    Sonia Hukil.    ·   24 Jul, 2014    ·    #4589    ·    Commentary    
    The Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) in The Hague recently rendered its judgment in the India-Bangladesh maritime boundary dispute in the Bay of Bengal on 7 July. The Arbitral tribunal unanimously ruled in favour of Bangladesh, awarding 19,467 ...
  • Dateline Colombo
    India-Sri Lanka: Strengthening Regional Cooperation
    Asanga Abeyagoonasekera.    ·   04 Aug, 2014    ·    #4595    ·    Commentary    
    August marks the death anniversary of the late Lakshman Kadirgamar, a remarkable Foreign Minister brutally assassinated by the LTTE. He once said, “India and Sri Lanka relationship is lost in the mist of time,” which signifies the deep ...
  • 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 ...
  • BRICS: China’s End-Game
    Teshu Singh.    ·   31 Jul, 2014    ·    #4587    ·    Commentary    
    The recently held BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) Summit (14-16 July 2014) is representative of developing countries and forty per cent of the world's population. It is also a successful non-Western international organisa ...
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