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  • Bangladesh-US: Long Term Agendas over Short Term Fall-Outs
    Dibya Shikha.    ·   30 Apr, 2014    ·    #4420    ·    Commentary    
    The Bangladesh-US bilateral has seen troubled times in the recent period. What are the current deadlocks between the two? Is there scope for rapprochement in the relationship? Troubles in the Bilateral Several issues have created a discord ...
  • Dateline Colombo
    Ethnic Reconciliation: Learning from the Rwandan Experience
    Asanga Abeyagoonasekera.    ·   05 May, 2014    ·    #4423    ·    Commentary    
    In May 2014, the nation of Rwanda commemorates the twentieth year of its brutal massacre. In one of the most cruel and inhumane moments of history to date, the Hutus massacred 800,000 to 1 million Tutsis as well as moderate Hutus within a hundred ...
  • Himalayan Frontier
    Nepal: Challenges to Constitution-Making
    Pramod Jaiswal.    ·   05 May, 2014    ·    #4422    ·    Commentary    
    The Unified Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist (UCPN-M), the single largest party from the first Constituent Assembly (CA) election, is in a dilemma after suffering a setback in the second CA election. The party seems to have lost direction and is in ...
  • India-China: A Water War over the Brahmaputra?
    Roomana Hukil.    ·   30 Apr, 2014    ·    #4415    ·    Commentary    
    Recently, Claude Arpi, renowned scholar on China wrote about how China’s aspirations to divert the waters of the Brahmaputra River were feeding into mounting disagreements between New Delhi and Beijing. China has consistently been moving ahea ...
  • Piracy and Floating Armouries in the Indian Ocean: Risk or a Solution?
    Riddhi K Shah.    ·   23 Apr, 2014    ·    #4406    ·    Commentary    
    Rising trends in piracy in the Indian Ocean, off the coast of Somalia, over the last few years have forced States to adopt innovative and collaborative approaches as effective counter-measures.The once tabooed private military security companies (P ...
  • India-Bangladesh Relations: Significance of the Teesta Water-Sharing Agreement
    Roomana Hukil.    ·   23 Apr, 2014    ·    #4403    ·    Commentary    
    During the recent meeting between an Indian delegation and Bangladeshi Foreign Secretary Shahidul Haque in Delhi, the entire gamut of bilateral relations and Mamata Banerjee’s scepticism towards the Teesta agreement were discussed. Will t ...
  • Jamaat-e-Islami in Bangladesh: Where To From Here?
    Dibya Shikha.    ·   22 Apr, 2014    ·    #4402    ·    Commentary    
    The High Court of Bangladesh declared the Jamaat-e-Islami in Bangladesh as illegal in August 2013 on the grounds that the party’s charter was against the secular provision of the 1972 constitution. The election commission did not allow the pa ...
  • IPCS Discussion
    The Indo-Pacific Region: Political and Strategic Prospects
    .    ·   21 Apr, 2014    ·    #4397    ·    Commentary    
    A review of the ICWA volume, ‘Indo-Pacific Region: Political and Strategic Prospects’, edited by Ambassador Rajiv K Bhatia and Dr Vijay Sakhuja, organised by the IPCS in collaboration with the Centre for Canadian, US & Latin Am ...
  • Dhaka Discourse
    India-Bangladesh: Enhancing Ties through a ‘Power Corridor’
    Delwar Hossain.    ·   21 Apr, 2014    ·    #4394    ·    Commentary    
    The issue of a ‘power corridor’ has sparked a new debate in Bangladesh-India bilateral relations. Bangladesh has agreed in principle to provide India a ‘power corridor’ to help its neighbour link its north eastern and north ...
  • Is Bangladesh’s foreign policy becoming India and Russia-centric?
    Harun ur Rashid.    ·   15 Apr, 2014    ·    #4390    ·    Commentary    
    On 27 March, Bangladesh abstained from voting at the UN General Assembly resolution on Russia’s annexation of Crimea. While 100 countries voted in favour of the resolution, 11 opposed it. Bangladesh, alongside 57 others abstained, and eventua ...
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