COMMENTARIES
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Indo-Pacific
Indonesia's Pacific Identity: What Jakarta Must Do in West Papua
Shankari Sundararaman · 17 Dec, 2014 · #4781 · Commentary · Column
The Indo-Pacific is a term gaining wider acceptance as a geopolitical reality. If any country has the advantage of being at the centre of this emerging identity, it is Indonesia. This vast archipelagic region strides the two oceans – ...
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Himalayan Frontier
Constitution-making: Will Nepal Miss its Second Deadline?
Pramod Jaiswal · 15 Dec, 2014 · #4780 · Commentary · Column
With just a few weeks left to meet the 22 January, 2015 deadline for the promulgation of the constitution, the President of Nepal, Ram Baran Yadav, is busy asking the lawmakers to fulfill their commitments.
Contentious Issues
The c...
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Indian Ocean: Why India Seeks Demilitarisation
Vijay Sakhuja · 15 Dec, 2014 · #4779 · Commentary
In his remarks at the 2014 Galle Dialogue in Sri Lanka, Indian National Security Advisor Ajit Doval alluded to the 1971 UN General Assembly Resolution 2832 (XXVI) which declared the Indian Ocean a ‘Zone of Peace’ (ZoP) and called on ...
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Spotlight West Asia
Rise of the Islamic State: Implications for the Arab World
Ranjit Gupta · 15 Dec, 2014 · #4778 · Commentary · Column
Though it is going to take a long time to defeat the Islamic State (IS), and it must be defeated, some silver linings of the very dark cloud the IS represents are beginning to be hazily visible over the horizon.
Since the proclamation of the ...
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Red Affairs
Maoist Attack on the CRPF: Time for New Counter-strategies
Bibhu Prasad Routray · 15 Dec, 2014 · #4777 · Commentary · Column
The 1 December 2014 killing of 14 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel in Chhattisgarh's Sukma district by the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) should invariably go down as one of the country's worst security force o...
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Dhaka Discourse
18th SAARC Summit: A Perspective from Bangladesh
Delwar Hossain · 15 Dec, 2014 · #4776 · Commentary · Column
After a three-year gap, leaders of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) met in a Summit held in Kathmandu, Nepal, on 26-27 November 2014. It was an occasion to assess SAARC’s efforts to consolidate regionalism in So...
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Strategic Space
India-Russia Nuclear Vision Statement: See that it Delivers
Manpreet Sethi · 15 Dec, 2014 · #4775 · Commentary · Column
As expected, Russian President Valdimir Putin and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi covered all the usual areas of cooperation during the former’s visit to New Delhi on 11 December, 2014. Russia has been India’ close partner over d...
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China and the Uyghur Issue: Can the New Silk Route Really Help?
Rajeshwari Krishnamurthy · 13 Dec, 2014 · #4774 · Commentary
Today, with the increasing threat of Islamist terrorism due to the rise and reach of the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq, sections of societies in Central Asia, South Asia, and West Asia are getting increasingly radicalised. Will China succeed i...
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Pak-Afghan Reset: Will the Taliban and al Qaeda follow?
D Suba Chandran · 11 Dec, 2014 · #4773 · Commentary
Following the visits of Pakistan’s National Security Advisor, Chief of Army Staff and the ISI Chief to Kabul, and then of the new Afghan President Ashraf Ghani to Islamabad – all in space of last two months, there seems to be a posit...
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J&K: Modi Couldn’t do a Vajpayee in SK Stadium
Shujaat Bukhari · 09 Dec, 2014 · #4772 · Commentary
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s public meeting in Srinagar on Monday (December 8) was not a routine election meeting. It was surely a significant one since BJP has never put up a show of strength in the capital city like this. Modi had chos...
