COMMENTARIES
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Tali-Qaeda Reader
Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan: The Mehsud Breakaway
Riffath Khaji · 10 Jun, 2014 · #4503 · Commentary
On 28 May, 2014, the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) Wali-ur-Rehman faction led by Khan Said, also known as Sajna, announced its separation from the TTP, alleging that the current Mullah Fazlullah-led TTP is bombing public places using fake name...
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India-China Bilateral Under Narendra Modi
Srikanth Kondapalli · 10 Jun, 2014 · #4502 · Commentary
As the recently formed government in New Delhi is settling down, the domestic and external policies to be adopted are being worked out. While no specific blue print is available, one can take the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) election mani...
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Eagle Eye
US Foreign Policy: Rehashing Old Stances
Chintamani Mahapatra · 09 Jun, 2014 · #4501 · Commentary · Column
The foreign policy community’s anxious wait to hear US President Barack Obama make his foreign policy speech at the West Point Military Academy finally came to an end on 28 May, 2014. In his commencement address to the graduating military ...
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Dateline Islamabad
India-Pakistan: Faces in the Sand
Salma Malik · 09 Jun, 2014 · #4500 · Commentary · Column
Given how the economics-savvy boys in India and Pakistan have initiated their cross-border relations, looking at the next five years skeptically would be unfair. It started with Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif telephoning the then Indian P...
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Nuke Street
The Second Nuclear Age in the Asia Pacific
Sheel kant Sharma · 09 Jun, 2014 · #4499 · Commentary · Column
President Obama’s West Point speech in 2014 reflected a qualified fatigue with internationalist causes. The recent Chinese comment on North Korean threats about an impending test had an interesting term in cautioning its difficult but impo...
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The Strategist
The Perils of Strategic Narcissism
Vijay Shankar · 09 Jun, 2014 · #4498 · Commentary · Column
China’s rise has powered an impulse to military growth and unilateral intervention which in turn evokes anxieties and resistance by players in the same strategic milieu. The paradoxical effect is to undermine its own strategic standing.
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Generalship and the Northeast
Lt. Gen. Arvinder S Lamba · 06 Jun, 2014 · #4497 · Commentary
An article by Thangkhanlal Ngaihte, an independent researcher, draws a negative dimension in its exhortation of linking the appointment of a General to oversee the Northeast-specific ministry in a perspective of Generalship, and alleging that th...
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IPCS Discussion
China’s Foreign Policy Directions Under the New Leadership
Rheanna Mathews · 05 Jun, 2014 · #4496 · Commentary
Report
The Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies (IPCS) organised a panel discussion on the direction of the Chinese foreign policy under the country’s new leadership. The discussion took place at the IPCS Conference Room, and was led...
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J&K
The NC Revamp
Shujaat Bukhari · 05 Jun, 2014 · #4495 · Commentary
When National Conference president Farooq Abdullah put a Karakuli on the head of his son Omar Abdullah to announce his anointment as the new party president on June 23, 2002, he literally called it a day as far as his role in the party is concer...
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Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
BIMSTEC: An Interview with Amb Ranjit Gupta
Leonora Juergens · 04 Jun, 2014 · #4494 · Commentary
The transcript of an interview with Amb Ranjit Gupta, Distinguished Fellow, IPCS, and former Indian Ambassador to Thailand.
Amb Gupta, you have been significantly involved in the formation of the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Te...
