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  • India and its Neighbourhood
    Foreign Policy Challenges for Modi
    Wasbir Hussain    ·   22 May, 2014    ·    #4463    ·    Commentary    
    The massive mandate that Indian Prime Minister-designate Narendra Modi has managed to secure for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is certainly a verdict against the status quo in India. The buoyant stock market demonstrated the confidence of the...
  • US in Asia Pacific
    Rebalancing: Implications of Japan’s Response
    Md Farijuddin Khan    ·   21 May, 2014    ·    #4462    ·    Commentary    
    Unlike the US or other great powers that focus on maintaining the ideological status quo or promoting an alternative world order, Japan’s interests in advancing the rebalancing strategy mainly focuses on the Japanese foreign policy of surv...
  • Pakistan
    TTP under Mullah Fazlullah: A Profile of Major Attacks
    Riffath Khaji    ·   21 May, 2014    ·    #4461    ·    Commentary    
    On 7 November 2013, following the death of Hakimullah Mehsud by the US’ drone strikes, Mullah Fazlullah, popularly known as Mullah Radio was elected as the new chief of the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). The geographic profile of their t...
  • South China Sea Dispute: China Unchallenged by ASEAN
    Samundeswari N    ·   21 May, 2014    ·    #4460    ·    Commentary    
    The coincidence of the China-Vietnam tussle and the ASEAN Summit of 2014 re-focused discussions on the South China Sea dispute but failed to create a significant impact. The foreign ministers of the ASEAN countries issued a standalone declaratio...
  • Uighur Unrest: Are China’s Policies Working?
    Rheanna Mathews    ·   21 May, 2014    ·    #4459    ·    Commentary    
    The recent bomb and knife attack on 30 April at a railway station in Urumqi, China has refocused the world’s attention on the Uighurs and the unrest in China’s north-western Xinjiang province. The government has blamed “extremi...
  • Media in Pakistan
    The War Against and Within
    D Suba Chandran    ·   14 May, 2014    ·    #4458    ·    Commentary    
    What had started as an attack against an individual journalist last month has now turned into a full blown war against the media, and unfortunately, also within. The situation is not only likely to worsen what the journalists within Pakistan are...
  • J&K
    The Poll Message: Loud and Clear
    Shujaat Bukhari    ·   21 May, 2014    ·    #4457    ·    Commentary    
    The results of just concluded elections to six Lok Sabha constituencies have come up with a mix of surprise and concern. While all the three seats in Kashmir valley have gone to opposition Peoples Democratic Party’s kitty, Ladakh and Jammu...
  • IPCS Review
    Myanmar: Is Tatmadaw Assuming a Proactive Role?
    Aparupa Bhattacherjee    ·   20 May, 2014    ·    #4456    ·    Commentary    
    The International Crisis Group’s (ICG) recent report, titled 'Myanmar’s Military: Back to the Barracks?’ has tried to elaborately update the readers on the role of Myanmar’s army – the Tatmadaw – in the co...
  • Statehood Demands in India’s Northeast: Is Bodoland Justifiable?
    Ruhee Neog    ·   20 May, 2014    ·    #4455    ·    Commentary    
    As anticipated, the creation of Telangana has had a destabilising domino effect on the rest of India. The most recent of these is the demand for a separate Bodoland to be carved out of Assam, which has intensified since the government announced ...
  • BCIM and BIMSTEC: Two Competing Initiatives for Northeast India?
    Leonora Juergens    ·   20 May, 2014    ·    #4454    ·    Commentary    
    In June 2014, the second meeting of the Bangladesh-China-India-Myanmar (BCIM) forum for economic cooperation will be held in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The idea of a BCIM economic corridor was primarily initiated by the 'Kunming Initiative' to e...
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