COMMENTARIES
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Bangladesh Post Elections 2014: What Went Wrong?
Harun ur Rashid · 15 Jan, 2014 · #4260 · Commentary
Since 1991 the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has either formed the government or the opposition in parliament. For the first time, BNP’s will not have a parliamentary presence because the party boycotted the January 2014 parliamentary...
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Middle Kingdom
China-Japan Friction: How can India Respond?
DS Rajan · 13 Jan, 2014 · #4259 · Commentary
The current trends make clear that tensions between China and Japan on political and strategic issues are increasing day by day. It is natural that Asia-Pacific nations, which have a big stake in guaranteeing regional stability and prosperity, a...
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Seminar Report
Conflict Early Warning: Contemporary Regional Environment & Implications for J&K
Ayesha Khanyari · 13 Jan, 2014 · #4258 · Commentary
Session I: Conflict Early Warning - Regional Security Environment
Chair: PR Chari, Visiting Professor, IPCS
Iran Nuclear Deal and Regional Security
Amb Ranjit Gupta
Former Indian Ambassador to Oman
The interim nuclear agreement is a di...
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India-US Relations: Khobragade Case Tests India's Resilence
C Uday Bhaskar · 13 Jan, 2014 · #4257 · Commentary
On 10 January, Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade, till recently the deputy consul general in New York returned to Delhi after being criminally indicted by a US court in a high-octane, hyper-visible visa fraud case related to her domestic maid t...
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The Strategist
Strategic Non-Nuclear Weapons: An Essential Consort to a Doctrine of No First Use
Vijay Shankar · 13 Jan, 2014 · #4256 · Commentary · Column
Politico-Military thought often harbours a puzzling phenomenon when it organises concepts and institutions in a mosaic of sometimes antithetical notions. Contrary ideas are indeed intrinsic to the art of political sagacity, but when form is defi...
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Nuke Street
Nuclear Power: An Annual Report Card
Sheel kant Sharma · 13 Jan, 2014 · #4255 · Commentary · Column
The global nuclear power scenario showed signs in 2013 of gradually emerging from the post-Fukushima freeze. The impact of Fukushima remained still formidable in Japan as the year saw the trickle of persistent bad news from the Daichi units in J...
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Eagle Eye
Indo-US Strategic Partnership Post Khobragade: The Long Shadow
Chintamani Mahapatra · 13 Jan, 2014 · #4254 · Commentary · Column
The Devyani Khobragade episode that took place in the backdrop of a strong strategic cooperation between the two countries has terribly hurt the Indian government and the people alike. The diplomatic discord between India and the US over the ind...
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Spotlight West Asia
The Arab World: Trying Times Ahead
Ranjit Gupta · 13 Jan, 2014 · #4253 · Commentary · Column
Though the spotlight on West Asia is understandably focused currently on the unquestionably exciting prospect of a welcome and desirable reconciliation between the US and Iran, which is more than likely to happen, contemporary ground realities a...
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Year in Review
Japan 2013: Abenomics
Angana Guha Roy · 13 Jan, 2014 · #4252 · Commentary
2013 turned out to be one of the most eventful years for Japan. Under Abe’s leadership, and with a revised security policy and an engaging foreign policy, Japan remained prominent in international diplomacy. It marked the completion of a y...
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Year in Review
South Asia’s 2013: A Time for Elections
Roomana Hukil · 13 Jan, 2014 · #4251 · Commentary
South Asia underwent a political wave that overpowered the other strategic discourses of the entire region in 2013. As most countries experienced grave political shifts with elections doing the rounds; others witnessed roadblocks in the form of ...
