COMMENTARIES
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IPCS Review
Nepal and the Failed States Index
Yelisha Sharma · 30 Jul, 2013 · #4059 · Commentary
The Fund for Peace has been developing a Failed State Index since 2005. The most interesting feature of this index are the indicators it takes into account. The position of various states all over the world is analysed on the basis of...
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IPCS Debate
India, Sri Lanka and Maldives: The Tripartite Maritime Security Agreement and the Growing Chinese Influence
Iranga Kahangama · 30 Jul, 2013 · #4058 · Commentary
China and India continue to vie for maritime influence, as influence over the Indian Ocean Region (IOR) remains both commercially and strategically advantageous. However, India’s recent strategy includes developing regional cooperative mar...
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Af-Pak Diary
Talks with the Taliban: A Post Mortem
D Suba Chandran · 28 Jul, 2013 · #4057 · Commentary · Column
What was touted as the Doha process – negotiations with the Afghan Taliban -- appears to be dead now. There was a parallel initiative within Pakistan, between the government and the Teherik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), which also appear...
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India and Pakistan: Azm-e-Nau as a Response to the Cold Start
Ali Ahmed · 28 Jul, 2013 · #4056 · Commentary
The Pakistani Army has just completed its summer war games, Azm Nau IV. The press release has it that with the Azm-e-Nau series of exercises held since 2009, Pakistan has arrived at an answer to India’s Cold Start. Its distraction so far w...
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Afghanistan: Is The Absence of War a Substantial Condition for Peace?
Priyashree Andley · 26 Jul, 2013 · #4055 · Commentary
The post-Cold War period has witnessed a significant shift in the nature of conflict. The number of internal conflicts increased and the intensity of behaviour of parties has undergone change. The number of actors involved increased as various p...
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Bo Xilai: China's Trial of the Century
Namrata Hasija · 25 Jul, 2013 · #4054 · Commentary
Bo Xilai has been formally charged with bribery, embezzlement and abuse of power today according to Jinan City People’s Procuratorate in east China’s Shandong province. The indictment paper delivered to the Jinan City Intermediate Pe...
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Doha Dialogue, Obama’s Zero Option and the Afghan Future: Advantage Taliban
D Suba Chandran · 25 Jul, 2013 · #4053 · Commentary
Obama has floated another Zero Option (remember the earlier Prague speech on global nuclear disarmament that won him the Nobel?), this time on the number of American troops to stay in Afghanistan after 2014. This statement, whether bluff or thre...
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India: Al Qaeda's Call to Muslim Youth
Bibhu Prasad Routray · 24 Jul, 2013 · #4052 · Commentary
Its appellation bears close resemblance to a pre-existing evangelical video. On July 23, Al Qaeda's media arm, As-Sahab, released the English translation of a video statement it had posted in June 2013 calling upon the Indian Muslims to join...
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China and the US: Fifth Strategic and Economic Dialogue
Teshu Singh · 24 Jul, 2013 · #4051 · Commentary
The fifth annual China-US Strategic and Economic Dialogue (S&ED) was held in Washington D.C on 10-11 July 2013. Notably, the groundwork for the meeting was already done during the Xi-Obama meeting and further cemented by an article written b...
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J&K: Land grab of a different kind
Shujaat Bukhari · 24 Jul, 2013 · #4050 · Commentary
A high-level panel of state Legislative Council headed by its chairman Amrit Malhotra was in Delhi last week. On the face of it, it was not a pleasure trip as is attributed to all such committees of state legislature that take up visits outside th...
