COMMENTARIES
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Malaysia: A Comeback for Barisan Nasional?
Aparupa Bhattacherjee · 26 Mar, 2013 · #3857 · Commentary
The thirteenth national elections in Malaysia are due to take place in June 2013. Speculation surrounds the event as the stakes are extremely high for the ruling party Barisan Nasional, after their disastrous performance in 2008. In the history ...
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Sri Lanka and the UNHRC Resolution: A Paper Tiger?
J Jeganaathan · 26 Mar, 2013 · #3856 · Commentary
The 22nd regular session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) has successfully adopted a US-sponsored Resolution on “Promoting Reconciliation and Accountability in Sri Lanka” by a vote of 25 in favour, 13 against and 8 ...
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Kashmir: Protests and the Return of the Fidayeen
Zainab Akhter · 25 Mar, 2013 · #3855 · Commentary
Security was beefed up and put on high alert after the 13 March 2013 Fidayeen attack. Disguised as cricket-playing youth, with lethal weapons hidden in their sports kits, at least two Fidayeen unleashed a brazen attack at a CRPF camp in Srinagar...
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Review: India, Pakistan - Propelling Indus Water ‘Terrorism’ (IWT)
Roomana Hukil · 25 Mar, 2013 · #3854 · Commentary
Connecting the Drops: An Indus Basin Roadmap for Cross-Border Water Research, Data Sharing, Policy Coordination
Indus Basin Working Group
Stimson Center, SDPI, ORF
26 February 2013
The 67-page report is a well-documented analysis of the em...
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Book Review: Assessing Asian Military Strategies
Rishika Chauhan · 25 Mar, 2013 · #3853 · Commentary
Clashing Titans: Military Strategy and Insecurity Among Asian Great Powers
Rajeswari Pillai Rajagopalan
Knowledge World Publishers, New Delhi, 2012
With the emergence of Asia as the referent point of varied strategies and policies the world...
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Book Review: Contextualising the Arab Spring Within the Legacy of Resistance
Anwar Alam · 25 Mar, 2013 · #3852 · Commentary
Martyred but Not Tamed: The Politics of Resistance in the Middle East
Kumar, Ram Narayan
New Delhi: Sage Publications, 2012
At a time when all eyes are cautiously watching the rapidly changing socio-political paradigm in the Middle East, th...
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Pakistan Elections 2013: Caretaker Prime Minister & the Election Scenario
Rana Banerji · 25 Mar, 2013 · #3851 · Commentary
The elected government in Pakistan has successfully completed its tenure: a first in the political history of the country. Now that a caretaker Prime Minister has also been appointed, what is the domestic situation in terms of elections and poli...
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China: Reformed Labour Camps?
Namrata Hasija · 24 Mar, 2013 · #3850 · Commentary
On 17 March, 2013, in his first press release after being appointed as the new Chinese Premier, Li Keqiang said that a plan will be released later this year for introducing reforms in the controversial gulags (labour camps) in China. This articl...
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China: How bad does the Japan-US alliance look?
Rana Divyank Chaudhary · 20 Mar, 2013 · #3849 · Commentary
The situation in the Asia-Pacific is precarious. Japan and China are neither willing to back down from a peaking military build-up nor a worsening diplomatic standoff. Though going to war might seem unlikely, China is apprehensive about a reinfo...
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Myanmar: US, China and An Eastern Great Game?
D Suba Chandran · 20 Mar, 2013 · #3848 · Commentary
It appears well established now, that a new Great Game is slowly evolving in Myanmar. Perhaps an Eastern Great Game, if one has to take the construct from the original Great Game between British India and Russia in the western parts of the India...
