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  • Sri Lanka: 25 Years After the IPKF
    N Manoharan    ·   31 Jul, 2012    ·    #3687    ·    Commentary    
    29 July 2012 marked 25 years of the signature of the Indo-Sri Lankan Accord and the subsequent induction of the Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF) in Sri Lanka. Much has happened in the past two-and-a-half decades, and one is tempted to make a re...
  • Polarised ASEAN: Highlighting the Factions
    Panchali Saikia    ·   31 Jul, 2012    ·    #3686    ·    Commentary    
    Ahead of achieving the 2015 ASEAN community vision, the regional grouping has been confronted by escalating differences between its members. It is for the first time in the 45 years of its successful existence that ASEAN has failed to conclude i...
  • Polarised ASEAN: ‘Reverse Enmeshment’
    Vibhanshu Shekhar    ·   31 Jul, 2012    ·    #3685    ·    Commentary    
    The recently concluded ASEAN Ministerial Meeting at Phnom Penh, Cambodia (10-12 July 2012) has brought this regional grouping into the dock over three critical issues of (a) unity within ASEAN, (b) ASEAN’s leadership role in steering the A...
  • Hong Kong and China: Clashing Visions of the Future
    Narayani Basu    ·   27 Jul, 2012    ·    #3684    ·    Commentary    
    On 1 July 2012 and the fifteenth anniversary of the British handover, tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets of Hong Kong to protest the swearing in of Leung Chun-yin: a man widely seen to be allied with Beijing.  Are the pro-d...
  • Iran: Understanding the Policy towards Afghan Refugees
    Aryaman Bhatnagar    ·   25 Jul, 2012    ·    #3683    ·    Commentary    
    Iran hosts close to 2.5 million Afghan refugees – both registered and unregistered. Iran recently announced its willingness to sign an agreement with Afghanistan and Pakistan which would put an end to the forceful deportation of Afghan ref...
  • India’s LTTE Ban Renewal: Politics of Security
    J Jeganaathan    ·   24 Jul, 2012    ·    #3682    ·    Commentary    
    The Government of India (GoI) has extended the ban on the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) for two more years. LTTE was first banned in 1991 in the aftermath of the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi. According to the Home Ministry of India, &...
  • Pakistan’s Babur and Ra’ad Cruise Missiles: Strategic Implications for India
    Shane A. Mason    ·   18 Jul, 2012    ·    #3681    ·    Commentary    
    If recent missile tests are any indication, cruise missiles, rather than ballistic missiles, appear to be taking an increasingly more prominent role in Pakistan’s strategic force posture. The Babur (Hatf-7) land-attack cruise missile was i...
  • India-Pakistan: Moving Beyond CBMs
    Ali Ahmed    ·   17 Jul, 2012    ·    #3680    ·    Commentary    
    In wake of the Abu Jindal revelations, not much could be expected from the Joint Statement at the end of the recently held meeting between the foreign secretaries of India and Pakistan. For that reason perhaps the ‘one small step’ th...
  • Indonesia: Will the Jakarta-Papua Dialogue be Fruitful?
    Navrekha Sharma    ·   17 Jul, 2012    ·    #3679    ·    Commentary    
    International pressure is growing on Indonesian Government over its human rights record in Papua. A remote island one-fifth  Indonesia’s size,  Papua is unbelievably rich in natural resources  but  its one million  ...
  • IPCS Debate: Targeted Killings as a Counter-Naxal Strategy
    D Suba Chandran    ·   17 Jul, 2012    ·    #3678    ·    Commentary    
    Are targeted killings of top militant leaders as a part of counter-Naxal strategy essentially flawed and undemocratic? Every state has a right to pursue what it considers as an appropriate counter-insurgency strategy, keeping in mind larger ...
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