COMMENTARIES
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The Strategist
The Chanciness of Squirming Back from the Brink of Nuclear War
Vice Admiral Vijay Shankar · 31 Jan, 2020 · #5647 · Commentary · Column
Stanislav
Yefgrafovich Petrov, Colonel Second Rank of the Soviet Strategic Air Defence
Forces, stood as watch-in-charge at the Oko nuclear early warning surveillance
system at the top secret Serpukhov-15 complex in a South Moscow suburb. His
d...
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East Asia Compass
A New Phase in US-North Korean Denuclearisation Talks?
Dr Sandip Kumar Mishra · 27 Jan, 2020 · #5646 · Commentary · Column
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, by recently replacing his foreign and defence ministers, has indicated his
intent to take a tough stand on the issue of denuclearisation. On 18 and 22
January 2020, Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho was replaced by Ri ...
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Kashmiri Pandits and J&K Reorganisation
Shivangi Seth · 22 Jan, 2020 · #5645 · Commentary
In
early 2019, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi remarked about the injustice of
the 1990 Kashmiri Pandit (KP) exodus and reiterated his commitment towards
facilitating their dignified return to Kashmir. After Article 370 was abrogated in ...
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Strategic Space
Nuclear Energy: Is it In or Out?
Manpreet Sethi · 20 Jan, 2020 · #5644 · Commentary · Column
Two contrasting news on
nuclear energy from two different parts of the world greeted the dawn of the new
year. Germany announced the decommissioning of another of its nuclear power
plants in keeping with its plan to phase out nuclear energy by ...
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The Killing of Gen Soleimani and the Islamic Republic’s Options
Majid Izadpanahi · 15 Jan, 2020 · #5643 · Commentary
After a rocket attack on a US
military base which led to the killing of an American contractor, the US blamed
the Kata'ib Hezbollah (an Iran-backed proxy militia) and later plotted the bombing
of a base belongs to that militia. Few days later, ...
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The Assassination of Iran’s Soleimani: Victory for Trump, Failure for the US?
Pieter-jan Dockx · 06 Jan, 2020 · #5642 · Commentary
On 3 January, a
US drone strike near Baghdad airport killed Major General Qasem Soleimani of
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as well as his main Iraqi ally,
militia leader Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis. The assassinations are the late...
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CAA and Citizenship Determination: An ‘Assamese’ Exception
Niharika Das · 27 Dec, 2019 · #5641 · Commentary
The
Citizenship
Amendment Act, 2019 (CAA), which came into force on 12 December 2019, amends
the Citizenship Act, 1955, to state that “any person belonging to Hindu, Sikh,
Buddhist, Jain, Parsi or Christian community from Afghanistan, Bangla...
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IPCS Discussion
Decolonisation and its Discontents: Naga Claims-Making and Indian State-Making
Discussion Report · 24 Dec, 2019 · #5640 · Commentary
On 19 November, as
part of its Alumni Lecture Series, IPCS hosted Dr Lydia Walker, Fellow at the
Institute of Historical Research, of the University of London's School of
Advanced Studies, for a talk on Decolonisation and its Discontents: Naga ...
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Women’s Rights and the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019
Akanksha Khullar · 24 Dec, 2019 · #5639 · Commentary
Since August 2019, several explanations have been provided to justify
the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019. Among these is a claim that this
decision facilitates equal rights for women domiciled in the now erstwhile
state of Jammu and...
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East Asia Compass
Making Sense of China's Diplomatic Fig Leaf to South Korea
Dr Sandip Kumar Mishra · 23 Dec, 2019 · #5638 · Commentary · Column
China, after a period of bad blood with South
Korea, appears to be offering a fig leaf to its neighbour. What is the
background to this latest development, and what is in it for the China, as well
as South Korea and the US, who are all stakehol...
