COMMENTARIES
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Closure of the Manas Airbase
Angira Sen Sarma · 20 Feb, 2009 · #2814 · Commentary
On 3 February, the Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev announced the closure of the US base at Manas, a crucial logistics hub for US-led coalition forces in Afghanistan. Of the developments that have influenced the US eviction from Manas, some anal...
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Deals for Peace
Rabia Akhtar · 18 Feb, 2009 · #2813 · Commentary
In order to understand how the latest Malakand deal has been reached one needs to look back into history. The latest deal with Tehrik Nifaz Shariat-i-Muhammadi (TNSM), to implement Sharia law in Malakand division of the NWFP, is not the first of i...
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Indian Vice President’s Visit to Myanmar: Cementing India-Myanmar Ties
K Yhome · 18 Feb, 2009 · #2812 · Commentary
Geopolitics in the region warrants India’s engagement with Myanmar. New Delhi needs a friendly government in Naypyitaw to keep alive its hope of bringing gas from Myanmar to India, for tackling insurgency and the development of its border re...
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A Plan of Action – Managing Global Insecurity
Sonali Huria · 18 Feb, 2009 · #2811 · Commentary
Chair: Ambassador Lalit Mansingh
Speaker: Ambassador Carlos Pascual, Vice President and Director of Foreign Policy, Brookings Institution, Washington DC
Lalit Mansingh
The purpose of the study undertaken by Brookings was to ...
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Burma and the Limits of International Influence
Yogendra Singh · 18 Feb, 2009 · #2810 · Commentary
Report of the IPCS Seminar held on 5 February 2009
Chair: Maj Gen (Retd.) Dipankar Banerjee
Speaker: Dr Andrew Selth, Research Fellow, Griffith Asia Institute, Griffith University, Australia
Introductory Remarks
Burma has been fa...
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Sino-Indian Anti-Terror Cooperation: Contradictions Aplenty
Jabin T Jacob · 13 Feb, 2009 · #2809 · Commentary
Sino-Indian relations need confidence-building measures but they also need to be carefully thought through before being negotiated. One such measure is the joint anti-terror exercises begun in December 2007 in China’s Yunnan province, and ...
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Role of Private Sector in Preventing Terror Attacks
M Shamsur Rabb Khan · 13 Feb, 2009 · #2808 · Commentary
The looming dangers of terror attacks in India after the Mumbai carnage last November has generated a greater need for involving the private sector in preventing terrorism, since government programs and strategies are unable to prevent and deal ef...
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Post-Mumbai: The Great Game Continues
Vinod Anand · 12 Feb, 2009 · #2807 · Commentary
The “Grand Bargain” propounded by Barnett Rubin and Rashid Ahmed in the in the Foreign Affairs issue of November/December 2008 is meant to resolve the situation in Afghanistan by involving the key South Asian stakeholders to cooperate ...
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Notorious “Golden Triangle”: India’s Golden Opportunity?
Atom Sunil Singh · 11 Feb, 2009 · #2806 · Commentary
The Golden Triangle is an area of around 350,000 sq. kms. that overlaps the mountain regions of Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam and Yunnan Province of China. The Golden Triangle is infamous for being one of the most extensive opium-producing area...
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Bangladesh-India Maritime Boundary
Harun ur Rashid · 11 Feb, 2009 · #2805 · Commentary
The Bangladesh-India maritime boundary has been pending since 1974. Since the waters are not delimited in the Bay of Bengal, Bangladesh cannot explore and exploit certain areas because they are disputed. No foreign company would be willing to expl...
