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  • Special Commentary
    Afghanistan: Prospects of a Political Settlement with the Taliban
    Dr Omar Sadr    ·   15 Mar, 2019    ·    #5567    ·    Commentary    
    Around mid-March, the fifth round of negotiations between the US and the Taliban—the longest in the ongoing series—concluded in Doha, Qatar. In the US’ view, a negotiation that could be considered successful would be one which results in ...
  • What Drives the EU Towards India?
    Pieter-jan Dockx & Manuel Herrera    ·   14 Mar, 2019    ·    #5566    ·    Commentary    
    On 20 November 2018, the EU published ‘Elements for an EU strategy on India,’ which set out Brussels’ future approach towards New Delhi. This policy paper was the bloc’s most recent publication on EU-India relations, 14 years after its p...
  • India-Pakistan
    Has the Pulwama Crisis Altered Strategic Dimensions?
    Dr Shalini Chawla    ·   08 Mar, 2019    ·    #5565    ·    Commentary    
    On 26 February, the Indian Air Force (IAF) targeted a Jaish-e-Muhammed (JeM) camp in Balakot in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province, after over 40 Central Reserve Police Force jawans were killed in Pulwama, Jammu & Kashmir (J&...
  • Experiential Learning and India After Pulwama
    Shubhra Chaturvedi    ·   04 Mar, 2019    ·    #5564    ·    Commentary    
    The 2016 Uri attack was followed by heated debates on government-military coordination in India, the possibility of integrated responses, better public diplomacy, and improved operational preparedness during crises. Contextualising these discu...
  • Liberal International Order and its Discontents
    Lydia Walker    ·   26 Feb, 2019    ·    #5563    ·    Commentary    
    In the past two years, in response to the activities and rhetoric of the current US presidential administration, a slew of prominent voices in the study of international relations have bemoaned the demise of an international order, of US power...
  • Trump-Kim Summit in Hanoi: Optimism Despite Impediments
    Dr Sandip Kumar Mishra    ·   26 Feb, 2019    ·    #5562    ·    Commentary    
    The second US-North Korea summit meet, eight months after the Singapore Summit, is scheduled to take place in Hanoi on 27-28 February 2019. There is skepticism regarding the potential outcomes of this meeting, based on three important factors. ...
  • Decoding the Arakan Army: Emergence and Political Framing (Part-1)
    Angshuman Choudhury    ·   25 Feb, 2019    ·    #5561    ·    Commentary    
    On 4 January 2019, as Myanmar celebrated its 71st Independence Day, hundreds of Arakan Army (AA) insurgents launched coordinated attacks on four border police outposts in Northern Rakhine’s Buthidaung Township, killing 13 policemen and injuri...
  • A Post-INF Nuclear World
    Summaiya Khan    ·   25 Feb, 2019    ·    #5560    ·    Commentary    
    President Donald Trump's withdrawal of the US from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty raising complex security concerns with ramifications that could upset an already fractious global nuclear weapons environment. Background ...
  • Strategic Space
    In the Wake of the Pulwama Massacre: What India Should Not Do
    Manpreet Sethi    ·   22 Feb, 2019    ·    #5559    ·    Commentary    ·   Column
    For India, 14 February, a day that should have ended with rosy pictures of a romantic sunset ended with bloody images of death and gore. Even before New Delhi could point a finger towards Pakistan, a neighbour that has long sustained a policy ...
  • East Asia Compass
    Is Japan Getting Isolated?
    Dr Sandip Kumar Mishra    ·   21 Feb, 2019    ·    #5558    ·    Commentary    ·   Column
    It has been reported that Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Aso wanted to meet US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo at the Munich Security Conference (15-17 February 2019), apparently to give him suggestions for the upcoming second US-North Korea sum...
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