COMMENTARIES
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Part-II
Subtle Shifts in Saudi Foreign Policy: Domestic and International Dimensions
Pieter-jan Dockx · 13 Mar, 2018 · #5448 · Commentary
Part I of this two-part commentary on the shifts in Saudi Arabia...
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East Asia Compass
South Korea's 'Moonshine' and a Trump-Kim Summit
Dr Sandip Kumar Mishra · 12 Mar, 2018 · #5447 · Commentary · Column
In a major of turn of events, US President Donald Trump has announced direct talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. The US and North Korea have been loggerheads for a long time on the issue of North Korea's nuclear and missile programmes. T...
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The Strategist
Quad: The Making of a Robust Entente?
Vice Admiral Vijay Shankar · 12 Mar, 2018 · #5446 · Commentary · Column
The force planner’s primary task is to ensure that the military element of national power alongside economic and political elements supports national strategy. India had in 1950 defined national goals in the Preamble and Directive Principles...
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2018 US Nuclear Posture Review: Intent and Implications
Shivani Singh · 09 Mar, 2018 · #5445 · Commentary
Earlier
this year, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists' Science and Security Board
announced their decision to move the Doomsday Clock closer to midnight. Around
the same time, the US Department of Defense released the 2018 Nuclear Posture
R...
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Can Australian Democracy Dull Chinese Sharp Power?
Rachael Strogoff · 09 Mar, 2018 · #5444 · Commentary
Australian professor Clive Hamilton...
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Regulating India's Cattle Industry: A Socio-Economic Assessment
Ayan Tewari · 08 Mar, 2018 · #5443 · Commentary
On 23 May 2017, a notification issued under the 1960 Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act was passed, placing new regulations on the cattle industry. The livestock sector (consisting of meat, dairy, and eggs) now makes up 28 per cent of the agr...
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Women Cyber Warriors and the Indian Military
Vijay Sakhuja · 08 Mar, 2018 · #5442 · Commentary
The stage is set for the entry of women as ‘cyber warriors’ in the Indian armed forces. The Indian Army chief noted in 2017 that plans were in place to employ women officers "in new cadres such as cyber" since the country ...
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Nuke Street
Winter Olympics in the Nuclear Shadow
Sheel kant Sharma · 05 Mar, 2018 · #5441 · Commentary · Column
Mixed signals have come from the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics but they are once again wrapped in fierce and heightened rhetoric; from Washington, about the dire consequences of North Korean defiance in word and deed, and Pyongyong calling sanctions...
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Musical Chairs in China's Parliament
Srikanth Kondapalli · 28 Feb, 2018 · #5440 · Commentary
On 26 February, the Central Committee of the ruling Communist Party of China (CCP) proposed a series of constitutional amendments including changing the two-term norm for the president and vice-president posts. No specific term period was mentione...
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Part-I
Reorienting Saudi Foreign Policy: From Islam to the Arab Identity
Pieter-jan Dockx · 27 Feb, 2018 · #5439 · Commentary
Since the rise of Saudi Arabia...
