COMMENTARIES
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IPCS Discussion
The Nuclear Future
Report · 26 Aug, 2017 · #5348 · Commentary
Transcript of remarks made at the IPCS discussion, 'The Nuclear Future', on 8 August 2017.
Opening Remarks by the Chair
Ambassador (Retd) Salman Haidar
Patron, IPCS, & former Foreign Secretary of India
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Fifty Years of ASEAN: Between Assertion and Reinvention
Angshuman Choudhury · 26 Aug, 2017 · #5347 · Commentary
The Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) hosted a series of annual multilateral forums between its member states and with other regional partners in Manila, Philippines, from 3-8 August 2017. These included the ASEAN Foreign Ministers...
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Eagle Eye
Testing the Trump-Modi Partnership
Chintamani Mahapatra · 25 Aug, 2017 · #5346 · Commentary · Column
The Doklam standoff between India and China is a serious test case for the maturing India-US strategic partnership, which has endured leadership changes in recent years in New Delhi and Washington.
China has recently emerged as a nuisance f...
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Nepal's Disaster Management Preparedness: Taking Stock
Amb TCA Raghavan · 24 Aug, 2017 · #5345 · Commentary
According to the Nepal Disaster Report 2015 produced by the Government of Nepal, Nepal is among the top 20 on the list of the most multi-hazard-prone countries in the world. Its active tectonic plates, variable climatic conditions, rugged and fr...
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China’s Nuclear Programme: Modernising or Multiplying?
Allyson Rimmer · 22 Aug, 2017 · #5344 · Commentary
China, one of five countries allowed to possess nuclear weapons by the Treaty for the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), has been accused of expanding the number of nuclear warheads at its disposal. It is believed to be the only NPT Nuc...
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Dateline Colombo
Sri Lanka: Leveraging the Politics of Geography
Asanga Abeyagoonasekera · 22 Aug, 2017 · #5343 · Commentary · Column
Rural Hambantota was once best known thanks to featuring in a book by Leonard Woolf in the early 20th century, and now, as a port shaping Sri Lankan politics. Woolf’s Village in the Jungle was the first novel in English literature to be writ...
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Strategic Space
Stabilising Deterrence: Doctrines Score Over Numbers
Manpreet Sethi · 22 Aug, 2017 · #5342 · Commentary · Column
In answer to the criticism from non-nuclear weapon states on lack of movement towards nuclear disarmament by the nuclear weapon states, the latter often highlight the reductions in their stockpiles as one step showcasing their commitment to this...
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Trump's Afghanistan Strategy
Rana Banerji · 22 Aug, 2017 · #5341 · Commentary
After procrastinating for almost five months, US President Donald Trump chose the symbolically significant platform of Fort Myers, Arlington to announce a shift from a “time-based to a conditions-based” strategy to support the Ashraf G...
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Three Years of the Modi Government
India-Afghanistan Relations: Innovating Continuity
Rajeshwari Krishnamurthy · 17 Aug, 2017 · #5340 · Commentary
Bilateral relations between India and Afghanistan have been characterised by ‘friendly engagement’ and underscored by positive public perception in both countries; this has continued after the Narendra Modi-led National Democratic Al...
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Three Years of the Modi Government
The State and the States: The Northeast in the Centre's Vision
Sanjoy Hazarika and Niyati Singh · 17 Aug, 2017 · #5339 · Commentary
A Google search of the keywords "Prime Minister Narendra Modi" and the "Northeast" throw up various headlines that include the following:
"Narendra Modi wants to make Northeast ‘Gateway to Southeast Asia’&...
