COMMENTARIES
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The Strategist
The Value of a Declared No First Use Nuclear Policy
Vijay Shankar · 01 May, 2017 · #5278 · Commentary · Column
"Can it be a nation’s case to destroy the very purpose that polity sets out to attain; or as Milton put it “Our Cure, To Be No More; Sad Cure!”
The sensibility of negotiated agreements to assuage friction between nat...
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China-Philippines Ties: Lessons for India and Japan
Tapan Bharadwaj · 27 Apr, 2017 · #5277 · Commentary
China and Philippines are in discussion to establish a bilateral consultation mechanism on South China Sea (SCS). This could re-establish direct talks between both countries after a long pause of six years. This upswing in bilateral ties however...
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IPCS Discussion
Lok Sabha By-polls: Reading Jammu and Kashmir
Report · 27 Apr, 2017 · #5276 · Commentary
On 18 April 2017, Dr Ashok Bhan, Distinguished Fellow, IPCS; former Director General of Police, J&K; former Member, National Security Advisory Board (NSAB), delivered his remarks on the Lok Sabha By-Polls in Jammu and Kashmir, in the IPCS Co...
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Pakistan and the Panama Papers Verdict
Rana Banerji · 21 Apr, 2017 · #5275 · Commentary
The long awaited Panama Papers verdict on 20 April, 2017, by the five-judge bench of Pakistan's Supreme Court has stopped short of disqualifying Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and given him a temporary reprieve by ordering investigation by a Jo...
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Dateline Colombo
Sri Lanka: National Interests in a Globalised World
Asanga Abeyagoonasekera · 20 Apr, 2017 · #5274 · Commentary · Column
The first 100 days of the US President Donald Trump's administration revealed the complexity of a head of state’s task. One of his predecessors, former US President John F Kennedy during his first 100 days had learned a costly lesson w...
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Strategic Space
US-North Korea Military Swashbuckling and China's Role
Manpreet Sethi · 19 Apr, 2017 · #5273 · Commentary · Column
Temperatures are high all across India, but this is a normal seasonal phenomenon. Far more worrisome is the soaring of temperatures between the US, North Korea and China. The military swashbuckling currently under way between the US and North Ko...
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Special Commentary
Jammu and Kashmir: A Saga of Neglect
Arun Chaudhary · 19 Apr, 2017 · #5272 · Commentary
The institutions that are supposed to establish calm in the Kashmir valley seem to be opposed or at least indifferent to this idea. The captains of these institutions have, since the 1990s, reviewed their strategies and made amends whenever viol...
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West Asia
Obama, Trump, and Abiding Authoritarianism in Egypt
Derek Verbakel · 19 Apr, 2017 · #5271 · Commentary
On 3 April, US President Donald Trump hosted the first ever visit of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi to the White House. Many observers have characterised Trump’s praise of el-Sisi's authoritarian governance as engendering a si...
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Evolving External Influence in Jammu and Kashmir (Part II)
Lt Gen (Retd) Syed Ata Hasnain · 14 Apr, 2017 · #5270 · Commentary
Pakistan’s propensity to calibrate its role in J&K is usually contingent upon its strategic confidence at a given time and the situation present in the state. It appears in the midst of a new found confidence quite evident from social ...
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Asia-Pacific: Is Middle Power Multilateralism Possible?
Chandrali Sarkar · 13 Apr, 2017 · #5269 · Commentary
In light of President Trump’s abandonment of the original ‘Pivot to Asia’ policy, a recent article in The Indian Express, titled ‘Delhi, Tokyo Canberra’, by C Raja Mohan and Rory Medcalf, has explored possible appro...
