COMMENTARIES
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Strategic Space
Living Dangerously: A New Nuclear Arms Race
Manpreet Sethi · 14 Jul, 2022 · #5823 · Commentary · Column
A re-run of the nuclear arms race is staring
us in the face. And, it is taking place in new circumstances. Today’s nuclear reality
is starkly different from what the well-known nuclear strategist Thomas
Schelling had described in 2009. He wro...
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The Strategist
Russia in the Black Sea: What Happened to the Moskva?
Vice Admiral Vijay Shankar · 04 Jul, 2022 · #5822 · Commentary · Column
The flagship of the Russian Black
Sea fleet, the ‘Slava’
class missile cruiser, Moskva,
sank at on 14 April 2022 in position
45°10′43.39″N 30°55′30.54″E, after being "damaged." That is as
far as one can establish fro...
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Climate Resilience and the Quad
Akash Ramnath · 30 Jun, 2022 · #5821 · Commentary
Members of the Quad met in Tokyo in May this
year to discuss the most urgent matters impacting Indo-Pacific security, namely
China's regional growth and the continuing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. The
Quad or Quadrilateral Security Dialogue...
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East Asia Compass
South Korea’s Policy towards North Korea: Another ‘Grand Bargain’?
Dr Sandip Kumar Mishra · 29 Jun, 2022 · #5820 · Commentary · Column
After
Yoon Suk-yeol’s election as the new president of South Korea, the country’s
policy towards North Korea was expected to change substantially. Unlike the
Moon Jae-in administration, the new South Korean government will
be strict toward...
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The Strategist
The Challenge of a Multi-Polar Nuclear Age
Vice Admiral Vijay Shankar · 03 Jun, 2022 · #5819 · Commentary · Column
Of Parity,
Assured Destruction, & Mistrust
For the last 77 years, since the US first
detonated nuclear weapons and annihilated the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and
Nagasaki, an eerie ambivalence has prevailed on the subject of nuclear u...
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Red Affairs
The CPI-Maoist and the Inevitability of its Violent End
Bibhu Prasad Routray · 31 May, 2022 · #5818 · Commentary · Column
Since the formation of the Communist Party of
India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) in 2004, the two decade-long war on left-wing
extremism (LWE) by various Indian states has been marked by sporadic calls for
peace talks. The latest was Chief Minister of C...
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East Asia Compass
COVID-19 in North Korea: A State-fuelled Tragedy
Dr Sandip Kumar Mishra · 17 May, 2022 · #5817 · Commentary · Column
On 13 and
14 May 2022, North Korea reported 1,74,400 and 2,60,000 new COVID-19
cases and 21 and 15 deaths, respectively. It is thus hard to believe that the
country was officially free from the pandemic until 11 May the same year. On 12
May, P...
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Will AUKUS Push ASEAN to the Indo-Pacific’s Margins?
Harris Amjad · 08 May, 2022 · #5816 · Commentary
The September 2021 Australia-UK-US (AUKUS) announcement made no mention of
ASEAN. The omission is significant because the three AUKUS member countries are
ASEAN dialogue partners. While the US has reemphasised ASEAN centrality in the
Indo-Pacif...
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Red Affairs
Online Maoist Propaganda: How India Should Respond
Bibhu Prasad Routray · 30 Apr, 2022 · #5815 · Commentary · Column
Extremist organisations have long tended to
use the Internet to emphasise their strengths and gloss over their weaknesses. It
is thus not surprising that there is no fixed pattern to the intensity of
extremist propaganda. This is true both in t...
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East Asia Compass
Testing the Strength of India-Japan Relations
Dr Sandip Kumar Mishra · 26 Apr, 2022 · #5814 · Commentary · Column
Japanese
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida visited India in March this year. In a joint press
conference with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Kishida raised the issue
of Russia’s “aggression”
with Ukraine. The difference between the Japa...
