COMMENTARIES
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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...
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Special Commentary
Pakistan: Whither ‘Hybrid’ Governance?
Rana Banerji · 24 Apr, 2022 · #5813 · Commentary
Even
by Pakistan’s unpredictable standards, the tumultuous events of the past few
weeks, beginning with the tabling of a vote of no confidence against a sitting prime
minister on 8 March, bewildered the nation and shocked the sensible section...
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Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine and the Crisis of International Law
Janhavi Pande · 22 Apr, 2022 · #5812 · Commentary
Russia’s invasion
of Ukraine has presented international law with its biggest systemic challenge
to date. The war has been termed a “special military
operation” by President Vladimir Putin. All indications
however point to imperialistic ...
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The Strategist
Power Paradigms and the Vexed Path to Peace in Ukraine
Vice Admiral Vijay Shankar · 31 Mar, 2022 · #5811 · Commentary · Column
The multi-polar distribution of
power that marks contemporary geopolitics has spawned security imbalances on account of economic inequities,
geography, demographics, the military, and the nature of government. It has incited
a jostling f...
