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  • Eagle Eye
    Forecast 2016: Difficult Days Ahead for Washington
    Chintamani Mahapatra    ·   15 Jan, 2016    ·    #4957    ·    Commentary    ·   Column
    The Obama administration faced many thorny challenges in 2015, and none of those are likely to fade away in 2016. While foreign policy challenges encountered by the US are global, the most critical of those come from a region that is very much p...
  • The Pathankot Terrorist Attack and India’s Afghanistan Policy
    Monish Gulati    ·   13 Jan, 2016    ·    #4956    ·    Commentary    
    The first weekend of the 2016 witnessed two almost simultaneous terrorist strikes on Indian assets. The first was on the Pathankot air base, and the second, on the Indian consulate in Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan. Both attacks were well-planned a...
  • Nepal’s Constitutional Questions and Madhesi Aspirations
    Pramod Jaiswal    ·   07 Jan, 2016    ·    #4955    ·    Commentary    
    For the past four months, the Madhesis, people from the southern plains of Nepal, have been conducting a ‘non-cooperation movement’ against Nepal’s ‘non-inclusive’ newly promulgated constitution. They have blocked t...
  • Special Commentary
    Pathankot Attack: Airfield Ground Defence in Perspective
    PI Muralidharan    ·   06 Jan, 2016    ·    #4954    ·    Commentary    
    The terrorist attack on IAF’s Pathankot airbase makes one recapitulate on the important - but at times ignored - aspects of Passive Air Defence/Ground Defence (PAD/GD) as it used to be called back in the day. The non-flying staff of an air...
  • What are the Prospects for a Pakistan-US Nuclear Deal?
    Urmi Tat    ·   05 Jan, 2016    ·    #4953    ·    Commentary    
    The South Asian region has become the focus of global politics, with the proliferation of unaccountable non-state actors, corruption of civilian institutions and the prevailing atmosphere of mutual suspicion between India and Pakistan. The posse...
  • Japan-South Korea: Resolving the Comfort Women Issue
    Dr Sandip Kumar Mishra    ·   04 Jan, 2016    ·    #4952    ·    Commentary    
    On 28 December 2015, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe extended an apology on the comfort women issue to victims in South Korea via Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida. Japan also promised to officially provide US$ 8.3 million to South Korea to esta...
  • West Asia
    Has the Rise and Growth of the Islamic State Benefitted Iran?
    Kimberley Anne Nazareth    ·   29 Dec, 2015    ·    #4951    ·    Commentary    
    The recent attacks in Paris, triggered by the ever growing Islamic State (IS) has caused a great deal of concern not only among the Western nations but in the Persian Gulf as well. The event has questioned the success of the US-led coalition as ...
  • Madhesi Demands in Nepal: Is there an End in Sight?
    Pramod Jaiswal    ·   22 Dec, 2015    ·    #4950    ·    Commentary    
    The Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Nepal Kamal Thapa has officially informed the Indian Minister of External Affairs that the Nepalese Cabinet has takensome important decisions to address and resolve demands regarding the Constitu...
  • Red Affairs
    Anti-Maoist Operations in Chhattisgarh: Successes and Claims of Successes
    Bibhu Prasad Routray    ·   21 Dec, 2015    ·    #4949    ·    Commentary    ·   Column
    Conforming to the speculations that New Delhi under the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government would adopt a hardline approach against left-wing extremism, a two month-long operation is underway in worst affected Chhattisgarh to dislodge ...
  • Dateline Colombo
    China Prepares for a Modern War
    Asanga Abeyagoonasekera    ·   18 Dec, 2015    ·    #4948    ·    Commentary    ·   Column
    "Under the leadership of the Communist Party, our military has gone from small to big, from weak to strong, from victory to victory. On this road, reform and innovation steps have never stopped." President Xi Jinping In 1919...
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