COMMENTARIES
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East Asia Compass
India-Japan-US Trilateral: India’s Policy for the Indo-Pacific
Dr Sandip Kumar Mishra · 05 Oct, 2015 · #4917 · Commentary · Column
In an interesting first, the foreign ministers of India, Japan and the US had a trilateral dialogue on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly on 29 September 2015. The foreign ministers underlined the strategic convergence of their interests i...
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India-Nepal
Nepal: The New Constitution and the Trust Deficit with India
Siddharth Singh · 05 Oct, 2015 · #4916 · Commentary
After nearly eight years of work, Nepal finally promulgated its new constitution in mid-September 2015. In June 2015, Nepal’s four major political parties reached a 16 point political accord on the progress of the constitution-making proce...
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Iran Nuclear Deal: What is in Store for the US and Iran?
Abhimanyu Singh · 29 Sep, 2015 · #4915 · Commentary
Today, there is little doubt in the international fraternity that the foreign policy of the US in West Asia since 9/11 has caused only turmoil in the region. The nuclear deal sealed between the P5+1 global powers and Iran is a defining moment to r...
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Himalayan Frontier
Nepal’s New Constitution: Instrument towards Peace or Catalyst to Conflict?
Pramod Jaiswal · 19 Sep, 2015 · #4914 · Commentary · Column
On 17 September 2015, amidst the curfew and violence that erupted in southern Nepal due to protests organised by the Tharu and Madhesi ethnic communities against Nepal’s constitution, the members of the country’s Constituent Assembly...
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US, China and Iran: A Balancing Act
Kimberley Anne Nazareth · 17 Sep, 2015 · #4913 · Commentary
What impact will the nuclear agreement signed between Iran and P5+1 countries have on US-China and Iran-China relations? The implications for future relations between the US and Iran as well as US and West Asia are complex. To add to this, what ...
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The Strategist
Jihadi Aggression and Nuclear Deterrence
Vijay Shankar · 15 Sep, 2015 · #4912 · Commentary · Column
Pakistan’s use of terror organisations as a tool of State policy to wage unconventional war against India (Christine Fair, Fighting to the End) has perverse consequences that link sub-conventional warfare with nuclear escalation. This biza...
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IPCS Discussion
China's Continental Strategy Over the Next Twenty Years
Report · 09 Sep, 2015 · #4911 · Commentary
• Speaker: Eric B Brown, Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute, Washington, DC
• Chair: Maj Gen (Retd) Dipankar Banerjee, Mentor, IPCS
The US’ foreign policy dilemmas have much in common with India’s concerns regard...
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Dateline Colombo
Sri Lanka: Moving Towards a Higher Collective Outcome
Asanga Abeyagoonasekera · 08 Sep, 2015 · #4910 · Commentary · Column
"Don’t think the enemies are weak as there are pro-Eelam forces on one hand while forces belonging to the last regime are also waiting to sabotage the destiny of the national government,” Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisen...
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East Asia Compass
China-South Korea Ties: Implications for the US Pivot to Asia
Dr Sandip Kumar Mishra · 08 Sep, 2015 · #4909 · Commentary · Column
A Victory Day Parade in Beijing was organised on 3 September 2015 to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II, in which one of the most important spectacles was the top leaders of China, Russia and South Korea waving together ...
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Looking East
China: ‘Peaceful’ Display of Military Might
Wasbir Hussain · 07 Sep, 2015 · #4908 · Commentary · Column
On 3 September 2015, China displayed its massive military might in a parade unseen in recent years. It is for the first time since 1949 that so many senior military officers of the rank of generals had actually taken part in such a parade. Weari...
