COMMENTARIES
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The Strategist
What is Strategic Stability?
Vijay Shankar · 12 Oct, 2015 · #4921 · Commentary · Column
The Cold War Paradigm
There is no consensus on the definition of strategic stability nor is there common understanding of what it comprises; it is also reasonable to assume that there probably never will be. Yet, the awkward irony is that n...
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Looking East
Myanmar in New Delhi's Naga Riddle
Wasbir Hussain · 06 Oct, 2015 · #4920 · Commentary · Column
By abrogating a 14-year-long ceasefire and turning its guns once again on the Indian security forces, the Khaplang faction of the National Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN-K) has robbed New Delhi of its happiness over the signing of an otherw...
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Spotlight West Asia
Prime Minister Modi Finally Begins His Interaction with West Asia*
Ranjit Gupta · 06 Oct, 2015 · #4919 · Commentary · Column
Over the past four decades, the GCC countries have become India’s preeminent oil suppliers, and leading trade partners, with 8 million Indians living and working there who send annual remittances worth $40 billion back home. Indians have b...
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Afghanistan: Takeaways from the Kunduz Offensive
Rajeshwari Krishnamurthy · 05 Oct, 2015 · #4918 · Commentary
On 28 September 2015 the Taliban launched an elaborate offensive on Kunduz city, capital of the Kunduz Province. By 29 September 2015 - the Afghan National Unity Government’s (NUG) first anniversary - Kunduz city was overrun by the Tal...
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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...
