Articles By Dr Subhash Kapila
Wuhan and Sochi Informal Summits: An Analysis
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Date: 28 May , 2018
Evidence of PM Modi’s Successful Foreign Policy Geopolitical imperatives centering on India’s increasing significance in 2018 arising from Indian PM Narendra Modi’s assertive foreign...
Middle East 2018 Witnesses Russia outmaneuvering US
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 22 May , 2018
The Middle East historically has been geopolitically turbulent but the United States stayed predominant. In 2018, Middle East sands have shifted wherein perceptionaly Russia seems to have...
Indian Foreign Policy 2018 Reclaiming the Neighbourhood
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Date: 14 May , 2018
Indian PM Narendra Modi in 2018 has wisely switched once again the focus of Indian foreign policy on reclaiming India’s neighbourhood which stood lost and was inherited in mid-2014 as a legacy...
China-India Wuhan Summit April 2018: Competing Geopolitical Perspectives
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Date: 30 Apr , 2018
The China-India Informal Summit between Indian PM Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping at Wuhan, China on April 27-28 201 8 was high on hopes and media hype. Competing geopolitical ambitions,...
India’s China Policy Reset 2018 Strategically Inadvisable without India...
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Date: 23 Apr , 2018
India once again stands plagued reminiscent of 2004-05 with China throwing “thaws” and seconded by Indian China-Apologists and some in the policy establishment arguing for a reset of India’s...
Pakistan’s Western Frontiers Restive: The Pakhtun Awakening
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Date: 21 Apr , 2018
Pakistan’s Western Frontiers comprising Balochistan, Khyber Pakhtunwa Province and Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), have been restive for decades but recent Pakhtuns widespread...
United States-Russia Military Confrontation 2018 & its Implications for...
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Date: 17 Apr , 2018
United States and Russia are in a state of edgy military confrontation which has all the potential of a flare-up and military showdown. Inherent in this are serious implications for India and its...
Afghanistan’s Comparative Perceptions of Pakistan and India
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Date: 09 Apr , 2018
Afghanistan was posed with mighty challenges on the Partition of the Indian Subcontinent in 1947 wherein Pakistan despite its Islamic commonality with Afghanistan became interposed as a “Hostile...
United States & West Confrontation with Russia: Geopolitical Consequences
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 05 Apr , 2018
Grave geopolitical consequences are likely to flow for global security and stability by the ongoing confrontation between United States and the West with Russia. Highlighted in my past SAAG Papers...
China’s Strategic Vulnerabilities make it Assailable
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Date: 20 Mar , 2018
China in the 21st Century may have a mighty military machine and a threatening missiles arsenal capable of hitting Continental United States but the Great Wall of China on land and the Great Sea...
Indian Foreign Policy Establishment’s China Policy Conundrum
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Date: 15 Mar , 2018
India and its foreign policy establishment’s most confusing conundrum once again is to clearly define whether in the larger and long-range perspective China is India’s ‘Friend or Foe’?...
Pakistan's Political Dynamics in Run-up to General Elections- May 2018
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 04 Mar , 2018
Pakistan’s politically churning dynamics in the run-up to its General Elections mid-2018 throws no surprises in the continuance of Pakistan Army’s obsessive fixation to prevent the return of...
China is the single most impediment to Korean Reunification
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 20 Feb , 2018
Korean Reunification like the Germany Reunification can be brought about only when the citizens of North Korea in a massive upsurge like the East Germans tore down the Berlin Wall. Even if the...
Japan’s Naval Outreach to France and Britain
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Date: 09 Feb , 2018
Japan’s increasing strategic profile in 2018 now transcends the rapid buildup of its military muscle to forging strategic relationships especially in the maritime domain with France and Britain...
South East Asia: United States & India Convergent Strategic Interests 2018
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 02 Feb , 2018
United States recent primacy to Indo Pacific security in its National Security Strategy 2018 and India’s primacy to its Act East Policy are implicitly focused on checkmating belatedly, China’s...
Israel-India Strategic Partnership 2017 “Seizing the Future” Strongly...
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Date: 24 Jan , 2018
The January 2018 visit of Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has strongly reaffirmed the Israel-India Strategic Partnership signed in mid-2017 and which the Israeli Prime Minister had then very aptly...
Japan’s Geopolitical Assertiveness is an Asian Security Imperative in 2018
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Date: 16 Jan , 2018
Asian security environment plagued with volatility spawned by China’s hegemonistic impulses visible in 2018 places a special call on Japan’s geopolitical assertiveness. Japan is well...
Middle East Strategic Churning’s implications for South Asia
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Date: 13 Jan , 2018
The ongoing strategic churning in Middle East portends an unpredictable course for regional power tussles which are not only spawning volatility amongst the United States and Russia but also...
Pakistan Warned by United States that it can no Longer Bear Weight of...
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 10 Jan , 2018
For far too long the United States has borne the strategic weight of Pakistan’s strategic contradictions of pretensions to be a staunch US ally and simultaneously resorting to destabilisation US...
Pakistan Loses Utility in United States Strategic Calculus 2018
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Date: 05 Jan , 2018
Strategic utility of a smaller nation to that of a major power lies in its credibility, usefulness and loyal effectiveness to serve the national security interests of its strategic patron and that...