Articles By Dr Subhash Kapila
NATO Alliance Regains Relevance in New Global Geopolitics
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Date: 21 Feb , 2017
Global Geopolitics in 2017 are fast acquiring the contours of the initial years of the cold war when both the former Soviet Union (now Russia) and China were geopolitically aligned to challenge...
Global Balance of Power 2017 weighted heavily against China-Russia Nexus
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Date: 19 Feb , 2017
Global balance of power 2017 is weighted heavily against perceived combined strategic weight of the China-Russia nexus as the history of 20th Century World Wars would indicate that Hitlerian...
South China Sea Conflict Escalation Possibility Analysed
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 10 Feb , 2017
South China Sea conflict escalation in2017 hovers as a distinct possibility with the maximalist positons taken by China and the new US Trump Administration in opposing China’s claims. China’s...
Japan and India in the New Asian Geopolitical Matrix 2017
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Date: 30 Jan , 2017
Asia’s new geopolitical matrix in 2017 will be determined by the challenges that US President throws at China and the likely reset of US polices on Russia and it is in this churning Asian...
Afghanistan cannot be abandoned to China-Pakistan-Russia Troika in 2017
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Date: 20 Jan , 2017
Afghanistan seemed to have disappeared from the United States radar in the months to the run-up to US Presidential Elections resulting in a void which the China-Pakistan-Russia Troika has...
Russia’s Foreign Policy at Strategic Crossroads in 2017
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 10 Jan , 2017
Strategic dilemmas face Russia in 2017 in terms of recalibrating its foreign policies with United States and China in response to new US President’s policy shifts recently indicated. US...
Russia and United States Détente’ in 2017 Prospects Analysed
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Date: 03 Jan , 2017
Russia and United States détente’ is a geopolitical imperative in 2017 for global stability and security when placed in context of China’s unbridled provocative military rise. Russia and the...
India’s Foreign Policy Challenges 2017 Analysed
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 01 Jan , 2017
Fluidity in global geopolitical dynamics on verge of 2017 centring on USA, Russia and China with consequent impact on Indian foreign policy is already evident with the initial posturing of US...
India’s Foremost 2017 Foreign Policy Challenge: China-Pakistan-Russia Troika
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Date: 30 Dec , 2016
The China-Pakistan-Russia Troika having emerged on the South Asian geopolitical scene now with undisguised contours and political signalling emerges as India’s foremost foreign policy challenge...
Chabahar’s Imperatives to Emerge as Flagship of Iran-India Strategic...
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 16 Dec , 2016
Chabahar Port in Eastern Iran and Gwadar in Western Pakistan, both on the North Arabian Sea littoral have emerged as the latest chess-pieces in the maritime Great Power Game unfolding between...
‘Heart of Asia Summit 2016’ Critically Analysed
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 07 Dec , 2016
The ‘Heart of Asia’ which Afghanistan really is, continues to be brutally bled by Pakistan’s bloody terrorism strategies, which five ‘Heart of Asia’ Summits so far have been unable to...
Pakistan’s New Army Chief General Bajwa & India’s Futile Speculation
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Date: 02 Dec , 2016
Pakistan’s announcement of new Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa on November 24 2016 set in motion a torrent of futile Indian media speculation on positive implications for India in terms of...
Asian Security’s Complex Strategic Quadrilateral
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 26 Nov , 2016
Asian security in 2016 stands dominated by the geopolitical dynamics that are at play in the complex ‘Strategic Quadrilateral’ comprising the United States, China, Japan and India. Of the...
Japan-India Special Strategic Partnership and China
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Date: 16 Nov , 2016
Japan –India Special Strategic Partnership which stood further concretised with Indian Prime Minister Modi’s visit to Japan in mid-November 2016 has been a pointed eyesore for China going by...
US-India Strategic Partnership and incoming President Trump
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Date: 13 Nov , 2016
US President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration on January 20 2017 ushers in a new era and a challenging one for the US-India Strategic Partnership and the personal diplomatic qualities of PM...
Japan: Indian Imperatives to Enhance Strategic Bonds to a Higher Plane
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Date: 10 Nov , 2016
Asia’s evolving geopolitics places a high premium on Indian imperatives to enhance strategic bonds to a higher plane during Prime Minister Modi’s visit to Japan on November 11-12, 2016 for...
Pakistan’s Military Containment an Inescapable Indian Imperative
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 09 Nov , 2016
Pakistan’s military containment becomes an inescapable Indian security imperative in 2016. Despite, contemporary geopolitics heavily loaded against Pakistan, surge in Pakistan’s India-centric...
Russia’s confrontation with NATO by Securing Eastern Flank
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Date: 01 Nov , 2016
Russia’s ongoing confrontation with the US-led NATO Alliance on its Western Flank could not have been strategically possible but for an understanding that its Eastern Flank in Asia Pacific would...
South China Sea: Vietnam Perceptibly Betrayed by the Philippines
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 27 Oct , 2016
More than the United States it is Vietnam that stands perceptibly betrayed this week on South China Sea dispute solidarity against China, with new Philippines President Duterte declaring his...
United States Should not be Strategically Diverted from Asia Pacific 2016
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Date: 26 Oct , 2016
The United States stood strategically distracted from Asia Pacific in the last decade resulting in China’s unimpeded militarisation of the South China Sea and the emergence of China as a...