Articles By Prateek Kapil
The Process of CPEC – Confidence, Corruption, Elections, China
By: Prateek Kapil | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 04 Aug , 2017
PM Nawaz Sharif was forced to resign one year before his stipulated five- year term in light of the Supreme Court verdict indicting him for disproportionate foreign assets revealed as part of the...
The Case of the PoK- CPEC: What is ‘a Meaningful Dialogue’?
By: Prateek Kapil | Date: 24 May , 2017
China launched President Xi Xinping’s flagship project – One Belt One Road this week with an attendance from heads of state and representatives from 65 countries[1]. One belt one road is the...
Russia-US Move into Cold Peace- Implications for India in South Asia
By: Prateek Kapil | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 24 Apr , 2017
This article argues that contrary to popular opinion, the US military strike on the Syrian Airfield does not indicate a deterioration of US-Russia relations. The Syria strike was limited to...
Terrorism and Radicalization - Different Twins
By: Prateek Kapil | Date: 16 Mar , 2017
The essence of terrorism is to create terror through violence. It is aimed at employing violence in an unconstitutional manner without the checks and balances of a social contract. It is to...
Pakistan and the Nature of Sunni-Shia Relations for India
By: Prateek Kapil | Date: 04 Feb , 2017
Sunni-Shia relations are as old as the history of Islam but they are very peculiar in nature. The sectarian relations often thrive in the presence of external enemies, undergo violent interaction...
Barbarism is Not a Tactical or Strategic Escalation Ladder
By: Prateek Kapil | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 30 Nov , 2016
“To know only one thing well is to have a barbaric mind: civilization implies the graceful relation of all varieties of experience to a central human system of thought.” ― Robert Graves It...
India's North West: A Picture Starting to Emerge
By: Prateek Kapil | Date: 01 Jun , 2016
Afghan Taliban’s intransigence on the peace process coupled with its attack on civilians in Kabul has forced the four powers initially driving the peace process to increase the pressure on the...
Micro-Aggression Theory, Victimhood Culture and Article 370 as a Counter...
By: Prateek Kapil | Date: 17 May , 2016
For argument’s sake if we keep the violent insurgency problem in Kashmir aside for the reading time of this article, Kashmiri politics is primarily characterized by politics of identity and...