Articles in Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group
Afghanistan Abandonment 2021 by US to Taliban will be Geopolitical Suicide
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 19 Mar , 2021
“Geopolitical Suicide” would be the end-result of United States withdrawal of US Military Forces from Afghanistan by May01 2021, robbing United States of an irreplaceable vital “Strategic...
Pakistan: Still ‘Under Increased Monitoring’ of FATF
By: KM Seethi | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 03 Mar , 2021
There is a great deal of disappointment in Pakistan with the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), a Paris-based global money laundering watchdog, having resolved to put Pakistan again on its...
China’s 2021 Imperatives for Military Climb-down against India in Eastern...
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 26 Feb , 2021
China ‘s military climb-down in February 2021 against India in Eastern Ladakh after eight months of intense military confrontation and violent clashes has not been prompted by some ‘Divine...
Afghanistan 2021 Strategic Paradox for United States President Joe Biden
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 18 Feb , 2021
Afghanistan’s contextual geopolitical and security environment is a paradoxical challenge for new US President Hoe Biden which he inherits as a ‘legacy challenge’ from two decades of...
Myanmar: Army Seizes Power as Expected. What Next?
By: Dr S Chandrasekharan | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 06 Feb , 2021
In the early hours of the morning of 1st February when the newly elected members of the Parliament had assembled in Naypyitaw, the Army moved in by arresting Suu Kyi, th President Dr. U Win Myint,...
Myanmar: Is the Military Planning a Take over?
By: Dr S Chandrasekharan | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 29 Jan , 2021
Myanmar is heading towards a very serious Constitutional Crisis with the Army Chief openly declaring that the 2008 Constitution should be given up if it is “not abided by.” This is perhaps...
US President Biden’s South Asia Foreign Policy Minefield
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 25 Jan , 2021
South Asia in 2021 has emerged as a geopolitical minefield where the strategic landscape has twisted on its head reducing United States to be challenged by China & Pakistan, put together, which...
China’s Six Decades of Unremitting Offensive Military Adventurism Calls...
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 07 Jan , 2021
China defying global geopolitical dynamics heavily weighted against China and in favour of India has been engaged since May 2020 in unprovoked military escalation and armed clashes in Eastern...
Myanmar: How to deal with a Bully like China?
By: Dr S Chandrasekharan | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 03 Jan , 2021
Not so long ago, Irrawady in its editorial of 11th August, expressed its fears about China as follows. It said that at that time, that the Chinese weapons and economic influence are both...
Russia is No Longer a Strategic Asset for India’s Foreign...
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 01 Jan , 2021
Perceptionaly, in 2020, analysing by contemporary trends of Russia positioned in a virtual military alliance with China, it loses its worth to Indian foreign policy as a ‘Strategic Asset’....
India as Natural Ally of the West- Reflected in Indian Foreign Policy...
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 24 Dec , 2020
India stood firmly embedded as ‘Natural Ally of the West” in 2020 as future historians of India’s foreign policy would record in the years to come assessing from the pattern, trend and...
Myanmar: Post Election Developments
By: Dr S Chandrasekharan | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 22 Dec , 2020
In the post election scenario two distinct strands are seen but surprisingly both appear to be mutually exclusive. A third development that is noticed is that the Army’s relationship with the...
Tibet: Time to Review India's Tibet Policy
By: Prof Ramu Manivannan | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 18 Dec , 2020
There are several reasons to believe, as to why Tibet is important for India. The most significant reason is that Tibet is India’s neighbour. The Government of India no longer openly...
ASEAN Geopolitical Centrality in South East Asia 2020 Hinges on Dispensing...
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 13 Nov , 2020
“Perceptions” generated by visible foreign policy attitudinal inclinations count more than “Intentions” in foreign policy dynamics of Nations or Regional Organisations, ASEAN representing...
Pakistan Army in Growing Political Storm: Risks of Umpire Becoming a Player...
By: Mahendra Ved | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 04 Nov , 2020
A from-the-field media report on the Pakistan opposition parties’ first protest rally at Gujranwala states that former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, now in London, wanted the social media...
US-India Strategic Partnership Touches Himalayan Heights in 2020
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 02 Nov , 2020
United States-India Strategic Partnership has touched ‘Himalayan Heights’ , both literally and figuratively in 2020 commencing with its upgradation to a “Comprehensive Global Strategic...
Pakistan’s Political Dynamics 2020 Continue as Fragile and Fragmentary
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 15 Oct , 2020
Pakistan’s internal dynamics when analysed in 2020 as Pakistan edges towards 75 years of its Independence present a dismal and depressing scene where Pakistan’s polity continues as ‘Fragile...
Turkey’s Perceptional Geopolitical Downslide under President Erdogan
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 01 Oct , 2020
Geopolitics focuses on political power and international relations and in the case of Turkey under President Erdogan there is a perceptible geopolitical decline chiefly arising from...
China and India in an Unprecedented ‘State of War’ in September 2020
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 25 Sep , 2020
China and India are in an unprecedented ‘State of War’ in September 2020 going by the military operational situation of massed Chinese Army and Indian Army Divisions confrontation on...
India’s Endeavour at Recalibrating ties with Iran
By: Vandana Mishra | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 21 Sep , 2020
On September 5, 2020 Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh made a visit to Iran to meet his counterpart Brigadier General Amir Hatami. The main objective of the visit was highlighted in...