Articles in Courtesy: IPCS
North Korea: Time to Focus on Minimisation, Not Denuclearisation
By: Rahul Raj | Issue: Courtesy: IPCS | Date: 31 Aug , 2017
The North Korean nuclear programme has been the focus of international attention over the last two decades because Pyongyang’s development of nuclear weapons and intercontinental ballistic...
China’s Nuclear Programme: Modernising or Multiplying?
By: Allyson Rimmer | Issue: Courtesy: IPCS | Date: 24 Aug , 2017
China, one of five countries allowed to possess nuclear weapons by the Treaty for the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), has been accused of expanding the number of nuclear warheads at...
Maritime Issues: Proactive Initiatives
By: Dr Vijay Sakhuja | Issue: Courtesy: IPCS | Date: 02 Jul , 2017
During the last three years since the incumbent government led by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi came to power, ‘matters maritime’ have gained ascendency, clearly suggesting that...
The Value of a Declared No First Use Nuclear Policy
By: Vice Admiral Vijay Shankar | Issue: Courtesy: IPCS | Date: 01 May , 2017
“Can it be a nation’s case to destroy the very purpose that polity sets out to attain; or as Milton put it “Our Cure, To Be No More; Sad Cure!” The sensibility of negotiated agreements to...
The CPEC: Corridor to Chinese Coffers
By: Vice Admiral Vijay Shankar | Issue: Courtesy: IPCS | Date: 01 Apr , 2017
Misshapen Marshall Analogy Deceptive arguments are current that the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) finds historic equivalence in the ‘Marshall Plan’. The Plan was an American...
CPEC: 'Third Party' Dilemma and Cracks in the Corridor
By: Amit Kumar | Issue: Courtesy: IPCS | Date: 03 Feb , 2017
Public opinion in China rarely witnesses apprehensions regarding key projects launched by the central leadership. However, over the past few months, Chinese experts – including academics and...
In Context: Pakistan's New Army Chief Gen Bajwa
By: Rana Banerji | Issue: Courtesy: IPCS | Date: 29 Nov , 2016
Speculation over the appointment of Pakistan’s 16th Army Chief ended on 26 November 2016 when a comparative `dark horse’, Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa, was declared, with much media fanfare, as the...
After the Collapsed US-Russia Agreement, Advantage Assad
By: Derek Verbakel | Issue: Courtesy: IPCS | Date: 31 Oct , 2016
On 19 September, the Russia-backed regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad declared dead the flawed-but-hyped peace deal enacted a week earlier by the US and Russia. The agreement aimed to...
India’s ‘Surgical Strike’ Across the LoC: A Preliminary Assessment
By: Angshuman Choudhury | Issue: Courtesy: IPCS | Date: 01 Oct , 2016
On 29 September 2016, the Indian Army’s Director General of Military Operations (DGMO) announced that India had conducted overnight pre-emptive ‘surgical strikes’ against terrorist targets along...
Russia-Japan: Onset of a Thaw?
By: Monish Gulati | Issue: Courtesy: IPCS | Date: 21 May , 2016
On 6 May 2016, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Sochi. During the meeting, Abe presented an eight-point plan on bilateral economic cooperation with...
Monumental Challenges for Taiwan’s New President
By: You-te Howard Liao | Issue: Courtesy: IPCS | Date: 10 Feb , 2016
Dr Tsai Ing-wen won Taiwan’s presidential election on 16 January 2016 – her pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) defeated the ruling Nationalist Party/Kuomintang (KMT) and...
Pakistan: Status of Civilian Control after Musharraf
By: Mirjan Schulz | Issue: Courtesy: IPCS | Date: 02 Feb , 2016
In 2008, the then President of Pakistan, Gen Pervez Musharraf, allowed relatively free general elections in the country. Islamabad’s first peaceful transfer of power from one civilian government...
2016: Security Situation in Northeast India
By: Wasbir Hussain | Issue: Courtesy: IPCS | Date: 31 Jan , 2016
2016 brings both hope as well as challenges for the government in dealing with insurgency in Northeast India. The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government in New Delhi is continuing with the...
A 'New Era' of Democracy in Taiwan: Implications for Regional Security & Economy
By: Teshu Singh | Issue: Courtesy: IPCS | Date: 24 Jan , 2016
Elections are the bedrock of democracy. Taiwan is a multi-party democracy and the only ethnic Chinese society that can boast of being a Democracy. On 16 January 2016, 23 million citizens of the...
Forecast 2016: Another Year at the Crossroads for Pakistan
By: Sushant Sareen | Issue: Courtesy: IPCS | Date: 22 Jan , 2016
Much like in all the previous 67 years of its existence, Pakistan finds itself on the crossroads even in the 68th year. The good things that happened in 2015 on the economic, security, diplomatic...
Japan in Northeast India: A Potential Boost for New Delhi’s ‘Act East...
By: Ateetmani Brar | Issue: Courtesy: IPCS | Date: 19 Jan , 2016
India’s northeastern states are strategically important and are endowed with reserves of a variety of natural resources such as uranium, coal, hydrocarbons, forests, oil, and gas. However,...
Has the Rise and Growth of the Islamic State Benefitted Iran?
By: Kimberley Anne Nazareth | Issue: Courtesy: IPCS | Date: 01 Jan , 2016
The recent attacks in Paris, triggered by the ever growing Islamic State (IS) has caused a great deal of concern not only among the Western nations but in the Persian Gulf as well. The event has...
China Prepares for a Modern War
By: Asanga Abeyagoonasekera | Issue: Courtesy: IPCS | Date: 19 Dec , 2015
“Under the leadership of the Communist Party, our military has gone from small to big, from weak to strong, from victory to victory. On this road, reform and innovation steps have never stopped.”...
Can Suu Kyi Usher in True Democracy in Myanmar?
By: Wasbir Hussain | Issue: Courtesy: IPCS | Date: 15 Dec , 2015
Very rightly, key world leaders, including Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, have not forgotten to congratulate President Thein Sein, the head of Myanmar’s quasi-military regime, for...
Jihadi Aggression and Nuclear Deterrence
By: Vice Admiral Vijay Shankar | Issue: Courtesy: IPCS | Date: 11 Dec , 2015
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...