Articles in Geopolitics
America Comes Full Circle in Afghanistan
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 Jul , 2021
Speaking to reporters at White House on July 8, US President Joe Biden announced rapid withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan would conclude by August 31. He said, the US had achieved what it...
Eastern Turkistan: Struggle for a nation-state
By: KN Pandita | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 Jul , 2021
The Arab and Persian historians of medieval times have written very little about the Uyghurs of Eastern Turkistan, their history, culture and life. They generally included them in the broader...
With Eye on Afghan Taliban, India Must Strengthen Its Security Shield in...
By: admin | Date: 11 Jul , 2021
The “Right Freedom of Speech” is not good for US Democracy
By: Slavisha Batko Milacic | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Jul , 2021
Free speech has long been a cornerstone of American society. The US Constitution guaranteesthat no one shall be prosecuted for expressing his or her opinion. However, within the past few years the...
Ominous Signals for Kashmir
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Courtesy: Uday India | Date: 09 Jul , 2021
What is Delhi cooking for Jammu and Kashmir? This question is being raised at many a place these days, following the all-party meeting that Prime Minister Narendra Modi hosted recently. This...
Pakistan: Where the Military Lectures Legislators on Political Correctness
By: Nilesh Kunwar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 Jul , 2021
“The perception that the ISI [Inter Services Intelligence of Pakistan army] may be involved in or interferes with matters with which an intelligence agency should not be concerned with,...
Drone Jihad
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 Jul , 2021
The drone attack on the Jammu Air Force Base by Pakistan coincides with the Indian Government’s political initiatives with regard to J&K. Certainly, the Pakistani establishment had pinned great...
Can Washington’s ‘Build Back Better’ plan compete with China’s Belt...
By: admin | Date: 08 Jul , 2021
Iran elects a New President: Implications
By: Col RN Ghosh Dastidar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Jul , 2021
On 18 June 2021, Iran went to polls. Ebrahim Raisi, a hardliner who headed Iran’s Judiciary and is acknowledged to succeed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as the Supreme Leader,was elected the new...
India must shed its Good Boy Image
By: Dr Rajasimman Sundaram | Issue: Vol. 36.2, Apr-Jun 2021 | Date: 05 Jul , 2021
In this game of power, a nation that is able to quickly arrest the spread of virus within its own territory as well as research, develop and manufacture the vaccines, wins. For this to happen, a...
Recruiting Tibetans in the Liberation Army: not an easy task
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Courtesy: http://claudearpi.blogspot.in/ | Date: 04 Jul , 2021
The issue of recruiting Tibetans in the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has recently come up in the Indian media. It is presently not easy to find out what is true and what is exaggerated, but I...
Change of Leaderships in US, Iran and Israel: A Political Synthesis
By: Lt Gen Rameshwar Yadav | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Jul , 2021
The West Asian region has been perpetually in turmoil due to Israel-Iran standoff and sectarian divide with primacy of religious narratives alongside complicity of external forces. Israeli...
Challenges for Naya Jammu & Kashmir: Summer of 2021
By: Brig Anil Gupta | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 Jul , 2021
Prime Minister Narendra Modi set the roadmap for Naya Jammu & Kashmir with successful completion of the All–Party Meet convened by him at 7 Lok Kalyan Marg on 24 June. The meeting which has many...
Wrong Pentagon Policy
By: Slavisha Batko Milacic | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 Jul , 2021
Modern warfare is waged with high-tech weapons. Each battle fought eats up loads of ammunition and modern weapons systems need spare parts and fuel. All this meaning that no military action is...
Afghan Vacuum and the Neighbouring Aspirants
By: KN Pandita | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 Jun , 2021
The implosion of the then Soviet Union in 1991 had created a vacuum in its Muslim dominated Central Asian Republics. Three neighbouring Islamic countries, Pakistan, Iran and Saudi Arabia jumped...
Has China Pressed the United States against the Wall?
By: Ivaylo Valchev | Issue: Vol. 36.2, Apr-Jun 2021 | Date: 30 Jun , 2021
Post elections, the United States (US) seems to have lost illusions about its biggest trading partner and the new administration has adopted the hardline policy of the Trump administration. The...
Jammu and Kashmir: On Course for the Political Process
By: Col Jaibans Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 Jun , 2021
The Government of India invited political leaders of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) for a meeting in Delhi chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The centre gave no agenda for the meeting and placed no...
Shah Mehmood Qureshi: Maverick or Islamabad’s ‘Sounding Board’?
By: Nilesh Kunwar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 Jun , 2021
On June 24, The Express Tribune reported that “Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said on Wednesday [June 23] India was making attempts to misuse the forum of the Financial Action Task Force...