Articles in Geopolitics

India’s Af-Pak policy: Risks and Opportunities

India’s Af-Pak policy: Risks and Opportunities

By: Divya Kumar Soti | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Monitor | Date: 17 Dec , 2015

The Ufa Joint Statement issued by the prime ministers of India and Pakistan had envisaged a preliminary framework to address the issues of terrorism, ceasefire violations and to find out “ways...

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India-Pakistan Relations in the Current Environment: The Way Ahead

India-Pakistan Relations in the Current Environment: The Way Ahead

By: Jai Kumar Verma | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 15 Dec , 2015

The world is concerned as relations between two nuclear powers, i.e., India and Pakistan, are deteriorating. Pakistan, which has launched a low-intensity war against India, constantly infiltrates...

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Can Suu Kyi Usher in True Democracy in Myanmar?

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...

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China Threat Theory — An Appraisal

China Threat Theory — An Appraisal

By: Lt Gen (Dr) JS Bajwa | Issue: Book Excerpt: Modernization of Chinese PLA | Date: 13 Dec , 2015

People are spreading the China Threat Theory and trying to split China, which not only hurts China, but also is not in the interest of world peace, stability and development. Those people who...

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The Dragon’s Adventures in the Indian Ocean

The Dragon’s Adventures in the Indian Ocean

By: Vice Admiral Anup Singh | Issue: Vol. 30.3 Jul-Sep 2015 | Date: 12 Dec , 2015

Starting with the early part of the last decade, the Chinese had been carving out a plan that analysts in many parts of the world had assessed as a move to “contain” India. In India, the...

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Jihadi Aggression and Nuclear Deterrence

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...

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Lone Wolf Jehad a Dangerous Phenomena Propagated by ISIS

Lone Wolf Jehad a Dangerous Phenomena Propagated by ISIS

By: Brig Arun Bajpai | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Dec , 2015

Let there be no doubt that 28 years old Sayyed Irfan Farooq and his 27 year old wife Tashfin Mallick, former being the first generation Pakistani origin citizen of America and his wife a...

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Propping up Proxies: India’s Inimical Neighbourhood

Propping up Proxies: India’s Inimical Neighbourhood

By: Lt Gen (Dr) JS Bajwa | Issue: Vol. 30.4 Oct-Dec 2015 | Date: 09 Dec , 2015

“The enemy of my enemy is my friend” seems to be the quintessential truth with regard to India’s neighbourhood, despite the well-meaning olive branch extended under the initiative of...

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“Suspicion and Separatists”: Third World and the Separatist States

“Suspicion and Separatists”: Third World and the Separatist States

By: Anant Mishra | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 Dec , 2015

Introduction Today Separatist state movements (SSMs) poses one of the greater threats to the democratic governments in the world. Separatism is a process where a group of one nation try to...

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By: admin | Date: 08 Dec , 2015

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