Articles in Geopolitics
हमारा नहीं पाकिस्तान का हित...
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Courtesy: www.jagran.com | Date: 02 Jun , 2014
प्रधानमंत्री नरेंद्र मोदी ने दक्षेस सदस्य देशों को अपने शपथ ग्रहण समारोह...
J&K: Theatre of the Next War
By: Maj Gen GD Bakshi, (Retd) | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 30 May , 2014
Significance of the Gilgit–Gwadar Corridor The ominously rising strategic salience of the Gilgit–Baltistan region was made sharply apparent by Selig Harrison’s startling disclosure in 2010...
Diplomatic engagement in a post nuclear use environment
By: Ali Ahmed | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 May , 2014
Strike corps exercises are usually well covered by the media. Inevitably mentioned in write ups from reporters over the past decade since Exercise Poorna Vijay has been the nuclear backdrop. The...
Will the wind blow from the East?
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 May , 2014
The tides are changing. As Narendra Modi takes oath as the new Prime Minister of India, Asia is fast becoming the center of the world. Agence France-Presse reported that China and Russia signed...
The Insoluble Equation: Indo-Pak Relations
By: Anand K Verma | Issue: Book Excerpt: Reassessing Pakistan | Date: 25 May , 2014
The two-nation theory has mired Indo-Pak relationship into an intractable problem in Kashmir. More than a half-century has gone by after independence and four wars fought during this period but...
Foreign Policy and Power Projection under Modi
By: Col R Hariharan | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 May , 2014
Narendra Modi, the BJP’s prime ministerial candidate, has been given massive mandate by the people in the just concluded general elections to the parliament. The BJP is poised to get a...
Foreign ties will blossom under the new Modi government
By: Kanwal Sibal | Issue: Courtesy: Mail Today | Date: 20 May , 2014
The BJP’s massive electoral victory brings us foreign policy gains. The prospect of a strong and stable government in India makes our external image more positive. Modi’s personality gives us...
Rebalancing the Strategic Affairs Post 16 May 2014
By: Danvir Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 May , 2014
Narendra Modi has won a landslide victory in the general elections of 2014. The political pundits call it a titanic shift in Indian politics. The verdict of May 16, 2014 is overwhelmingly in...
Demographic Fault Lines in Assam
By: Ashwani Gupta | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 19 May , 2014
The ethnic killings in the first week of May 2014 once again exposed the demographic fault lines in Assam. 45 persons lost their lives in violence perpetrated by suspected insurgents of National...
Leveraging India-China Strategic Partnership
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 May , 2014
Scientists have predicted that global weather would undergo 80 percent change due to El Nino. The effect is already visible through not only changed patterns of rain, heat and cold but the ice...
Pakistan: The Art of Lying
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 May , 2014
John F Kennedy had said, “No matter how big the lie; repeat it often and the masses will regard it as truth”. However, wisdom speaks that quotes more often are like guidelines that cannot be...
Creation of Bangladesh: Shining Moment or Strategic Blunder
By: Maj Gen Sheru Thapliyal, PhD | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 May , 2014
“DURGA ASTRIDE A TIGER”. This is how Atal Behari Vajpayee described Indira Gandhi immediately after India’s lightening victory in the 1971 war, which resulted in creation of Bangladesh. ...
Taking on the Dragon
By: Maj Gen Sheru Thapliyal, PhD | Issue: Vol. 27.4 Oct-Dec 2012 | Date: 06 May , 2014
A defeat in a future conflict with China will be a disaster for India. Apart from the economic ruin, it will substantially damage India’s standing in the comity of nations and degrade her...