Articles in Geopolitics
Afghanistan: All is not yet lost
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 Mar , 2012
All is not yet lost in Afghanistan. The Taliban and its affiliates such as the so-called Haqqani Network are alive and active not only in the interior provinces, but even in Kabul. They still...
Tibetan unrest spreads from Sichuan to Qinghai
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 Mar , 2012
The Tibetan unrest against the repressive policies of the Chinese authorities has spread from the Tibetan areas of Western Sichuan to Qinghai. According to details received late, Qinghai has...
Tibet 2030
By: P K Gautham | Issue: Book Excerpt: Asia 2030 - The Unfolding Future | Date: 13 Mar , 2012
Economic Tibet. China’s aim is to have an economic Tibet. Urbanisation, infrastructure building, extension of rail, roads and airports, converting grasslands to farmland will...
Is Myanmar-China relation entering a tricky phase?
By: Col R Hariharan | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 Mar , 2012
Myanmar’s decision to suspend the construction of the Chinese-aided Irrawaddy Myitsone hydroelectric dam project in Kachin State comes as a pleasant surprise, whatever be the reasons behind the...
Battling the Dragon
By: MP Anil Kumar | Issue: Vol. 27.1 -Mar 2012 | Date: 06 Mar , 2012
“To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.” —Sun Tzu, Art of War The Chinese maintain that the...
China: Better to counter microblogs than to block them
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Feb , 2012
According to Radio Free Asia, funded by the US State Department, Zhu Mingguo,deputy leader of the Guangdong provincial Government in China, which witnessed a people’s revolt in the village of...
The Tibetan Satyagraha
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 Feb , 2012
The recent hard-line statements from the Han rulers of Tibet expressing concern over the situation in Tibet and their determination to crush the so-called splittist movement is a reflection of...
India's Role in Afghanistan - II
By: Bhashyam Kasturi | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 18 Feb , 2012
India’s Role in Afghanistan The U.S.-led invasion after 9/11 marked a turning point in the Indian investment in Afghanistan, and it has been able to steadily re-establish its presence. The...
Iran-Israel spat: National Interest is Supreme
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 Feb , 2012
India appears to be caught in crossfire between Iran and Israel. New Delhi should evaluate the strategic dividends that accrue from Iran and Israel before it responds to the developing...
Countdown to China's first Aircraft Carrier
By: Maj Gen Sheru Thapliyal, PhD | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Feb , 2012
< !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> The issue of the Chinese aircraft carrier, the former Russian Varyag, has re-emerged in the last few days. Both the United States and Japan have asked China to “˜explain its perceived need for...
India-Iran Defence Cooperation
By: Dr Monika Chansoria | Issue: Vol 25.1 Jan-Mar 2010 | Date: 17 Feb , 2012
As Asian Nations work towards integrating familiar areas of mutual interests, defence cooperation by and large, serves as a significant tool that complements diplomatic enterprise. Collaboration...
India's Role in Afghanistann - I
By: Bhashyam Kasturi | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 17 Feb , 2012
Any study that seeks to understand the dynamics of Indias “presence” in Afghanistan with the application of soft power must realise that it is a carefully crafted piece of...
India and its neighbours
By: Kanwal Sibal | Issue: Vol 25.1 Jan-Mar 2010 | Date: 16 Feb , 2012
< !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> It is considered almost axiomatic that management of relations with neighbours should be the first priority of any countrys foreign policy. The stakes are always high as conditions in its...
War and Oil - The Pipeline Politics
By: Rohit Singh | Issue: Vol 24.2 Apr-Jun 2009 | Date: 16 Feb , 2012
One has heard of the great depression that has struck the world on at least two occasions, once in the early 20th century, and the other one we are going through, currently. While the current...
Pakistan 2030: Possible Scenarios and Options
By: Col Harinder Singh | Issue: Book Excerpt: Asia 2030 - The Unfolding Future | Date: 15 Feb , 2012
George Friedman once said that the first line of defence against Islamic radicals would be the Muslim states themselves. It could be believed that Pakistan quite accurately represents this fault...
The Pakistani Conundrum
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 Feb , 2012
After having fairly successfully defied the Army over the so-called Memogate affair, the elected Pakistani Executive headed by President Asif Ali Zardari has now chosen to defy the judiciary on...
Facts about Chinese presence in POK
By: Bhashyam Kasturi | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 Feb , 2012
At the end of last year, statements were made by the Indian Army Chief, General V.K. Singh about the presence of Chinese Peoples Liberation Army [PLA] troops in the Northern Areas of Pakistan....
UN Peacekeeping: Thinking 'out of the box'
By: Ali Ahmed | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 Feb , 2012
The story of India’s peacekeeping engagement is too well known to recount. However, less known is the fact that India numbers among the five top UN troop contributing countries. In effect,...
Fears of Pakistanisation of Maldives
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 Feb , 2012
There has been disquiet among the large number of supporters of former Maldivian President Mohammed Nasheed over indications that appeared on February 11, 2012, that India, the US and the...
The Challenge of China
By: Lt Gen Vinay Shankar | Issue: Book Excerpt: Threat from China | Date: 11 Feb , 2012
The recent denial of a visa by China to one of our senior most serving army officers has taken the Indian Security and Diplomatic establishment by considerable surprise, more so when the visa was...