Articles in Geopolitics
Washington's Views of Sino-Pakistan Relations - II
By: Ramtanu Maitra | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 11 Feb , 2012
Chinese Arming of Pakistan The first area of concern is Beijing’s help in arming Pakistan. According “China-Pakistan Relations,” a July 2010 article by Jamal Afridi and Jayshree Bajoria in...
Tibet: The International Betrayal
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Book Excerpt: Tibet - The Lost Frontier | Date: 11 Feb , 2012
“In former times Tibetans were a war-like nation whose influence spread far and wide. With the advent of Budhisim our military prowess declined…” Dalai Lama 23 October 1950: A Telegram from...
Washington's Views of Sino-Pakistan Relations - I
By: Ramtanu Maitra | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 10 Feb , 2012
In the recent period, relations between Washington and Islamabad have developed into a full-blown crisis. According to some analysts, the trust gap between these erstwhile allies has put a damper...
Mutiny in Maldives Leads to Replacement of President Nasheed by his...
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 Feb , 2012
The Maldives saw dramatic developments on February 7,2012, when President Mohammed Nasheed was forced to step down from office following a mutiny by about 100 officers of the Police and the...
Opening-Up of Myanmar
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Feb , 2012
The three-day (Nov.30—Dec 2, 2011) visit of Hillary Clinton, US Secretary of State, to Myanmar— the first by a US Secretary of State since the visit of Johan Foster Dulles in 1955—...
It is time to wake up to Chinese incursions
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Book Excerpt: Tibet - The Lost Frontier | Date: 07 Feb , 2012
Kiren Rijiju, the 36-year-old firebrand Member of Parliament representing Arunachal Pradesh (West), does not share the government’s and Indian Army’s perceptions about Chinese incursions in...
Russian-Chinese nervousness influences their vote on Syria
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Feb , 2012
The veto by Russia and China on February 4,2012, of a resolution in the UN Security Council that called upon Syrian President Bashar Assad to step down in the face of the persisting movement...
Pakistan at War with Itself
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Vol. 27.1 -Mar 2012 | Date: 02 Feb , 2012
In the coming years, Islamabad will remain pre-occupied with internal strife without respite due to multiple contradictions arising out of the use of terrorism primarily against New Delhi as a...
Curfew in Western Sichuan
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Jan , 2012
11 Tibetans Die in Police Firing A curfew has been imposed and a shoot-at-sight order has been given to the police following two days of violent protests by Tibetans in certain parts of Western...
Can Pakistan's Army be Restrained?
By: Bhaskar Roy | Issue: Courtesy: Uday India | Date: 18 Jan , 2012
In an interview with the BBC last December, Pakistan’s Foreign Minister, Ms Hina Rabbani Khar admitted that the Pakistan army’s overwhelming power and influence over the civilian government...
Time for Solidarity with Balochs
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 Jan , 2012
The Killing Fields of Balochistan have started shocking the conscience of the international community. Not only non-governmental human rights organisations, but even Governmental spokesmen of...
Assertive Dragon
By: Dr Pushpa Adhikari | Issue: Book Excerpt: China Threat in South Asia | Date: 16 Jan , 2012
Ahead of offering an Indian perspective on rising China, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh (in Washington) said lately, “there is but a certain amount of assertiveness on the Chinese part”...
Is Memogate Scandal planted by ISI?
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 Jan , 2012
Pakistan is known NATO ally of United States. The Ambassador of Pakistan therefore is a very important player in Washington. He has full access to the top people both in the State Department and...
The India factor in Afghanistan
By: VK Shashikumar | Issue: Vol 23.3 Jul-Sep 2008 | Date: 14 Jan , 2012
In 2001 US and its allies launch the war against terrorism after the world is stunned by the horrific terror on the WTC twin towers in New York. Seven years later Osama bin Laden and Mullah Omar...
Game Plan for Return of Musharraf
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 Jan , 2012
< !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> There is a clear link between Musharraf’s announcements to fight elections in 2012 and lead his party, propping up of Imran Khan, and Pakistan Army and the ISI. In a pre-planned move Musharraf...
Unfolding US foreign policy attempts to contain China
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 Jan , 2012
As President Obama nears the end of his first term and gets ready to seek a second term, he has sought to give a new focus to the US foreign policy towards Asia. This new focus is marked by two...
China bolsters Pak Army's image
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Jan , 2012
As the Pakistan Army confronts the US on the one hand and the civilian leadership headed by President Asif Ali Zardari on the other in a triangular re-assertion of its primacy in strategic...
The War of Nerves in Pakistan: Q & A
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 Jan , 2012
Q: What is the likelihood of Gen.Ashfaq Pervez Kayani, Pakistan’s Chief of the Army Staff (COAS), staging a coup, seizing political power and imposing the rule of the Army till fresh elections...
Kim Jong-Un: Little Known Ruler of an Unpredictable State
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Dec , 2011
One need not be surprised by the regional and global nervousness over the death of Kim Jong-Il, the ruler of North Korea, following a heart attack reportedly suffered by him on board a train on...
Asian Security Environment: India's options
By: Anand K Verma | Issue: Vol 25.1 Jan-Mar 2010 | Date: 16 Dec , 2011
Asian security environment is in a state of deep turmoil. The single event which has occasioned it, is the giant rise of China during the past couple of decades, reaching higher and higher levels...