Geopolitics
Has NFU stumped the BJP manifesto?
By: Lt Gen Vinay Shankar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 May , 2014
It would be reasonably in order to assume that the BJP manifesto was drafted after much deliberation and debate involving all the intellectuals of the party and many outside. It would also be...
India must revamp its policy towards Pakistan
By: Kanwal Sibal | Issue: Courtesy: Mail Today | Date: 22 Apr , 2014
Several aspects of our Pakistan policy need a fresh look by the new government in May, though how much change can be brought about remains an open question as the issues involved and the options...
Revisiting India’s nuclear doctrine
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 Apr , 2014
In its manifesto for 2014 general elections, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has promised to review India’s nuclear doctrine. But does India really have a proper nuclear doctrine in strict...
Beyond the Afghan Polls
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Apr , 2014
With Afghanistan having gone to polls on 5th April, the die is cast. The Taliban having warned the public not to vote indulged in violence as expected. These included suicide bombings on the...
The Fall of Crimea
By: Dr Amarjit Singh | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 06 Apr , 2014
It was the autumn of 1854 in Crimea. British, French, and Ottoman troops were in Crimea to battle Russia. The issue was over the question of who would have control of churches in the Holy Land...
Other countries pay real price for US’ mistakes
By: Vikram Sood | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Apr , 2014
Recently The New York Times announced with breathless urgency that China was ramping up its military spending to $148 billion, up from $139.2 billion last year, adding that China already spent...
Modi’s Foreign Policy
By: Kanwal Sibal | Issue: Courtesy: Economic Times | Date: 02 Apr , 2014
Modi has not yet expressed his thinking on India’s foreign relations. His focus and that of those opposing him or tracking his national rise has been on internal politics and development issues....
The People’s Liberation Army: Post Plenum III
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Vol. 29.1 Jan-Mar 2014 | Date: 01 Mar , 2014
The Third Plenum admitted that the forthcoming reforms would decide the destiny of modern China. The statement concluded with “the need to deepen reforms in order to build a moderately...
Pakistan: Prospects for 2014
By: Maj Gen Dhruv C Katoch | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 12 Feb , 2014
The conflict within Pakistan has multiple dimensions. Three of Pakistan’s four provinces, Baluchistan, Sindh and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa continue to be plagued by violence, and FATA is, for the most...
Secrets of the MaD!
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Feb , 2014
No, this is not about unfortunate people gone bonkers or senile. Nor is this about the mad cow disease or Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (CJD), the human form of mad cow disease amounting to...
Can you Trust the Pakistani Army?
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Feb , 2014
Held after 14 years, the meeting between the Indian Army and Pakistani Army Director Generals of Military Operations at Wagah on 24 December 2013 naturally made media headlines. The discussions...
The right way to look East
By: Kanwal Sibal | Issue: Courtesy: Mail Today | Date: 28 Jan , 2014
Much has been achieved during Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s current visit to India and much has not. In reiterating a clear intention to strengthen bilateral ties, the visit has been a...
It is cherry blossom time in India-Japan relations
By: Kanwal Sibal | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 Jan , 2014
Politically speaking, it is cherry blossom time in India-Japan relations. For the first time in history, the Emperor and Empress of Japan visited India December last. That visit had great...
Nation’s Security Overlooked for Individual Gains!
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Jan , 2014
It is amazing how issues of national security are given the short shrift in India. Whether it is by design or inadvertent can continue to be guessed. That there is political interference is...
Abe’s visit will bolster security ties
By: Kanwal Sibal | Issue: Courtesy: Mail Today | Date: 14 Jan , 2014
Japan’s Prime Minister Abe will be the chief guest at our next Republic Day, a decision that marks India’s reciprocal interest in deepening bilateral political and economic ties. Until now...
Fixing the Fault Lines in 2014
By: Kanwal Sibal | Issue: Courtesy: Mail Today | Date: 30 Dec , 2013
Our major foreign policy challenges are enduring and no dramatic change in our security environment is likely in 2014. Relations with Pakistan could actually worsen. Nawaz Sharif is focusing on...
Games Nations Play: Chinese Assertiveness & America’s Re-balancing
By: Brig Amar Cheema | Issue: Vol. 28.4 Oct-Dec 2013 | Date: 28 Dec , 2013
Realpolitik dictates a policy of ‘congagement’ of China and explains America’s reasons for accommodating the former at the grand table. Thus, while the US-Chinese relationship is expected...
Terror and Violence in China
By: Dr Sudhir Hindwan | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 Dec , 2013
The recent skirmishes between the Chinese security forces and the separatist Uygur Muslims in the Xinjiang province on Tuesday have once again created vulnerable ground for serious ethnic crisis...
Managing the neighbours
By: Kanwal Sibal | Issue: Courtesy: The Telegraph | Date: 23 Dec , 2013
India’s search for a successful neighbourhood policy continues. Sections of our society are anxious about our failure to manage our relations with neighbours properly. We tend to blame...
Chinese Innovations
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Vol. 28.4 Oct-Dec 2013 | Date: 20 Dec , 2013
When Steve Jobs passed away, experts debated as to why China did not produce its own Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, or Mark Zuckerberg? One contributor to Forbes explained that the emergence of such...