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Moving towards a stronger India-Japan partnership
K.V. Kesavan
17 June 2013 |
| The India-Japan partnership has matured into an important component of the new security and economic architecture of the Indo-Pacific region. For a long time, the partnership was centered on economic matters. But it has diversified to cover a wide spectrum of interests including security, counter terrorism, sea-lanes, UN reforms, energy security and climate change. |
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Japanese assistance drives Indian growth
Rohit Sinha and Geethanjali Nataraj
07 June 2013 |
| Japanese ODA has eased the burden of borrowing in the Indian market. Moreover, with the Japanese economy still struggling to induce growth, investments in India offer an avenue to earn interest income. Increased Japanese FDI is also likely to give a huge boost to the Indian economy. |
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Obama-Xi talks: Trouble for BASIC?
Uma Purushothaman
13 June 2013 |
| At the Obama- Xi talks, there has been some movement forward on the so-far intractable issue of Hydroflurocarbon (HFCs) emissions. Washington and Beijing have agreed to work together to eliminate the use of HFCs and persuade countries like India to join this effort. This could mean trouble for the tenuous alliance of BASIC. |
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TTP Dy Commander's killing and US strategy
Wilson John
30 May 2013 |
| Few conclusions can be drawn from the recent killing of TTP deputy commander. That the US will continue to pursue its Drone campaign against those who pose threats to US interests in Afghanistan, even if such action undermines the Pakistan establishment. |
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| Maldives |
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Maldives: Islam, nationalism and 'Islamic nationalism'
N Sathiya Moorthy
11 June 2013 |
| In Maldives, if the mainline polity has failed in fighting a process now being projected as contributing to religious extremism, militancy or terrorism, the global community too has failed to distinguish between a return of Islamic traditions and the advent of Islamic extremism, and act accordingly.
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Maldives: Judiciary in 'crisis' or 'transition'?
N Sathiya Moorthy
06 June 2013 |
| In Maldives, legal and judicial process may be in for another season of controversies, ahead of the presidential polls in September. It is also in transition, from a not-so-democratic past to a democratised future. It is too early to say which way it would go. |
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| Pakistan |
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Will Islamabad behave differently under Nawaz Sharif?
T V Rajeswar
10 June 2013 |
| If Nawaz Sharif really believes that Islamic insurgency has no role to play in Indo-Pakistan relations henceforth, he should enforce immediate control and effectively neutralise LeT and its parallel organisation, the Jamat-ud-Dawa. |
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What the PM must get right with Nawaz Sharif and Sheikh Hasina
C. Raja Mohan
03 June 2013 |
| While Dr. Manmohan Singh must necessarily wait for Nawaz Sharif to determine the pace at which he might be comfortable moving forward with India, in the case of Bangladesh, the burden is entirely on Delhi to implement the historic agreements it had negotiated with Dhaka. |
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| China |
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Facing China threat, Vietnam seeks American balance
C. Raja Mohan
05 June 2013 |
| Vietnam's self-assured pursuit of a complex balance of power strategy could be a model for other medium powers in Asia who are deeply concerned about the rise of China, want Washington to balance Beijing, but are reluctant to become formal military allies of the United States. |
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No closure to India-China border flare- up
Manoj Joshi
24 May 2013 |
| Just because China now seems to be in a hurry to move on the border issue should not be cause for New Delhi to reciprocate. We need to weigh the issues carefully and see what serves our interest the best. Anyway, we are not likely to see a final resolution of the border issue in a hurry |
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| Iran |
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India-Iran energy diplomacy: Facts & tacts of balancing act
Monish Tourangbam and Manish Vaid
31 May 2013 |
| India's ties with Iran have clearly been strained by the latter's tumultuous relationship with the United States, with the Iran factor equally imposing constraints on India-US relations. India has had to walk a diplomatic tightrope in balancing its relationships with these countries. |
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Could Iran be Obama's legacy?
Vikram Sood
12 March 2013 |
| If Richard Nixon sought a breakthrough in China after failure in Vietnam, George Bush had a breakthrough with India after failure in Iraq, Barack Obama could work on a legacy that is a breakthrough with Iran after failure in Afghanistan. |
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| Sri Lanka |
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Ethnic issue, Kachchateevu need to be delinked from TN fishers' woes
N Sathiya Moorthy
29 May 2013 |
There is an urgent need for Tamil Nadu and its polity to look futuristically at the problems faced by their fishers in the Palk Bay, and delink one from the others, if any practical solution has to be found.
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Sri Lanka: Did the Indian vote help - and how?
N Sathiya Moorthy
30 March 2013 |
| 'Competitive politics' in Tamil Nadu was only one element in India's vote for the US Resolution. But there has been a general sense of dissatisfaction across the State with the Sri Lankan Government's perceived unwillingness to stand by its war-time promises. |
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| Nepal |
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Three to tango
C. Raja Mohan
07 May 2013 |
| Nepal Maoist leader Prachanda's proposal for trilateral cooperation between Nepal, India and China is his big idea. But his geopolitical epiphany could soon be a forgotten footnote if India and China can?t find ways to ensure peace and tranquility on their long and contested boundary. |
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CJ becomes now Govt Head in Nepal: But will he be able to hold polls in June?
Akanshya Shah
14 March 2013 |
Nepal's Chief Justice Khil Raj Regmi has been appointed the Head of the interim government. His main mandate is to hold elections for the CA. But 22 opposition political parties have begun their protest programmes against the new government, raising doubts whether polls can be held in June this year.
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| Bangladesh |
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A peep into Sheikh Mujib's assassination
TV Rajeswar
01 April 2013 |
| While there was no question of any rapprochement between Bangladesh and Pakistan, there are Muslim diehard elements in Bangladesh who draw their inspiration from Pakistan. These elements aim to strike at the very basic concept of Bangladesh. |
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Shahbagh protests: Will Bangladesh set an example for the region?
Joyeeta Bhattacharjee
04 March 2013 |
The Shahbagh protests could become a defining moment in Bangladesh's history, bringing back secularism in to the midst of political debate in the country.
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| Russia |
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China makes a pivot towards Russia
Manoj Joshi
01 April 2013 |
| Given the past Sino-Russian relations the longevity of their entente is moot. Clearly, India is not entirely without options in this geopolitical competition, the only problem is to get New Delhi to play the game. |
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Foreign policy and BRICS: A look at Russia
Nithya Kochuparampil
01 February 2013 |
| Russia saw BRICS as an anti-Western grouping and it can be said that this Russian BRICS-view still persists. The main problem with this position is that BRICS was not crafted to be a foreign policy vehicle. |
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| Africa |
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BRICS in Africa: A development dream?
Kartikeya Khanna
26 March 2013 |
| The BRICS-Africa partnership provides the potential for positive cooperation between developing nations in the future. It is this potential that delegates from Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa will be trying to cultivate and deepen over the next couple of days in Durban. |
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Crisis in Mali: The larger implications
H.H.S Viswanathan and Kartikeya Khanna
24 January 2013 |
| The Mali crisis has attained added significance in view of the fact that many other African countries like Nigeria and Somalia are also facing the problem of terrorism. The weakness of the armed forces in most African nations encourages such rebel forces. This re-emphasises the urgent need for an efficient African Rapid Deployment Force. |
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| Events |
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| Energy/Coal/Power |
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| $ 150 Oil Comes Back by the Backdoor |
| 11 June 2013 |
| Lydia Powell |
This column has maintained that India's most immediate energy security challenge is its exposure to oil price volatility and not Chinese oil companies buying up hydrocarbon assets around the world. |
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| International |
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Talking Tokyo
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| 27 May 2013 |
| C. Raja Mohan |
"Don't provoke China" has been the mantra behind New Delhi's recent "go slow" strategy with Japan. At the very moment when many Asian countries are frightened by the prospect of China's non-peaceful rise and are looking to Indian leadership in constructing a stable Asian balance of power, Delhi seems trapped in strategic hesitation. |
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| TV media as the new mom and dad |
| 14 May 2013 |
| Maansi Parpiani |
It was not a big surprise that the Bill that came into force as the 'The Criminal Law (Amendment) Act 2013' on April 3 retained the age of consent at 18, taking away from the teenagers the right to make their sexual choices; |
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| Security |
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| North Korean imbroglio: Who can do what? |
16 April 2013
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| Dr. Rajeswari Pillai Rajagopalan |
While on the surface, both the US (and South Korea and Japan) and China appear to have the goal of seeing a stable Korean Peninsula, there appear to be serious differences about what regional stability means. |
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| ATT implementation remains questionable |
06 April 2013
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| Rahul Prakash |
The ATT has finally been adopted. But it remains to be seen if the treaty could really be implemented as major players like China, India, Russia have not favoured it. |
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| China |
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| No closure to India-China border flare- up |
24 May 2013
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| Manoj Joshi |
Just because China now seems to be in a hurry to move on the border issue should not be cause for New Delhi to reciprocate. We need to weigh the issues carefully and see what serves our interest the best. |
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| Time for hard questions on Sino-Indian relationship's future |
| 21 May 2013 |
| Samir Saran and Abhijit Iyer-Mitra |
India and China must bilaterally develop a substantial conversation on the cutting edge of global governance issues, including issues of the global commons like climate change, water, health and medicine, and Asian security architecture, as well as issues of space and proliferation, of rules and mechanisms of economic governance, and on new arenas of maritime and ocean governance. |
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