Strategic Issues
The deeper politics of deep sea ports
The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is a development strategy of the Chinese government aimed at enhancing regional connectivity and cooperation among the Eurasian countries—primarily the People’s Republic of China and the countries that spread along the historically famous land-based Silk Road Economic Belt (SREB) and the Maritime Silk Road (MSR).
Pakistan decides
A tsunami, but what sort?
The circus of democracy
The darker side
Redefining 'global commons'
US must adopt Law of the Sea
Since the Obama administration's announced pivot to Asia, challenges have piled up in the region. With the exception of North Korea's nuclear brinkmanship, most of the challenges involve growing tension in the South China Sea and East China Sea. The US must devise a policy on these maritime disputes that preserves freedom of navigation and commerce, ensures regional stability, and upholds treaty commitments while avoiding military entanglements. A holistic strategy is required that calibrates the first term's diplomatic and military efforts while heeding the legal dimensions of these disputes, including the key role of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, or UNCLOS.
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India's Northeast: The threat of Islamist militancy
The demonstration by Muslim advocacy groups, which resulted in violent clashes in Mumbai's Azad Maidan on 11 August 2012, leaving 2 dead and over 65 injured, was held to protest against the killings of Muslims in Kokrajhar (the inter-community clashes between Muslims and the Bodo community) and in the Arakan state of Myanmar (the inter-community clashes between the Rohingya Muslims and the Rakhine community). The linkage of these two separate inter-community clashes to a single protest march in Mumbai may be symbolic, but the threat of the rise of Islamist militancy in parts of Northeast India, and the larger international neighbourhood encompassing Myanmar and Bangladesh, has to be seen in context.
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When security measures work
A security officer runs after an explosion at the entrance of the US embassy in Ankara.Photo: AFP
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