Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Wed, 02/08/2017 - 05:50
Paper No. 6220 Dated 08-Feb-2017
Guest Column by Alexander Murray
On 4 February, the UN Security Council (UNSC) agreed to remove Hezb-e-Islami-e-Gulbuddin (HIG) power-broker and former Afghan Prime Minister, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, from its international sanctions list. Having negotiated a truce with HIG and settled on the peaceful terms of Hekmatyar’s reintegration into Afghan civil society, the government of President Ashraf Ghani is sure to welcome the news.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Tue, 01/17/2017 - 07:02
Paper No. 6214 Dated 17-Jan-2017
By Dr Subhash Kapila
Afghanistan seemed to have disappeared from the United States radar in the months to the run-up to US Presidential Elections resulting in a void which the China-Pakistan-Russia Troika has exploited to US disadvantage.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Mon, 01/09/2017 - 05:48
Paper No. 6212 Dated 09-Jan-2017
By Dr Subhash Kapila
Strategic dilemmas face Russia in 2017 in terms of recalibrating its foreign policies with United States and China in response to new US President’s policy shifts recently indicated.
US President-elect Trump has minced no words in enunciating likely hard line policies against China and the United States desire to recast existing American policies for more cooperative relations with Russia.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Mon, 01/02/2017 - 05:35
Paper No. 6210 Dated 02-Jan-2017
By Dr Subhash Kapila
Russia and United States détente’ is a geopolitical imperative in 2017 for global stability and security when placed in context of China’s unbridled provocative military rise.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Thu, 12/29/2016 - 05:48
Paper No. 6208 Dated 29-Dec-2016
by Dr Subhash Kapila
The China-Pakistan-Russia Troika having emerged on the South Asian geopolitical scene now with undisguised contours and political signalling emerges as India’s foremost foreign policy challenge in 2017.
The China-Pakistan Axis has been in existence from 1963 onwards but the addition of Russia to the China-Pakistan Axis leading to its emergence as the China-Pakistan-Russia Troika is a phenomenon of recent vintage.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Wed, 11/23/2016 - 06:03
Paper No. 6199 Dated 23-Nov-2016
By Dr Subhash Kapila
Asian security in 2016 stands dominated by the geopolitical dynamics that are at play in the complex ‘Strategic Quadrilateral’ comprising the United States, China, Japan and India.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Mon, 10/31/2016 - 12:37
Paper No. 6189 Dated 31-Oct-2016
By Dr Subhash Kapila
Russia’s ongoing confrontation with the US-led NATO Alliance on its Western Flank could not have been strategically possible but for an understanding that its Eastern Flank in Asia Pacific would be secured by China as part of the Russia-China nexus.
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