Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Mon, 02/19/2018 - 06:58
Paper No. 6349 Dated 19-Feb-2018
By Dr Subhash Kapila
Korean Reunification like the Germany Reunification can be brought about only when the citizens of North Korea in a massive upsurge like the East Germans tore down the Berlin Wall. Even if the above is attempted by the North Korean masses, China would not permit the end-aim to be achieved.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Thu, 02/08/2018 - 07:35
Paper No. 6347 Dated 08-Feb-2018
By Dr Subhash Kapila
Japan’s increasing strategic profile in 2018 now transcends the rapid buildup of its military muscle to forging strategic relationships especially in the maritime domain with France and Britain to offset China’s worrisome military adventurism in the South China Sea and East China Sea which in both cases endangers Japanese security.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Wed, 01/31/2018 - 05:37
Paper No. 6344 Dated 31-Jan-2018
By Dr Subhash Kapila
United States recent primacy to Indo Pacific security in its National Security Strategy 2018 and India’s primacy to its Act East Policy are implicitly focused on checkmating belatedly, China’s hegemonistic control over South East Asia, and this leads to increasing strategic convergences between the US and India
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Mon, 01/22/2018 - 06:33
Paper No. 6341 Dated 22-Jan-2018
By Dr Subhash Kapila
The January 2018 visit of Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has strongly reaffirmed the Israel-India Strategic Partnership signed in mid-2017 and which the Israeli Prime Minister had then very aptly described it as “Seizing the Future” and which was analysed in detail in my SAAG Paper No.6277 dated 10 July 2017 and so titled.www.southasiaanalysis.org
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Tue, 01/16/2018 - 07:02
Paper No. 6340 Dated 16-Jan-2018
By Dr Subhash Kapila
Asian security environment plagued with volatility spawned by China’s hegemonistic impulses visible in 2018 places a special call on Japan’s geopolitical assertiveness. Japan is well positioned to do so with its established and credible strategic footings as compared to India which is still positioning itself in the global strategic calculus.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Fri, 01/12/2018 - 06:14
Paper No. 6339 Dated 12-Jan-2018
By Dr Subhash Kapila
The ongoing strategic churning in Middle East portends an unpredictable course for regional power tussles which are not only spawning volatility amongst the United States and Russia but also generates geopolitical challenges for India and Pakistan, based on South Asian and Middle East regional contiguity.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Tue, 01/09/2018 - 10:19
Paper No. 6338 Dated 09-Jan-2018
By Dr Subhash Kapila
For far too long the United States has borne the strategic weight of Pakistan’s strategic contradictions of pretensions to be a staunch US ally and simultaneously resorting to destabilisation US interests in Afghanistan by terrorism and suicide bombings sponsored by Pakistan Army though its Islamic Jihadi affiliates.
