Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Mon, 10/16/2017 - 06:01
Paper No. 6311 Dated 16-Oct-2017
By Dr Subhash Kapila
The United States has taken sixteen years down the line and numerous speed-breakers in US-Pakistan relations to realise that Pakistan was not only not delivering on US security interests but also undermining them. Sadly, this Paper of mine (Reproduced as Annexure) was coincidently published on the very morning of the Pakistan facilitated, financed and ISI trained Islamic Jihadi assaults in New York.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Mon, 10/09/2017 - 05:57
Paper No. 6310 Dated 07-Oct-2017
By Dr Subhash Kapila
Pakistan in September 2017 perceptionaly appears in an existential crisis wherein all major pillars of state stand engulfed in a systemic failure likely to endanger regional security and a crisis from which Pakistan cannot retrieve itself without a change of existing mindsets by Pakistan’s policy establishment.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Tue, 09/26/2017 - 04:57
Paper No. 6308 Dated 26-Sept-2017
By Dr Subhash Kapila
Geopolitically, in the context of a threatening Asian security environment, the Second US-Japan-India Trilateral Ministerial Dialogue of the Foreign Ministers of the three nations was held in New York on September 18 2017 on the side-lines of the UNGA Session acquires added significance.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Mon, 09/18/2017 - 05:44
Paper No. 6305 Dated 18-Sept-2017
Dr Subhash Kapila
Japan’s geopolitical and strategic imperatives for nuclear weapons were strongly existent in 2002 and highlighted by me then and when contextually reviewed in 2017 against the backdrop of China-generated North Korea nuclear flashpoint makes a Japanese nuclear weapons arsenal “Inescapable” for Japan’s survival as an Emerged Power.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Wed, 09/06/2017 - 07:01
Paper No. 6300 Dated 06-Sept-2017
By Dr Subhash Kapila
Contemporaneous and unfolding geopolitical dynamics in South and South West Asia generated by the China-Pakistan-Russia Trilateral interventionist stances on Afghanistan dictate strong imperatives for establishment of US Permanent Forward Military Presence in Afghanistan.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Mon, 09/04/2017 - 09:22
Paper No. 6297 Dated 2-Sept-2017
By Bhaskar Roy
On August 21, US President Donald Trump threatened Pakistan with heavy retribution if Islamabad did not close down terrorist havens on its soil and drive out these elements. He specifically mentioned the Afghan Taliban and the Al Qaeda, but in a manner referred to all Pakistan – supported terrorists (including understandably those that continuously target India).
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Mon, 09/04/2017 - 09:17
Paper No. 6296 Dated 1-Sept-2017
By Kazi Anwarul Masud
Odd Arne Westadt of Harvard Kennedy School of Government (The Cold War and America’s Delusion of Victory RED CENTURY AUG. 28, 2017) is of the opinion that America’s post-Cold War triumphalism came in two versions-one of Bill Clinton’s emphasis on prosperity while the other was George W Bush’s emphasis on predominance.
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