Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Mon, 11/13/2017 - 07:04
Paper No. 6319 Dated 13-Nov-2017
By Dr Subhash Kapila
US President Trump’s first tour of the Asia Pacific in November 2017, nearly a year after assuming office, raises two questions in terms of estimative analysis--- whether it was a strategic foray to a highly volatile region critical for US security or was it merely a diplomatic necessity, particularly in relation to China?
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Mon, 11/06/2017 - 07:25
Paper No. 6318 Dated 06-Nov-2017
By Dr Subhash Kapila
Strange and ironical are geopolitical histories of a region where within two decades geopolitical alignments have spun on their heads. This happens to be the case of Afghanistan’s turbulent last two decades where a new and serious power tussle is underway between two Strategic Trilaterals.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Mon, 10/30/2017 - 07:21
Paper No. 6317 Dated 30-Oct-2017
By Dr Subhash Kapila;
The major outcome of China’s 19th National People’s Congress (NPC) just concluded heralds a return of the “Personality Cult” with President Xi Jinping’s ruthless abolition of a ‘Collective Leadership’ and manoeuvring his elevation to China’s pantheon of Mao Tse Tung and Deng Xiao Peng.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Mon, 10/23/2017 - 06:24
Paper No. 6315 Dated 23-Oct-2017
By Dr Subhash Kapila
Geopolitical imperatives generated by China’s aggressive bid for global dominance in 2017 has prodded the United States to make the game changing offer of transforming the US-India Strategic Partnership into a dynamic predominantly security-centric relationship catering for Indo Pacific security.
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.
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