West Asia

Paper No. 6273              Dated 30-June-2017

  Guest Column By Ravi Sundaralingam

The 13 points demand made by Saudi Arabia and its allies against Qatar, their erstwhile cousins and co-sponsors of Wahabi/ Salafi -Jihadi extremism/ militancy, is weird as anything one can imagine.

We have grouped the Saudi demands into two categories to understand the mind-sets writing these demands.

Part 1 lists five that deal with Saudi views on Freedom, Society and National Sovereignty.

Paper No. 6268                                Dated  12th June 2017

By Dr Subhash Kapila

Paper No. 6140                                 Dated 01-Jul-2016                                 

By Dr Subhash Kapila

Pakistan-China-India Triangle was evidently in play at Seoul NSG Meet in June 2016 when Pakistan asked China to block India’s entry into NSG, China strongly blocks India, so, and Turkey backs China’s attempt to keep India out of NSG.

Paper No. 6091                                 Dated 30-Mar-2016

By Dr Subhash Kapila

Iran perceives its relations with India on a strategic plane and much differently from its “brotherly relations” with Pakistan, notwithstanding any contemporary prodding by China and Russia on Iran to firm-up relations with Pakistan in pursuance of adding Iran to the China-Pakistan Axis, preposterous as the latter may sound to foreign policy specialists.

Paper No. 6067                                Dated 29-Jan-2016

By Bhaskar Roy

Paper No. 6051                                   Dated 01-Jan-2016

Guest Column by Dr. Sudhanshu Tripathi

As has been seen in the past that terrorism or any kind of uncontrolled violence perpetrated upon innocents for long have always resulted into large scale migrations from their homes to other safer places in the world, thereby affecting geo-politics- a branch of study which deals with relations between geography and politics.

Paper No. 6028                                  Dated 03-Nov-2015

By Dr. Parasaran Rangarajan