The tremendous growth in Bangladesh’s exports has been due to three factors – the global recession, new markets and China’s spectacular economic growth.

• Anand Kumar
• September 27, 2010
• IDSA Comments

Shaping responses towards the issue of Chumbi Valley would perhaps require a penetrating understanding of the “reality” that defines China’s political trajectory in South Asia in coming years.

• Medha Bisht
• September 23, 2010
• IDSA Comments

The win-win situation for India and China lies in respecting the ‘buffer-status of Nepal’ which will also ensure political stability in Nepal.

• Pramod Jaiswal
• September 16, 2010
• IDSA Comments

A recent New York Times report that 11,000 soldiers of the Peoples’ Liberation Army have been stationed in the Gilgit-Baltistan region of the PoK, carries important implications for India. For India to put forth its legitimate claim to the whole of Kashmir, the time is now or else, never.

• Priyanka Singh
• September 09, 2010
• IDSA Comments

Creating levers of influence and pursuing a pro-active engagement with Bhutan’s decision-makers is the most effective way of shaping political will to engage the Bhutanese establishment over the issue of refugee repatriation.

• Medha Bisht
• September 07, 2010
• IDSA Comments

While the world community is trying its best to provide help to flood affected Pakistan in spite of aid fatigue, SAARC is conspicuous by its absence.

• Smruti S. Pattanaik
• August 20, 2010
• IDSA Comments

Apart from alleviating the material plight of the people, transforming the feudal mindset and operationalising reforms to induce fair play and social justice should be one of the long term priority areas for the civilian government in Pakistan.

• Medha Bisht
• August 19, 2010
• IDSA Comments

In international conflict resolution, there is a term called ‘disaster diplomacy’, which explains how a disaster in one country may open new ways of interaction and how it brings a new perspective to persisting issues.

• Mehmet Ozkan
• August 18, 2010
• IDSA Comments

India needs to chalk out a new paradigm of engagement with the emerging Nepal in which economic and border management issues are prioritised over political issues.

• Arvind Gupta
• August 18, 2010
• IDSA Comments

A clean-up operation by the Pakistan Army could actually end up sharpening the ethnic polarisation in the city, which in turn could lead to the conflagration that everyone in Karachi fears.

• Sushant Sareen
• August 18, 2010
• IDSA Comments

The anger and frustration of the people against the political parties and the nimble footed response of the Islamists will result in disaffection of people towards the state and rising support for the jihadis.

• Rumel Dahiya
• August 12, 2010
• IDSA Comments

While the US may continue to keep its contacts with the Pakistani army and its political leadership and strengthen its presence in Pakistan, can it contain the tide of Islamic radicalism prospering within Pakistan?

• Ashok K. Behuria
• August 05, 2010
• IDSA Comments

India has to prepare itself for the consequences of an unstable Pakistan headed by a weak civilian government, effectively controlled by the army.

• Ashok K. Behuria , Shamshad A. Khan
• August 03, 2010
• IDSA Comments

India should now focus on handling internal differences, balancing issues across sectors and forging a domestic consensus in order to enhance its negotiating posture vis-a-vis Pakistan

• Medha Bisht
• July 27, 2010
• IDSA Comments

Multi-party democracy in Maldives is facing a major crisis in the wake of a bitter political struggle between the president and the opposition-dominated national parliament.

• Anand Kumar
• July 27, 2010
• IDSA Comments

Recent arrests prove the close relationship between Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh and extremist groups that have vowed to turn Bangladesh into an Islamic state.

• Anand Kumar
• July 22, 2010
• IDSA Comments

Since the US and its allies have no additional troops to contribute for the fight against the radical extremist forces in Afghanistan, the net must be enlarged to include military contributions from Afghanistan’s regional neighbours, perhaps under a UN flag.

• Gurmeet Kanwal
• July 19, 2010
• IDSA Comments

India should try and broaden its engagement with all sections of Pakistani society which is getting differentiated due to the simultaneous multiple crises in that country.

• Arvind Gupta
• July 19, 2010
• IDSA Comments

The India-Pakistan dialogue could be restructured in a way that allows them to engage each other in a formal but unstructured strategic political dialogue which focuses beyond immediate disputes and problems.

• Sushant Sareen
• July 15, 2010
• IDSA Comments

The survey in J&K and ‘Azad Kashmir’ indicates that people consider unemployment as a major problem, followed by corruption, poor economic development and human rights abuses.

• Smruti S. Pattanaik
• July 07, 2010
• IDSA Comments