The Indo-Pak peace conference concluded with a pledge to uphold democracy, but failed to demonstrate it by limiting its invitation only to representatives from the Kashmir valley and ignoring other stakeholders.

• Senge H. Sering |
• January 28, 2010 |
• IDSA Comments

There is a contradiction between the CCP methodology which is based on loyalty to the authoritarian ideology and the information age which recognizes the importance of the individual as a critical entity.

• Gunjan Singh |
• January 28, 2010 |
• IDSA Comments

To gain the trust of Seoul and Beijing, the DPJ government plans to present a bill in the Diet for granting the right of franchise to foreign nationals registered as permanent residents, a majority of whom are South Korean and Chinese.

• Shamshad A. Khan |
• January 21, 2010 |
• IDSA Comments

The landslide victory of Awami League in Bangladesh elections created hope of revival of the 1972 constitution of which secularism was an important element. The government of Shaikh Hasina is trying to deal with this issue in a cautious manner.

• Anand Kumar |
• January 19, 2010 |
• IDSA Comments

Unless Baloch nationalists get their act together in pursuit of ‘achievable nationhood’, it will be only a matter of time before this latest upsurge in Balochistan will be brutally crushed.

• Sushant Sareen |
• January 19, 2010 |
• IDSA Comments

Bhutan and China have decided on a joint field survey to enable harmonising the reference points and names of the disputed areas.

• Medha Bisht |
• January 19, 2010 |
• IDSA Comments

Across the globe, a crucial but largely unseen and unheard of force in the Global War on Terrorism is emerging – young, hardened, militant, radicalized recruits from Africa – a force potent enough to compel governments to revise their handbooks on how best to contend with Islamic extremism.

• Mayank Bubna |
• January 14, 2010 |
• IDSA Comments

India should clarify through actions and words that it has no intention of interfering in Nepal, that it respects Nepal’s sovereignty and that it is ready to work with any dispensation in Nepal for furthering mutual security and economic concerns.

• Nihar R. Nayak |
• January 13, 2010 |
• IDSA Comments

If India indeed considers itself to be a rising power, it cannot remain a passive in the face of instability all around it.

• Ramesh Phadke |
• January 12, 2010 |
• IDSA Comments

Although Iran’s regime is under no immediate danger of being toppled, it however faces a growing number of internal and external threats which will necessitate prudent redressing.

• M. Mahtab Alam Rizvi |
• January 08, 2010 |
• IDSA Comments