No need for India to fall in US-Japan trap
During a recent closed-door seminar endorsed by Washington-based Hudson Institute and New Delhi-based Vivekananda International Foundation, scholars from both countries said cooperation betw... Read more
‘Pivot to the Pacific’ is over, senior U.S. diplomat says
The Obama administration’s Pacific rebalance effort — also known as the Pivot to the Pacific — effort is officially dead, according to a top State Department official. Asked by reporters abo... Read more
Danger on the Durand Line
Last month, Pakistan suffered its deadliest spasm of terrorist violence since 2014. Over a period of four days in February, militants struck all four Pakistani provinces and three major urba... Read more
A Japan-India Partnership In Maritime-Asia – Analysis
In recent months, Japan-India cooperation in the maritime commons has been a subject of animated discussion in strategic circles. Following Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Tok... Read more
The U.S.-Mexico relationship is dangerously on the edge
Over the past two decades, Mexico and the United States—once distant neighbors—have profoundly transformed their relationship. Driven first by the huge socioeconomic convergence triggered by... Read more
World Order 2.0
For nearly four centuries, since the Peace of Westphalia, which ended the Thirty Years’ War, the concept of sovereignty—the right of nations to an independent existence and autonomy—has occu... Read more
The time is right for a new ‘Pax Asiana’
Asia must strive to protect its freedoms as the world shifts amid US protectionism and waning Western influence Najib, an early supporter of Trump, was one of the few Southeast Asian leaders... Read more
Nicobar as an IAF base in the Indian Ocean: Strategic Asset or Liability?
The Indian Ocean Region (IOR) is slowly but surely turning out to be an area where there would be or perhaps there already is a conflict of interest between China and India. At the opening o... Read more
John Kerry: What We Got Right
With a new administration taking office this week, it is natural to assess the inheritance it will receive from the old. There are some who see nightmares wherever they look and insist that... Read more
What the World Might Look Like in 5 Years, According to US Intelligence
Every four years, a group of U.S. intelligence analysts tries to predict the future. And this year, in a report released just weeks before Donald Trump assumes the presidency, those analysts... Read more