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  • After the Kashmir Move: India-Pakistan Relations0

    By revoking a temporary constitutional provision, India has stripped Jammu and Kashmir of statehood and special autonomous status, with an expectation of new investment and development for the Muslim-majority area under dispute. “Article 370 repeal has ratcheted up bilateral tensions in a big way, ensuring that India-Pakistan relations will be on tenterhooks for the foreseeable

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  • Islamophobia Embraced as Anti-Globalization Tool0

    Populists claim to represent the fears and desires of ordinary people, and nationalist forces who generally express little interest in global standards or governance are organizing around a shared hostility toward Muslims and other immigrants. Azeem Ibrahim, director of the Displacement and Migration Program at the Center for Global Policy in Washington, DC, and a

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  • Stress In Indo-US Engagement?0

    India, like many other nations, faces numerous foreign policy challenges as well as doubts about a dependable partnership with the United States. Under the Trump administration, the United States has targeted numerous countries on trade imbalances and in June announced revocation of India’s special trade status. “Despite negative headlines dominating the Indo-US diplomatic engagements in

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  • Modi’s Success in India’s Elections: Five Factors0

    Modi’s Success in India’s Elections: Five Factors | YaleGlobal Online India as an emerging economy struggles with constrained growth and rising unemployment. Yet India’s voters handed Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party a decisive victory. Gilles Verniers, assistant professor of Political Science and co-director of the Trivedi Centre for Political Data, Ashoka

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  • Two Opposing Middle East Alliances For The US0

    Two Opposing Middle East Alliances for the US | YaleGlobal Online Saudi Arabia and Iran are leading rivals in the Middle East. Religious differences help fuel the rivalry, as Saudi Arabia is primarily Sunni and Iran is Shia, yet oil interests, trade and fears about how democracy could dislodge absolute power matter, too. Alliances in

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  • India: Teflon Modi Eyes FDI0

    Narendra Modi and his supporters took firm command over issues that dominated India’s 2019 election campaign, focusing on Pakistan as major challenge. Yet severe economic problems unaddressed before the election will dog the government. “The diversionary tactics may have been successful, but Modi’s resounding electoral victory now heightens expectations of economic success,” explains journalist Kunal

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  • China’s Challenge to a US-Led World Order0

    The United States and the Soviet Union, convinced that their ideologies were incompatible, engaged in a Cold War during the latter part of the 20th century. Some suggest similar hostility emerges between the United States and a fast-rising China. “Chinese leaders repeatedly stress that China remains a powerful supporter of the current order, taking action

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  • China and Saudi Arabia Converge on Pakistan0

    Pakistan received substantial US military and financial aid since 2001, and the Trump administration canceled those payments in 2018, with the president suggesting that the country doesn’t “do anything for us.” Pakistan still has support from China, an ally since 1962, and Saudi Arabia also steps forward to invest. The benefactors have two goals in

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  • US and China: From Co-Evolution to Decoupling0

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    • December 8, 2018

    Henry Kissinger secretly visited China in 1971 to restore US ties, and the Chinese have respected him since. With a trade war underway and US concerns about intellectual property theft, the relationship has soured and transformed: from co-evolution, described by Kissinger as pursuit of domestic imperatives and cooperating as possible to decoupling. “The parochial outlook

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  • Book review: China’s Change: The Greatest Show on Earth0

    Hugh Peyman World Scientific 2018 978-981-3231-99-3 A review by Humphrey Hawksley LONDON: Hugh Peyman makes a timely argument about how other countries could learn from the rise of China in his book China’s Change: The Greatest Show on Earth. To absorb the argument fully, however, readers must shelve one premise that has long been part of

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  • India’s Skillful Posturing With the US0

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    • October 19, 2018

    Relations between the United States and India have gradually improved, but the world’s largest democracy has an independent streak as seen in two recent cases: First, India signed a multibillion deal to purchase a Russian air-defense missile system thereby risking sanctions approved by the US Congress in 2017. Second, the United States withdrew from the

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  • Pakistan’s Civil-Military Relations0

    • Blog
    • October 11, 2018

    Pakistan’s civilian government has little control over the country’s powerful army which stands out as a most trusted institution, with more than 80 percent public approval, compared to 36 percent approval for government. Weak institutions that fail to address Pakistan’s challenges have allowed the army to become more assertive, explains Riaz Hassan, research professor and

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  • China’s Crackdown on Muslims0

    • Blog
    • September 18, 2018

    The Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, or East Turkestan as preferred by some residents, is China’s largest region. The region is home to 21 million people, most of whom are Uyghurs, Kazakhs and others who share the Muslim faith. The region accounts for less than 2 percent of China’s population, yet 21 percent of all arrests

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  • Rohingya Crisis Diminishes Aung San Suu Kyi0

    The world continues to shrug and take meaningless gestures on the highly visible Rohingya crisis a year after the Myanmar military burned villages and drove more than 700,000 minority people across the border into Bangladesh and beyond. Myanmar, insisting that the Rohingyas are not citizens, have redistributed their land and shown no genuine willingness to

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