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Program(s): Peace and Security, Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies

Topic(s): Fragile States, United Nations

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A Tale of an Election and a Selection

Unless the P5 recognize that a weak and inept leader challenges their own legitimacy, the UN will be encumbered by a powerless leader

Publication Date: Feb 29, 2016

Author(s) / Contributor(s): WPS Sidhu

Region/Country: South Asia, India

Topic(s): United Nations

The United States, India and Iran: Managing a Delicate Balance

The India-U.S. relationship is presently stronger than at anytime in their history. The twin summits – less than six months apart – in September 2014 and January 2015 between President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Narendra Modi have repaired, revived and revitalized the strategic partnership. Yet there remain several hurdles to deepening the relationship, notably, geopolitical differences over Iran, Russia, Syria and India’s membership of various nuclear and missile export control regimes.

Publication Date: Feb 23, 2016

Author(s) / Contributor(s): WPS Sidhu

Region/Country: Middle East, United States, South Asia, India

Topic(s): Global Governance, India, South Asia

India’s challenge of securing the seas

Despite articulating its intentions and working with several other nations, India faces formidable internal and external challenges in securing its interests

Publication Date: Feb 15, 2016

Author(s) / Contributor(s): WPS Sidhu

Region/Country: China, East Asia, South Asia, India

Topic(s): Global Governance, South Asia

Pakistan Must Free Itself from the Taliban Trap

Islamabad has to remove terrorism from the India-Pakistan relationship, and India’s restraint is helping it. But that restraint can continue only as long as Pakistan takes firm measures against those guilty of anti-Indian terrorism

Publication Date: Feb 09, 2016

Author(s) / Contributor(s): Barnett Rubin

Region/Country: South Asia, Afghanistan, India, Pakistan

Program(s): Afghanistan-Pakistan Regional Project

Topic(s): Afghanistan, Fragile States, India, Pakistan, South Asia

Xi Jinping’s strategic Middle East gambit

The Chinese president’s visit to Iran (after summits in Saudi Arabia and Egypt) is of strategic significance

Publication Date: Feb 01, 2016

Author(s) / Contributor(s): WPS Sidhu

Region/Country: China, Middle East, South Asia, India, Pakistan

Topic(s): India, Pakistan, South Asia

The global implications of Barack Obama’s speech

The US president’s swan song has eloquently, though incompletely, spelt out an ambitious but essential vision for a new world order

Publication Date: Jan 19, 2016

Author(s) / Contributor(s): WPS Sidhu

Region/Country: United States, South Asia, India

Topic(s): India, South Asia

We'll always have Paris, but India's next action on climate change is what really matters

Going forward, India needs to take an active and collaborative role to position itself as an agenda setter.

Publication Date: Jan 10, 2016

Author(s) / Contributor(s): Varad Pande

Region/Country: South Asia, India

Program(s): Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies

Topic(s): India, South Asia

Gas pipeline runs through South Asia's tensions

When - or if - completed, a new natural gas pipeline would carry 33 billion cubic metres of gas from Turkmenistan through three South Asian countries.

Pakistan and India would each purchase 42 percent of the gas; the remaining 6 percent would go to Afghanistan. Afghanistan would receive about $400 million per year in transit fees, equal to about 25 percent of the state's total domestic revenue in 2015.

Publication Date: Jan 04, 2016

Author(s) / Contributor(s): Barnett Rubin

Region/Country: South Asia, Afghanistan, India, Pakistan

Program(s): Afghanistan-Pakistan Regional Project

Topic(s): Afghanistan, Pakistan, South Asia

An Interview with Waheguru Pal Singh Sidhu

Cultural, diplomatic, and economic exchange has proliferated between India and the Middle East since ancient times. This engagement has continued into the modern era. India has maintained a strong relationship with Egypt, particularly since both countries became the founders of the Non-Aligned Movement during the Cold War. India also maintains bilateral relations with Iraq, Iran, Syria, and the Gulf states, dating back to when the area was known as the Fertile Crescent and when the Arab spice trade dominated the region.

Publication Date: Dec 18, 2015

Author(s) / Contributor(s): WPS Sidhu

Region/Country: South Asia, India, Pakistan

Topic(s): India, Pakistan, South Asia