Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Mon, 05/08/2017 - 05:06
Paper No. 6253 Dated 08-May-2017
By Dr Subhash Kapila
The Islamic Military Alliance to Fight Terrorism (IMAFT) sponsored by Saudi Arabia which is a misnomer as it is essentially a “Sunni Muslim NATO Alliance” has finally emerged in May 2017 commanded by former Pak Army Chief, General Raheel Sharif.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Mon, 04/10/2017 - 05:40
Paper No. 6241 Dated 10-Apr-2017
By Dr Subhash Kapila
The United States in 2017 seems to be falling into the same trap of the decade of the 2000s wherein US Middle East-predominant policy focus enabled China’s military rise threatening American predominance in East Asia.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Wed, 10/12/2016 - 05:51
Paper No. 6183 Dated 12-Oct-2016
By Dr Subhash Kapila
The United States stood strategically distracted from Asia Pacific in the last decade resulting in China’s unimpeded militarisation of the South China Sea and the emergence of China as a maritime power—both impinging on stability and credibility of US security architecture.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Tue, 07/26/2016 - 09:23
Paper No. 6153 Dated 26-Jul-2016
By Dr Subhash Kapila
Turkey’s political turbulence evidenced by the attempted military coup in recent weeks in mid-2016 raises grave strategic concerns arising from its crucial geostrategic location astride the junction of Europe and Asia.
Turkey perceptionaly stands besieged today both internally and externally as a result of its domestic politics and its foreign policy deviating from its long established Western-centric policies.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Mon, 05/09/2016 - 05:58
Paper No. 6112 Dated 09-May-2016
By Dr Subhash Kapila
The Middle East sands in 2016 seem to shifting at great speed buffeted by strong and unpredictable winds both regionally and globally generating strategic uncertainties and challenges for the United States.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Tue, 03/22/2016 - 06:39
Paper No. 6088 Dated 22-Mar-2016
By Dr Subhash Kapila
India in 2016 is faced with serious foreign policy predicaments in its Middle East foreign policy formulations in terms of coherent strategic choices cutting through the complicated maze of regional power rivalries and a return of Great Power interventions casting complicated shadows on regional power-play.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Thu, 02/25/2016 - 05:06
Paper No. 6079 Dated 25-Feb-2016
By Dr Subhash Kapila
China foisted Cold War II on the United States in the first decade of the 21st Century and which has in 2015 assumed clearer contours and that leads to the crucial question whether the United States can afford a concurrent revival of Cold War I with Russia in support of Saudi Arabia’s and Turkey’s regional power-play with Iran.
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