Asia Opinion

Given the plural nature of Indian society, diverse images of China are present in the average Indian mind. These images tend to vary from one extreme to the other. ...

The idea of a Russia-China-India triangle has appeared logically in connection with the new political structuring of the world and the aggravating rivalry around the issue of the future world order. ...

This article focuses upon India’s Look East Strategy, which has been a cornerstone of the country’s new foreign policy orientation after the end of the Cold War. It reflects a newfound inclination on India’s part to play a pre-eminent role...

Media reports from Japan indicate that as widely forecast by opinion polls, the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) has won the elections to the House of Representatives, the lower House of the Japanese Diet (Parliament), held on August 30, 2009,dislodging...

The present crisis in the BJP is being widely covered in the media, more than what it should be. Humiliating a national party and getting comments mainly unfavourable from selected people does no good for a democracy where the good...

A quarter century of LTTE-led militancy and terrorism in Sri Lanka came to an end in May 2009. Some of the trends that have been and are emerging in “post-war” Sri Lanka need to be noted and considered by policy-makers...

By George Perkovich (Washington Quarterly, Winter 2003-04, 27:1 pp. 129-144) (George Perkovich is vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, in Washington, D.C., and author of India’s Nuclear Bomb.) Keenneth Waltz provided a useful, colloquial definition of power as...