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Kargil Disclosures and the Nuclear Proliferation Debate
Photo Credit: Al Jazeera English My last post focused on the domestic implications in Pakistan of the latest revelations about the 1999 Kargil mini-war. Since the crisis is a key point of contention...
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Obama’s Afghan Dysfunctions
Earlier posts have commented on the Obama administration’s defective foreign policy apparatus as well as its highly dysfunctional management of the war in Afghanistan (here and here). Both problems...
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Sino-Indian Relations Full of Contradictions
The following post is based on an address I delivered at the Shanghai Maritime Strategy Research Center two weeks ago. The punditry gods were smiling when Beijing and New Delhi declared 2012 as the...
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The Asia Pivot Has Credibility Problems
Tom Donilon, the U.S. national security advisor, was at the Asia Society in New York last week to talk (transcript here; video here) about the Obama administration’s effort to shift Washington’s...
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The Desi Factor in U.S.-India Relations
U.S. President Barack Obama (R) listen to India’s Prime Minister Manmohan Singh make a toast during a State Dinner in a giant tent on the South Lawn of the White House, November 24, 2009....
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U.S. Strategic Credibility in Asia: An Update
In a post two weeks ago, I argued that the Obama administration confronts a serious credibility gap in Asia and cited as one example the small but growing number of influential South Koreans calling...
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The Iraq Endgame and the Lessons for Afghanistan: An Update
Washington is in a rush and everyone knows it The U.S. commentariat spent much of last month ruminating over the lessons of the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq. Left unexamined were the...
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Pakistan: Will the Youth Bulge turn into a Democratic Dividend?
I argued in an earlier post that much of Pakistan’s future direction will hinge on events unfolding this year. The first of these are the national elections scheduled for May 11, which could be...
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Red Line Blues: North Korea, Iran and Syria
Photo Credit: Christopher Dilts via Flickr A defining moment for Mr. Obama’s foreign policy legacy is fast approaching From the Levant and the Persian Gulf to the Korean peninsula, events in recent...
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Time for a North American Energy Initiative
This blog regularly focuses on the foreign policy reverberations of the U.S. energy boom. As discussed in earlier posts (here and here), these include the gradual paring back of U.S. strategic...
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Benghazi and Hillary Clinton’s Day of Dissonance
Last Wednesday was a day of extremes for the former Secretary of State, who was in Beverly Hills to pick up a public service award from a private foreign policy organization. There her tenure at the...
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Obama in the Middle East: Fading Red Lines and Eroding Credibility
A post last month argued that President Obama was fast approaching a defining moment for his foreign policy in view of the mounting evidence that the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria used sarin, a...
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Obama’s NDU Speech: Implications for Tehran
The major speech on counter-terrorism policy President Obama delivered last week at the National Defense University has generated a great deal of commentary about its implications for drone strikes...
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India and Pakistan: Dangers Ahead for the Revived Spirit of Lahore
Nawaz Sharif’s return to the helm in Islamabad is sparking optimism that a more stable and constructive India-Pakistan relationship is in the offing. But South Asia is a rough-and-tumble neighborhood...
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India: Asia’s Geopolitical Sweetheart
Photo: Ramesh Lalwani Economic doldrums mean that India is not much of a destination for global investors nowadays and the flight of foreign capital is depressing the rupee’s value to record lows...
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U.S.-India Strategic Dialogue: What Not To Do
Secretary of State John F. Kerry is in New Delhi for the annual U.S.-India Strategic Dialogue. He’s receiving plenty of good advice (examples here, here and here) on what he and Salman Khurshid, the...
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Obama and Syria: Red Lines Redeemed?
I’ve contended in previous posts (here, here and here) that President Obama’s failure to enforce his numerous threats against the use of chemical weapons by the Bashir al-Assad regime in Damascus is a...
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U.S. and India: The So-So Strategic Dialogue
State Department photo/Public Domain This year’s session of the annual U.S.-India Strategic Dialogue, which brought Secretary of State John Kerry to New Delhi two weeks ago, produced few headlines....
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To Be Taken Seriously By Others, India Needs to First Look Inside
“It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.” Several developments related to India call to mind William Shakespeare’s famous line in Julius Caesar. The first are the tours of the...
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India and the United States: Can the Elephant Pivot?
Joe Biden is in India this week, the latest effort in the Obama administration’s three-year effort to enlist New Delhi in a closer strategic partnership aimed at hedging against a rising China....
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