The Times Square Bomber: Home-Grown Hatred?
By Ahmed Rashid | 20 May 2010 The Pakistani media is in a state of apoplexy about the would-be Times Square bomber, the Pakistani-born US citizen Faisal Shahzad. Predictably a great...
Estimating the Impact of the Indo-ASEAN Free Trade Agreement on India’s Balance of Trade*
By Ranajoy Bhattacharyya and Avijit Mandal | 15 April 2010 India signed a Free Trade Agreement with ASEAN on 13th August, 2009. Abstract In this paper we analyze one aspect...
Security Sector Reform in Afghanistan: Whose Security?
By Prof. Alp Ozerdem | 01 April 2010 As part of the liberal peace agenda, the international community has implemented Security Sector Reform (SSR) in almost all contexts where it has...
What is Living and What is Dead in Political Confucianism: A Question for Modern China
Written by ANTONY OU Monday, 05 April 2010 09:45 Confucius (551-479 BCE), was the “founding father” of Confucianism. His moral and political ideas were documented in The Analects, which outlines...
They’re Not Brainwashed, They’re Just Miserable
By Marcus Noland | 30 March 2010 This month, North Korea reportedly executed the Korean Workers' Party's economic policy director, Pak Nam Gi, for being a "bourgeois infiltrator" who ruined the...
U.S.-China Military Tensions Grow
Rick Rozoff 20 January 2010 Even though the U.S. military budget is almost ten times that of China's (with a population more than four times as large) and Washington...
Washington’s Arms Deal With Taiwan Threatens US-China Relations
Nick Amies 02 February 2010 A $6.4-billion (4.6-billion euros) arms deal between the United States and Taiwan has enraged China and threatens to endanger cooperation betweenWashington and Beijing on key international and regional issues. The Pentagon's approval last...
Return to Mumbai
Sohail Rahman As I travelled from the airport to Marine Drive on November 27, 2008 the sun was setting and the roads leading from the Chhatrapati Shivaji Airport in the north of...
The history of the Tamil Tigers
The conflict between Sri Lanka's government forces and armed Tamil rebels has raged for nearly 60 years. Thousands have died and many more have been made homeless by the fighting. ...
Obama Visits China With Closer Ties in Mind
U.S. President Barack Obama is on his first official trip to China, where he is expected to discuss the economy and climate change. Mr. Obama arrived late Sunday in Shanghai....
Dalai Lama’s visit angers China
The Dalai Lama has angered the Chinese government with a visit to a Tibetan Buddhist monastery town in the remote northeast Indian region of Arunachal Pradesh. The Tibetan spiritual leader said his visit on Sunday...
From Adversaries to Allies
Yevgeny Bazhanov When I was assigned to work at the Soviet Embassy in Beijing in 1982, many of my fellow diplomats asked, “What did you do wrong to get such...
Washington should not forget its Asian allies
Brad Glosserman The United States has scaled back plans to deploy a missile defense shield in Eastern Europe. While that decision reflects a new assessment of the Iranian threat to...
Mao’s China at 60
Chris Patten Every country is shaped by its history, but countries fabricate and rewrite their histories, too. The story of how we became who we are needs to accommodate our...
Think Again: Asia’s Rise
Minxin Pei Don't believe the hype about the decline of America and the dawn of a new Asian age. It will be many decades before China, India, and the...