Jaswant Singh
Jaswant Singh, a former Indian finance minister, foreign minister, and defense minister, is the author of Jinnah: India – Partition – Independence.
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2012-02-21
| Thirty-three years ago, then-US National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski spoke of “an arc of crisis” coursing through the Middle East and into Central Asia. Today, events from Syria to Pakistan suggest that Brzezinski’s arc is more salient than ever.... read |
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2012-01-25
| Last year, India's GDP growth decelerated, manufacturing plummeted, and corruption grew uncontrollably, while the government failed to enact even a single piece of legislation, much less undertake any economic reforms, control inflation, or address widespread civil disorder. Will 2012 prove to be a year of renewal for India, or another annus horribilis?... read |
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2011-12-23
| Asia’s economic dynamism is beginning to find a parallel in the region’s diplomacy, particularly where security is concerned. This is a response not only to China’s rise, but also to the gaping hole in Asia’s security architecturethat will be left when America and the West remove their troops from Afghanistan, without first having established peace there.... read |
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2011-11-22
| Given South Asia's intense rivalries, the only path to regional peace and stability runs not through incremental agreements, but through a “grand accord” that reconciles all of the powers’ deepest national-security interests. But is such an accord feasible?... read |
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2011-10-24
| Even in an age of 24-hour globalized news, some important events only come to light well after the fact. Something of this sort happened several months ago in the South China Sea – and may shape how relations between the world’s two most populous countries, China and India, develop in the years ahead.... read |
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2011-09-27
| Weeks of anti-corruption protests launched by Anna Harare, and supported by the country’s rising middle class, brought India’s government to a virtual standstill this summer. Which side one supports, the consequences are disturbing: Indian society, the core of Indian nationhood, is now questioning the very legitimacy of the Indian state.... read |
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2011-08-17
| In the South Asian subcontinent, crammed as it is with deeply troubled countries, India’s role in promoting stability and prosperity is essential. But is India capable of fulfilling that agenda?... read |
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2011-07-28
| China and India have used very different political models to achieve their GDP growth targets. Nonetheless, as their economies mature, both will need to embrace structural change – and to address the challenges of overdue political reforms.... read |
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2011-06-28
| It should surprise no one that, as we see in Libya and the Middle East more generally, liberal intervention and the age of America as the lone superpower are drawing to a close simultaneously. At the end of history, it seems, was a lot more history.... read |
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The Osama Opening
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If the world is to reap the benefits of Osama bin Laden's death, the respective national aims of Afghanistan, the US, India, Pakistan, Iran, and the region’s other important countries must somehow be reconciled. The US has a unique opportunity to assist in finding the correct regional balance.... read
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2010-12-15
| The relationship between the world’s two most populous countries and largest emerging economies, India and China, that will increasingly set much of the global agenda. But China seems unable to grasp the strategic importance of ties with India, and in fact is undermining the goal of cooperation.... read |
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2011-01-18
| This is a watershed moment for Pakistan. Will it survive the current maelstrom of challenges that it faces – exemplified by the recent assassination of Governor Salmaan Taseer of Punjab by one of his bodyguards, an Islamic zealot – or will it founder on a theocratic path leading back centuries in time?... read |
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2010-10-27
| On November 7, Barack Obama will visit India for the first time as president. Where, asks India's architect of improved relations with the US, is the bilateral relationship headed?... read |
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2010-09-24
| China's "string of pearls" policy, aimed at encircling India by sea with strategically positioned naval stations, and on land by promoting bogus Pakistani claims that undermine India’s territorial integrity, takes the “Great Game” to a new and more dangerous level. The outcome will determine whether the current century will be Asian or Chinese.... read |
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2011-02-17
| Will Egypt’s revolution travel beyond the Nile? This is the question that now haunts not only other Arab lands, but also governments from Washington to Beijing as they scramble to re-evaluate decades-old strategic certainties.... read |
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2010-07-28
| India is at the threshold of an era of unprecedented growth. But to cross it, Indians must craft a new idea of India – as the flagship of a modern global economy that unleashes the dynamism of all citizens.... read |
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2010-11-26
| As a new round of negotiations with Iran begins – with EU High Representative Catherine Ashton the first into the breach – finding a way to move Iran-US relations beyond their freighted past is an urgent matter. That requires offering Iran a diplomatic ladder that it can climb down with its dignity intact, not more Western bluster and sanctions.... read |
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2010-08-09
| It now seems clear to anyone with eyes that the invasion of Afghanistan was built upon the great miscalculation that Afghanistan can be successfully invaded. The realization of this historical truth, which the Wikileaks exposure of raw US intelligence data has brought home, is now troubling today’s invaders.... read |
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2010-06-04
| Until the failed attempt to bomb Times Square, America and the West may have felt as if there was a lull in terrorism. In Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India, no such feeling ever took hold, and the question has not been whether the "war on terror" can be wound down, but whether Pakistan, which in many ways has become Islamic terrorism’s nexus, is doing all that it can to fight it.... read |
2012-02-21
