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The New Power Game
Jaswant Singh
Is a new Cold War emerging among Asia’s powers – China, India, Indonesia, Japan, and South Korea? Can Pakistan ever be weaned off its support of the Taliban? Is Asia’s role in managing Iran’s nuclear ambitions being neglected?
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India’s Year of Living Stagnantly
Jaswant Singh Series: The New Power Game 
2012-01-25Last 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 Comments: 1 Recommended: 0 Read: 6724
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Present at the Asian Creation
Jaswant Singh Series: The New Power Game 2011-12-23Asia’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 Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 8430
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A South Asian Grand Bargain
Jaswant Singh Series: The New Power Game 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 Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 9781
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Asia’s Giants Colliding at Sea?
Jaswant Singh Series: The New Power Game 2011-10-24Even 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 Comments: 4 Recommended: 0 Read: 11576
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India’s Wounded State
Jaswant Singh Series: The New Power Game 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 Comments: 1 Recommended: 0 Read: 7951
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India’s Neighborhood Watch
Jaswant Singh Series: The New Power Game 2011-08-17In 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 Comments: 1 Recommended: 0 Read: 9562
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Asia’s BRICs Hit the Wall
Jaswant Singh Series: The New Power Game 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 Comments: 6 Recommended: 0 Read: 12754
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The End of Liberal Interventionism
Jaswant Singh Series: The New Power Game 2011-06-28It 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 Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 7779
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The Osama Opening
Jaswant Singh Series: The New Power Game
2011-05-13
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 Comments: 1 Recommended: 0 Read: 9605
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