Blog Indian Punchline, 06.06.2022 M.K. Bhadrakumar, embajador (r) y columnista indioThe outrage in the Muslim world over the transgression of the red line in anti-Muslim politics in India is understandable, although the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party acted swiftly for damage control. The point is, the world has taken note that anti-Muslim politics has reached a crescendo...
Engagement With China Was Always a Long Shot
Artículo Foreign Policy, 12.05.2022 Aaron L. Friedberg, Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University.
As the Cold War drew to a close, the United States and the other liberal democracies opened their doors to China in the belief that, by doing so, they would cause its system...Beijing’s Leninist regime is fundamentally resistant to change.
Central Asia Is Keeping a Nervous Eye on Russia’s War in Ukraine
Artículo World Politics Review, 26.04.2022 Jeffrey Mankoff, académico (Institute for National Strategic Studies-U.S. National Defense University)Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is upending the geopolitical calculations of states around the world. The fallout is especially complex for the post-Soviet states of Central Asia, which maintain extensive economic, political, cultural and other ties to both Russia and Ukraine. While...
Sri Lankan situation is fraught with danger
Columna Indian Punchline, 15.05.2022 M.K. Bhadrakumar, embajador (r), profesor y columnista indioIndia finds itself between the rock and a hard place in its approach to the Sri Lankan crisis. There is no question that the government attributes primacy to Sri Lanka remaining a practising democracy. But the developing situation in that country is going to be...
Notas sobre la expansión territorial de Rusia
Blog POLIS: Política y Cultura, 18.01.2022 Fernando Mires, historiador y profesor (U. de Oldenburgo)Para nadie es un misterio que Rusia, gracias al comando de Putin, se encuentra en intenso proceso de expansión territorial. No está claro si el objetivo será la reconstrucción de un imperio euroasiático como pronosticó en 1997 Zbigniew Brzeziński, o si ese imperio...
US plays QUAD card during Beijing Olympics
Blog Indian Punchline, 05.02.2022 M.K. Bhadrakumar, embajador (r) y columnista indioThe appalling decision by the External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar to huddle together with his QUAD colleagues bang in the middle of the Beijing Winter Olympics may have unpleasant consequences. China sees QUAD as a US-led clique working to “contain” it. An action-reaction syndrome has once again...
Putin Has Turned Russia Into Autocracy’s Defender of Last Resort
Artículo World Politics Review, 13.01.2022 Frida Ghitis, world affairs reporterThere’s much that remains unknown about the violent turmoil that has engulfed Kazakhstan in recent days. But one clear fact has emerged from the mayhem: Vladimir Putin’s political doctrine has a new, now openly displayed centerpiece. On Monday, as the Russian president declared Kazakhstan’s crisis essentially resolved following...
Nazarbayev’s Fate in Kazakhstan Is a Cautionary Tale for Putin and Xi
Artículo World Politics Review, 12.01.2022 Howard W. French, corresponsal extranjero independiente y analista de asuntos globalesMore even than most crises, the events unfolding in Kazakhstan in recent days can be read in myriad ways. On one level, it clearly appears to have resulted in yet another opportunity for Russian President Vladimir Putin to claw back control over domains...
South Korea Has Quietly Taken Sides in the U.S.-China Rivalry
Artículo World Politics Review, 04.01.2022 Ramon Pacheco Pardo, profesor de RRII (King’s College-London y Brussels School of Governance)South Korea’s era of “strategic ambiguity” when it comes to taking sides in the great power rivalry between its historical ally and its rising neighbor is well and truly over. The Moon Jae-in government has moved away from seeking...
Reflections on Events in Afghanistan-31
Columna Indian Punchline, 02.11.2021 M.K. Bhadrakumar, embajador (r) y columnista indio
India plays Russian cardThe chances were slim that the Pakistani National Security Advisor Moeed Yusuf would accept the invitation from his counterpart Ajit Doval to a regional meet of security tsars in New Delhi to discus the situation in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan. Nonetheless, the dismissive manner in...