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US-China Strategic Cooperation Or Strategic Competition: An Overview
The relationship between the United States of America and the People’s Republic of China (PRC) is one of the most important relationships in the contemporary world. It is widely observed that the...
View ArticleWhy India’s Japanese Partnership Must Avoid Pitfalls Of Zero-Sum Geopolitics...
By Manoj Joshi* At the heart of it, the visit of Shinzo Abe to New Delhi is another step in the effort by Japan, India and the United States to manage the rise of China in the Asia-Pacific region. It...
View ArticleGreek Mishandling Of Key Industries Puts Bailout Agreement At Risk – Analysis
Greek politicians are no more strangers to the concept of ‘sleight of hand’ than are those of any other nation, and the emergence of the Syrian refugee crisis earlier this year provided a macabre...
View ArticleCoastal Marshes More Resilient To Sea-Level Rise Than Previously Thought
Accelerating rates of sea-level rise linked to climate change pose a major threat to coastal marshes and the vital carbon capturing they perform. But a new Duke University study finds marshes may be...
View ArticleThe US’ Tilt Towards India: Overview And Projections – Analysis
By Md Farijuddin Khan* The US policy towards India has hardly been predictable. At the moment, the US’ India policy is guided purely by its commercial and strategic regional interests. However, the New...
View ArticleReciprocal Salami-Slicing In East Asia – Analysis
China’s land reclamation in the Spratly Islands has prompted critics to attack the Obama Administration for having been caught flat-footed yet again by cunning Chinese “salami-slicing” tactics. These...
View ArticleIndo-Pacific Asia Balance Of Power – Analysis
By Dr Subhash Kapila* The global shift of power center from the Atlantic to the Asia Pacific in the last decade was a monumental shift of power pregnant with newer strategic possibilities, but without...
View ArticleSalty Sea Spray Affects Clouds
All over the planet, every day, oceans send plumes of sea spray into the atmosphere. Beyond the poetry of crashing ocean waves, this salt- and carbon-rich spray also has a dramatic effect on cloud...
View ArticleBuckpassing In South China Sea – Analysis
Recently Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi issued a stern statement urging the Great Powers to avoid adding to maritime political tensions. In comments that came less than two months after the US sailed...
View ArticleConflicting Interests And Rising Tension In The South China Sea – Analysis
By Yağmur Erşan Rising tension in the South China Sea has recently come to constitute the most critical risk of conflict in Asia. Seeing that this contested maritime region is of both political and...
View ArticleHumans Adding Less Nitrogen To Oceans Than Predicted
Human activities are likely contributing far less nitrogen to the open ocean than many atmospheric models suggest, according to a new study. That’s generally good news, but it also nullifies a...
View ArticleLong-Term Observations Hold Key To Climate Change Impact Assessment
Most ocean data sets are far too short for the accurate detection of trends resulting from global climate change, according to research published today in the journal Global Change Biology. This study,...
View ArticleIndian Ocean Politics And Security: Forecast 2016
By Vijay Sakhuja* ‘Continuity and change’, ‘continuity and no change’ and ‘new challenges and opportunities’ are important formulations for any geopolitical and geostrategic forecasting. These help...
View ArticleEnvironmental Policy Behind Imbalance In North Sea Levels Of Phosphorus And...
New research shows that European measures aimed at improving water quality through the reduction of nitrogen and phosphorus loads in the North Sea have resulted in an imbalance of these two nutrients...
View ArticleIndia, Vietnam Take Ties To Strategic Level Against Chinese Assertiveness –...
By Major General P K Chakravorty (Retd.)* Vietnam lies in the Asia-Pacific region which has of late become a major witness to a phenomenal rise of China, which as a country is not only the world’s...
View ArticleMelting Greenland Ice Sheet Could Affect Global Ocean Circulation, Climate
The influx of fresh water from the Greenland ice sheet is “freshening” the North Atlantic Ocean and could disrupt the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), an important component of...
View ArticleEast Asia On The Cusp: Forecast 2016
By Sandip Kumar Mishra* In his new year’s speech in 2016, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un expressed willingness to have talks with South Korea but just a few days later, conducted North Korea’s fourth...
View ArticleOceans To Contain More Plastic Than Fish By 2050 – OpEd
By Stella Papadopoulou The current system by which we produce, use and dispose of plastics has important drawbacks: plastic packaging material with a value of $80 billion-$120 billion is lost each...
View ArticleClimate Change: Ocean Warming Underestimated
To date, research on the effects of climate change has underestimated the contribution of seawater expansion to sea level rise due to warming of the oceans. A team of researchers at the University of...
View ArticleIndia: International Fleet Review 2016 – Analysis
An Opportunity for India to show case Capacity, Capability and Intent of a Strong Vibrant emerging Maritime Nation in the 21st Century By Commdore RS Vasan IN (Retd)* The IFR 2016 will indeed be a...
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