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Apr 2016

5 Apr 2016

Structure and Resilience in India-Nepal Relations

Rajeev Ranjan Chaturvedy
Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS)

This paper contends that India-Nepal relations will not right themselves until the latter country resolves its domestic political problems, including making its Constitution more inclusive. The text's...

5 Apr 2016

Forging Sri Lanka’s Third Republican Constitution

Ayesha Kalpani Wijayalath
Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS)

This paper focuses on the attempt by Sri Lanka’s Constitutional Assembly to draft the country's Third Republican Constitution, which began on 6 April 2016. The seeming goals of the Assembly are to 1) ...

4 Apr 2016

Russia’s ‘Middle East’: The Escalation of Religious Conflicts in the Northern Caucasus

Maciej Falkowski
Centre for Eastern Studies (OSW)

This commentary contends that the eastern part of the Northern Caucasus region is culturally and socially breaking away from the rest of the Russian Federation. In other words, the area increasingly r...

4 Apr 2016

The New EU-Turkey Agreement: Shortsighted Considerations vs. Long-Term Perspectives

Oded Eran, Gallia Lindenstrauss
Institute for National Security Studies (INSS)

This paper analyzes the agreement reached between Turkey and the European Union in March 2016. More specifically, it looks at the agreement’s content and scope and its 1) practical feasibility, 2) que...

4 Apr 2016

Nepal’s Divisive New Constitution: An Existential Crisis

International Crisis Group
International Crisis Group (ICG)

This report contends that Nepal’s new constitution, which came into effect in September 2015, has actually deepened the country’s ethnic, social and political divides. In particular, the report’s auth...

4 Apr 2016

Revamping India’s Counter-Terrorism Approach

Akanksha Narain, Vikram Rajakumar
S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS)

Given the growing dangers of transnational terrorism in India and South Asia, this commentary argues that it's time for New Delhi to move beyond its Pakistan-centered vision of counterterrorism. Indee...

1 Apr 2016

Crisis Watch Nr 152

International Crisis Group
International Crisis Group (ICG)

This brief takes the measure of current and potential conflicts throughout the globe (as of March 2016). Like previous publications in this series, it assesses whether the overall situation in each co...

Apr 2016

Unity of Mission: Civilian-Military Teams in War and Peace

Jon Gundersen, R Scott Moore, Dennis Craig Barlow, Richard W Stewart, Rufus Phillips, Sandra A Scham, Joseph J Collins, Bernard Carreau, James Soriano, Eric W Hommel, Andrew Shaver, Christopher Holshek, Mark N Popov, J D Bindenagel, Karsten Friis, David C Becker, Lisa Schirch, Andrea Strimling Yodsampa, Joanna Buckley, Ryan Gawn, Omer C Tooley, Mike McCoy, Marcia Byrom Hartwell, Nathan White, Stuart W Bowen, Jr, Jason S. Alexander, James W Derleth, Sloan Mann, James Kunder, Christopher J Lamb, James Douglas Orton
Air Force Research Institute (AFRI)

This book reviews past American involvement where civilian-military units have played a role—from the Philippines to Vietnam—and analyze what worked, what did not work, and why. The authors proceed to...

Apr 2016

Cooperation in South Asia

Manjari Chatterjee Miller, Bharath Gopalaswamy
Atlantic Council

This brief takes stock of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) and how India’s bilateral relations with Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka have affected the organization. Among other points raised...

Apr 2016

Securing Ukraine’s Energy Sector

Anders Åslund
Atlantic Council

This brief examines 1) the challenges Ukraine faces in its energy sector; 2) the prominent place the sector has in the country’s economy; and 3) the energy reforms Kiev pursued in 2015, which were seemingly radical, extensive and yet “sensible.”

Apr 2016

Distract, Deceive, Destroy: Putin at War in Syria

Maksymilian Czuperski, John Herbst, Eliot Higgins, Frederic Hof, Ben Nimmo
Atlantic Council

This report uses open source/social media materials to examine Russia’s campaign in Syria, particularly how the reality on the ground has matched the claims made about it by Moscow. The text's authors...

Apr 2016

Rebuilding Societies: Strategies for Resilience and Recovery in Times of Conflict

Béatrice Pouligny
Atlantic Council

What can the international community do to help violence-torn countries in the Greater Middle East restore their social cohesion and cope with the ongoing refugee crisis? Among other things, Béatrice Pouligny writes it should focus on long-term recovery and deemphasize humanitarian relief.

Apr 2016

After Hub-and-Spoke: US Hegemony in a New Gulf Security Order

Bilal Y Saab
Atlantic Council

This commentary looks at the diminishing role of the US in the Persian Gulf and broader Middle East, and how Washington should adapt to it. As the text's author sees it, the Gulf's traditional securit...

Apr 2016

Ukraine vs Russia and the Kleptocrats

Alan Riley
Atlantic Council

This paper lays out the legal means Ukraine might use to recover assets stolen by the regime of former President Viktor Yanukovych, and to recoup its losses from Russia's 2014 invasion and occupation ...

Apr 2016

An Integrated Approach to Islamic State Recruitment

Charlie Winter
Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)

This paper examines the long-term recruitment processes of the so-called Islamic State (IS). More specifically, the text’s author explores three fundamental components of the recruitment process...

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