Category: War and Conflict

• Sino-US Relations in the 21st Century

  The Sino-US relationship is without doubt the most important bilateral relationship in the world. It is also one of the most complex and difficult ones.

  Jabin T. Jacob

  6 September 2011

  Foreign Policy, War and Conflict

  Asia-Pacific, Chinese foreign policy, responsible stakeholder, United States

• Chinese National Security and International Relations

  How do China’s national security imperatives influence its international relations? And how do the various actors and dynamics in the Chinese decision-making process affect China’s international relations?

  Jabin T. Jacob

  5 September 2011

  Foreign Policy, War and Conflict

  Chinese foreign policy, Chinese MoFA, Chinese provinces, Communist Party of China (CPC), PLA, Taiwan, Tibet, Xinjiang

• Guns, Blankets and Bird Flu

  The India-Myanmar border regions form a forgotten frontier in the Indian and global imagination but violence, trade and transnational challenges such as drug-trafficking and the spread of diseases have kept both a regional identity as well as specific community identities alive.

  Jabin T. Jacob

  2 September 2011

  Borders, Comparative Politics, Foreign Policy, Sub-nationalism, War and Conflict

  disease spread, ethnic insurgencies, illegal trade, Myanmar, Northeast India, regional integration

• Another Sino-Japanese spat

  If economic interdependence is insufficient for China to compromise on territorial issues with its smaller neighbours, the latter are unlikely to behave any differently.

  Jabin T. Jacob

  2 September 2011

  Borders, Foreign Policy, War and Conflict

  ARF, Chinese Internet, Chinese MoFA, energy security, exclusive economic zone, Japan, MSDF, PLA, rare earths, Senkaku/Diaoyutai, WTO

• China-Pakistan Relations: Reinterpreting the Nexus

  “The Afghans they hate us, The Indians wanna bring us to our knees How long will it be Lord, till we piss off the Chinese I got the blues” Saad Haroon

  Jabin T. Jacob

  1 September 2011

  Borders, Foreign Policy, Sub-nationalism, War and Conflict

  9/11, Afghanistan, energy security, nuclear proliferation, Pakistan, religious radicalism, Sino-Indian relations, Sino-Pak relations, Sino-Pak trade, strategic partnership, United States, West Asia, Xinjiang

• China-India Relations: Strategic Engagement and Challenges

  It is necessary for India and China to avoid misperception and misreading of each other’s strategic intentions. But how?

  Jabin T. Jacob

  1 September 2011

  Borders, Foreign Policy, War and Conflict

  Sino-Indian relations

• The States in Indian Foreign Policy

  This presentation focuses on one particular aspect of centre-province relations in India – the nature of influence that Indian provinces (or States) exercise on national foreign policymaking.

  Jabin T. Jacob

  31 August 2011

  Borders, Comparative Politics, Foreign Policy, Political Parties, Sub-nationalism, War and Conflict

  Africa, ASEAN, centre-province relations, Chinese provinces, economic reforms, federalism, Gujarat, Indian states, Kashmir, Kerala, Northeast India, Pakistan, Punjab, Sri Lanka, Tamil Nadu

• The EU, China and India

  How can the European Union intervene in a positive and creative manner to ensure that a ‘new cold war’ does not develop between the two Asian giants?

  Jabin T. Jacob

  30 August 2011

  Comparative Politics, Foreign Policy, War and Conflict

  Asia-Europe Meeting, climate change, HADR, PLA, PLAN, scientific cooperation, Sino-Indian relations, terrorism, UN peacekeeping, United States

• Disaster Relief Politics

  In Asia, as important as the aid itself is, is who provides it and how. There is clearly politics – foreign policy interests and domestic factors of both donor and recipient nations – involved in humanitarian relief and assistance.

  Jabin T. Jacob

  28 August 2011

  Foreign Policy, War and Conflict

  Bangladesh, Cyclone Nargis 2008, Cyclone Sidr 2007, discrimination, Myanmar, Pakistan earthquake 2005, PLA, right-wing organizations, Sichuan earthquake 2008, Sri Lanka, tsunami 2004