Tag: energy security

• China in South Asia: Influence and Feedback

  Presentation made at the British High Commission, New Delhi, 22 August 2013

  Jabin T. Jacob

  8 November 2013

  Comparative Politics, Foreign Policy

  Bangladesh, BCIM Forum, Beijing Model, boundary dispute, Brahmaputra river, Chinese foreign policy, Communist Party of China (CPC), democracy, energy security, environment, ethnic insurgencies, global order, Indian foreign policy, labour issues, military modernization, Myanmar, Sino-Pak relations, Western Development Strategy

• Institutionalizing the BCIM: The Next Steps

  What institutions does BCIM need at the Track-1 level for achieving greater integration and coordination of mutually beneficial activities across borders? Is transnational governance is the ultimate goal? Will sub-national governments in the 4 countries be actively involved?

  Jabin T. Jacob

  5 March 2012

  Borders, Comparative Politics, Foreign Policy, Sub-nationalism

  Asian regionalism, Bangladesh, BCIM Forum, border trade, education, energy security, environment, health, institutionalization, international trade, labour migration, Myanmar, regional cooperation, transnational linkages

• 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

• Not India’s Ocean: Perceptions of Chinese Presence in the Indian Ocean

  It is important to start with that oft-repeated statement made by a Chinese admiral, “We can no longer accept the Indian Ocean as an ocean of the Indians.” Apart from a sense of nationalist hurt that Indian reactions to the statement portrayed and continue to portray, the statement succeeded also in evoking a realization hitherto…

  Jabin T. Jacob

  27 August 2011

  Foreign Policy, War and Conflict

  energy security, Gwadar, Indian Navy, MOOTW, Myanmar, Pakistan, PLAN, Sino-Indian relations, SLOCs, string of pearls, United States