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Pakistan’s 2013 general election marked the country’s first civilian transfer of power following the completion of an elected government’s full term. However, questions linger over the country’s democratic durability as next year’s election will occur against a challenging backdrop.
New Delhi must be prepared for a major discontinuity in the way America and Russia deal with each other and Eurasia.
Despite India’s insistence that it shares a political bond with China, the global interests of the two countries are actually very different.
Prime Minister Modi hopes the wider South Asian diaspora will contribute to India’s economic development, act as a bridge to the nations that host them, and help promote broader international goals.
Prime Minister Modi has pitched demonetization as a fight against corruption in India. But to truly free politics from black money, the government must take concrete steps to reform political finance.
India’s elevation as chair of a group designed to kick-start talks on lethal autonomous weapon systems gives it the unique opportunity to take a leadership role in global debates on the issue.
In India, distrust of government and social cleavages encourage voters to support those who bend the rules to defend their communities. Similar conditions in the United States contributed to Trump’s election.
Lower castes have been hurt by the crisis of India’s agriculture, causing a flow of migrants to towns and cities. This shift requires the creation of eight million jobs a year, which India has not supplied.
Until now, India’s strategy has been to globalize at its own pace and resist Western pressures for sweeping reform. If the West turns against globalization, New Delhi will need a lot of new thinking on post-reform economic strategy.
Tibet is at the very heart of the Sino-Indian disputation over territorial sovereignty and much else over the last six decades.