Pinaki Bhattacharya

Contributions

40th Anniversary of ‘Reform & Opening Up’: Xi’s Plain-Speak

January 08, 2019 Pinaki Bhattacharya

Cassandras have failed every time they sought to predict end of the Chinese dream-run. They have sought to focus on the nation’s high internal indebtedness; they have talked about how the export-led economy would have crash landing soon; and China�...

Tags: International Relations and Diplomacy, China, Commentary, Xi Jinping’s speech, China economy

Current International Order in Flux: Opportunities and Threats

August 28, 2018 Pinaki Bhattacharya

Early this year, a Rand Corporation researcher wrote: “…. we find specific causal evidence that the elements of the order (International Order) were either a necessary condition or a strongly contributing variable to realising values ranging fro...

Tags: International Relations and Diplomacy, Article, India, China, International order

Deterrence Failure or Lasting Peace, the Korean Game’s Up for Grabs

July 11, 2018 Pinaki Bhattacharya

James Clapper, former director of national intelligence of the Barack Obama administration – otherwise a severe critic of the US President Donald J Trump’s various policies 1- recalled in a 19 May 2018 article for the New York Time...

Tags: International Relations and Diplomacy, Indo-Pacific, Article, Trump-Kim Summit, Denuclearisation of Korea

Containment Again: Will this be the Leitmotif of the ‘Quad’?

January 29, 2018 Pinaki Bhattacharya

Prologue When George F Kennan wrote his ‘Long Telegram’ from the Moscow embassy in February 1946, soon after the death of the three-term president of the USA, Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR), it was early in arriving. The lege...

Tags: International Relations and Diplomacy, Indo-Pacific, Indo-Pacific, Act East, Quad Grouping

India’s Search for Big Power Status

November 17, 2017 Pinaki Bhattacharya

Introduction Indian elite’s desire for big power status grew out of a belief about the Indic civilizational values that spread in the ages of antiquity to what we call North West, South East, East and even West Asia. Most of thi...

Tags: Economic Studies, India’s economic growth, India’s big power goals, reform of domestic systems

Book Published / Book Reviews

‘Strangers No More’, by Sanjay Hazarika, Aleph Book Company, pp. 413, Price Rs 799/-

April 13, 2018 Pinaki Bhattacharya

There are three kinds of media people who travel to the North-East of India: the north-easterners who have had to desert the sylvan vales of their region as economic refugees; career adventure journalists who like to get stellar roles in their chosen...

Tags: North-East Insurgency, National Security and Strategic Studies, Act East, Government, Armed forces, Book Reviews, North-East, Act Fast