Changing Central Asia

M. K. BHADRAKUMAR states that Central Asia is poised for a new dawn with China's increased economic engagement, convergence of Sino-Russian interests and increased U.S. efforts to draw the Central Asian states towards AfPak. In an article in The Hindu, "India and the Central Asian Dawn", he laments that the current strategic discourses on China were caught in a time warp and Sino-India ties had increasingly acquired a regional dimension and calls for a change in India's current thinking on Central Asia.

Pipelines and Energy

Gal Luft, director at the Institute for the Analysis of Global Security (IAGS) cautions the U.S. to curb its enthusiasm towards the Nabucco pipeline arguing that it served as Iran’s economic lifeline and would imperil American interests although it reduced European dependence on Russian gas. In an article for the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University, “How to beat Iran’s pipeline strategy”, he also calls on the U.S. to cooperate with India on the development of a thorium nuclear fuel cycle.