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Showing posts with label ORF. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ORF. Show all posts
Monday, 13 June 2016
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What ‘Excessive Maritime Claims’ Is US Challenging India Over? (Manoj Joshi, ORF)
On April 19, the US Department of Defence put out a two-page document detailing what it said were the “excessive maritime claims” of certain countries. The purpose of this annual exercise, which has been around for the past decade and more, is to list the countries as well as mark the fact that the US Navy has challenged the claims, in some instances multiple times, in a particular calendar year.
http://www.eurasiareview.com/03052016-what-excessive-maritime-claims-is-us-challenging-india-over-analysis/
http://www.eurasiareview.com/03052016-what-excessive-maritime-claims-is-us-challenging-india-over-analysis/
Friday, 4 March 2016
Water infrastructure and connectivity: Growth and SDGs in Asia (Sonali Mittra, Rohan D'Souza, ORF)
This paper examines current water management ideologies and practices and the impact they create on strategies for pan-Asian connectivity. It suggests that 'business-as-usual' management principles and the harnessing of transboundary rivers tend to undermine efforts at achieving economic and ecological sustainability goals, as well as meeting long-term development challenges. The Mekong and Ganga basin regions, in particular, suffer from inadequate attention to their socio-ecological complexity; institutional arrangements are absent to take on the larger task of managing the region's water resources through meaningful infrastructural development. The paper recommends that infrastructural plans for pan-Asian connectivity be linked to efforts that are, simultaneously, aimed at realising Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Local communities and their livelihood strategies, moreover, should be drawn into efforts at knowledge creation for addressing climate-change adaptation challenges.
http://www.orfonline.org/research/water-infrastructure-and-connectivity-growth-and-sdgs-in-asia/
http://www.orfonline.org/research/water-infrastructure-and-connectivity-growth-and-sdgs-in-asia/
Climate-induced disasters: Regional initiatives for collective response (Arupjyoti Saikia, ORF)
The SAARC nations are home to more than a billion-and-a-quarter population,distributed over a rich landscape of mountains, coasts, forests, deltaic plains, and deserts. Over time, the rapid growth of the region's population thrived on the widespread distribution of rich and fertile lands and ample water and other resources. The large and complex river systems around the region has also meant that, historically, water has been a key marker of the landscape,along with the majestic Himalayas and the generous monsoons. While monsoon predominates as a crucial condition of water availability, there are widespread variations in the monsoon patterns across the region. As climatic changes increasingly threaten huge swathes of the globe, including this region, it is necessary to maintain a stable political dialogue to ensure cooperation. This paper argues that member states must stand together to reduce the region's vulnerability and mitigate the ill effects of climate-induced disasters.
http://www.orfonline.org/research/climate-induced-disasters-regional-initiatives-for-collective-response/
http://www.orfonline.org/research/climate-induced-disasters-regional-initiatives-for-collective-response/
Collective action on South Asia’s ‘wicked problems’ (Dipak Gyawali, ORF)
The problems of water, energy, climate change, and urbanisation, are all intertwined; they are, also, all 'wicked'. There is little consensus on how to effectively navigate these problems, let alone, how to solve them. Of these, water is key: the threat of climatic changes is primarily manifested in water, its dwindling supply, and the conflicts that may potentially arise. It also encompasses so-called 'toad's eye' concerns of the grassroots, often informal economy, as well as the 'eagle's eye' perspectives of national and global managers. In South Asia, regional cooperation in managing water has not been successful for various reasons. While there are nascent regional instruments in the form of SAARC chartered institutions, they are weak and in need of greater push if they are to be of any use to furthering regional integration.
http://www.orfonline.org/research/collective-action-on-south-asias-wicked-problems/
http://www.orfonline.org/research/collective-action-on-south-asias-wicked-problems/
India and the South China Sea dispute (Abhijit Singh, ORF)
The South China Sea (SCS) is witnessing a dramatic rise in maritime tensions. Last week, China landed two fighter jets on Woody island – a subset of the Paracel group of islands – just days after the PLA placed surface-to-air missiles at the same location. With a range of about 200 kilometers, the new HQ-9 missiles can target aircraft approaching China’s claimed spaces in the South China Sea. To add to regional worries, the latest satellite images of several of the Spratly Islands showed probable radar infrastructure, suggesting that the PLA may already have established full radar coverage over the SCS.
http://www.orfonline.org/research/india-and-the-south-china-sea-dispute/
http://www.orfonline.org/research/india-and-the-south-china-sea-dispute/
The Cyber Command: Upgrading India’s national security architecture (Arun Mohan Sukumarcol, R.K. Sharma, ORF)
India is increasingly vulnerable to cyber attacks that range from intrusions that affect the integrity of data to large-scale attacks aimed at bringing down critical infrastructure. This vulnerability is largely a function of India's digital economy, which is a net information exporter that relies heavily on devices manufactured outside the country. Another complicating factor is the density of India's cyberspace, which does not permit a uniform legal or technical threshold for data protection laws. This paper proposes a security architecture that can improve inter- agency coordination, help respond to cyber attacks, and prevent them in many circumstances. The primary goals of the National Cyber Security Agency a Cyber Command that brings together the Armed Forces and civilian agencies are twofold: improve the country's resilience and defence systems against serious electronic attacks, while enhancing its own intrusive, interceptive and exploitative capabilities.
http://www.orfonline.org/research/the-cyber-command-upgrading-indias-national-security-architecture/
http://www.orfonline.org/research/the-cyber-command-upgrading-indias-national-security-architecture/
Rethinking water-climate cooperation in South Asia (Gareth Price, ORF)
Water is a finite resource but demand for it is not. As water supply dwindles to its limit, potential conflicts are brewing between countries that share transboundary freshwater resources. Is the world equipped with the means to prevent the eruption of such conflicts? In South Asia, transboundary water management systems have remained weak, leaving coriparians extremely vulnerable to conflict. A sound management system has now become imperative, as the very real threats of climatic changes further exacerbate the problem of dwindling water supply. South Asian co-riparians must reimagine their water relations, encourage cross-boundary cooperation, and aim to mitigate the ill impacts of what has historically been a haphazard water management system.
http://www.orfonline.org/research/rethinking-water-climate-cooperation-in-south-asia/
http://www.orfonline.org/research/rethinking-water-climate-cooperation-in-south-asia/
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