Namrata Goswami replies: The term strategic in international politics embodies interest based priorities, which has short, medium and long-term implications for a country. Strategic could include a region (geopolitics) which embodies the connection of power to geography, and the means to forward a particular interest of a country. Strategic could also embody issues which either forwards or threatens the national security of a state, for instance, dispute over water, terrorism, environmental issues, cyber attacks, energy crisis, etc.
Why India is getting Wagah all wrong
The Wagah incident is not going to wake-up Pakistan to the existential threat posed by jihadist terror groups. There is neither going to be any change in its attitude towards using terrorism as an instrument of state policy, nor its inimical attitude towards India.