Titli Basu

The revised National Security Strategy makes a cogent case of Japan’s evolving character as a decisive security actor. The conversation in Tokyo demonstrates a renewed sense of urgency in the...

• Titli Basu |
• 2023 |
• Monograph

Publisher: KW Publishers The Korean Peninsula, which constitutes one of the strategic pivots of Northeast Asian security, has remained a contested theatre for major powers. Denuclearisation of the Peninsula is...

• Titli Basu |
• 2019 |
• Book

Japan is likely to play a decisive role in positioning Northeast India as a powerhouse through improved connectivity, opening up trade corridors and driving better economic integration.

• Titli Basu |
• April 19, 2022 |
• IDSA Comments

As Yoon Suk-yeol takes charge amid global disorder and deep domestic divide, his legacy will be defined by how well he succeeds in effectively walking the talk of positioning Seoul...

• Titli Basu |
• March 14, 2022 |
• IDSA Comments

Prime Minister Kishida Fumio gave a resolute call for pursuing “realism diplomacy for a new era” in his Diet deliberations. How strategically innovative and politically effective will it prove in...

• Titli Basu |
• February 08, 2022 |
• Issue Brief

Japan is manifesting refreshing confidence drawing from its resolve to push the envelope of positive pacifism while determining the strategic balance in the Indo-Pacific.

• Titli Basu |
• January 06, 2022 |
• IDSA Comments

With House of Representatives’ four-year term ending in October, and a general election lined up in Japan, the Liberal Democratic Party needs a leader who demonstrates statesmanship, political vision, boldness...

• Titli Basu |
• September 09, 2021 |
• IDSA Comments

The COVID-19 pandemic has situated the policy conversation on economic security at the centre stage of national security calculus not just in US and Europe but also in Japan. For...

• Titli Basu |
• August 25, 2021 |
• IDSA Comments

Two key elections are approaching in Japan. As Prime Minister Suga seeks public mandate with just one year's report card amidst a pandemic, his political future is contingent on rapid...

• Titli Basu |
• July 01, 2021 |
• IDSA Comments

Abe Shinzo made his mark as an astute statesman in international politics with intellectual bandwidth and a global vision to conceptualise grand strategic constructs such as the Free and Open...

• Titli Basu |
• September 03, 2020 |
• IDSA Comments