Strategic Analysis
Strategic Analysis is the bimonthly journal of the Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (MP-IDSA), New Delhi. It is published by Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, United Kingdom.
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The Journal provides a forum for independent research, analyses, and commentaries on national, regional and international security issues that have policy relevance. It seeks to promote a better understanding of Indian thinking on contemporary national and international themes. The Journal reflects a diversity of views from the strategic and international relations studies community both from within and outside India. The flagship in the IDSA stable of publications, Strategic Analysis began as a monthly journal in April 1977 and served as a medium for publishing commentaries on current events. From early 1987, its contents came to include both research articles as well as commentaries on national and international developments. It was transformed into a quarterly, refereed, journal in 2002. Routledge has been publishing the journal in a bi-monthly format since January 2007.
Scholars and analysts are welcome to submit well-researched papers for publication in this refereed journal.
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Current Issue: May-June 2026
The May–June 2026 Issue brings together scholarly contributions on India’s strategic challenges, regional engagements, ideological currents, and the intersection of geopolitics, security and society. The opening article examines India’s paradoxical strategic dependence on China and its implications for calculated autonomy. Other contributions assess India’s counter-radicalisation strategy, its growing engagement with the Arctic and Russia, and the colonial legacies embodied in Mall Roads.
The Commentaries address contemporary geopolitical and foreign-policy concerns, including Trump’s proposed Board of Peace and India’s strategic choices, the place of the Northeast in the Act East Policy, and the opportunities and challenges of India–Russia engagement in the Arctic.
The Strategic Essays explore two dimensions of South Asian politics and society: the role of mobs and collective frenzy in Nepal’s politics of revenge, and the theological and socio-political evolution of the Deobandi movement.
The Book Reviews examine India–EU relations in the post-Cold War era and proxy warfare and state-wrecking in Afghanistan. The From the Archives section revisits enduring questions in strategic thought and the significance of the Indo-Soviet Treaty for China and the wider regional order.
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