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: July-August 2026
The July-August Issue brings together scholarly contributions examining India’s maritime outlook, diplomatic engagements, security imperatives, defence-industrial transformation, and humanitarian responses. The opening article explores the relationship between national character and maritime power in India’s strategic revival. Other contributions examine the Act East Policy as an instrument of national security, media narratives surrounding Rohingya refugees, the transformation of India’s Defence Industrial Base in the emerging G3 order, and India’s balancing of neutrality, diplomacy, and humanitarian assistance during the Korean War.
The Commentary examines Pakistan’s diplomatic and strategic responses to the ongoing war in West Asia, focusing on its pursuit of negotiated de-escalation amid regional conflict and shifting geopolitical pressures.
The Book Reviews consider diverse dimensions of contemporary and historical international affairs, including the evolution of deterrence following Operation Sindoor, the partitions that shaped modern Asia, the development of Japan–ROK security relations during the Cold War, and the political upheavals, insurgencies, and state dynamics of Myanmar.
The From the Archives section revisits enduring questions of strategic and economic thought through discussions on oil policy and Soviet perspectives on the idea of an Asian collective security framework.
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