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A Critical Review of Defence Procurement Procedure 2011

In the absence of reforms in several areas, DPP-2011 may not be able to achieve its stated objectives of expeditious procurement and greater involvement of domestic industry in defence production.

January 25, 2011

Forging India’s Hard Power in the New Century

The changing security environment calls for re-fashioning the use of hard power, which may have to be managed differently in the future.

January 24, 2011

Time for India to Export Nuclear Power Reactors and Peaceful Nuclear Technologies

Like in the space arena, India has the capability to offer its expertise to other countries in the field of nuclear power and non-nuclear applications.

January 20, 2011

Indonesia in India’s Look East Policy

Political, economic and strategic factors in the post-Cold War period call for expanded co-operation between India and Indonesia.

January 20, 2011

Mosaics of Cultures: Investigating the Role of Cultural Linkages in India-Indonesia Relations

The cultural linkages between India and Indonesia have to be leveraged, as a foreign policy tool, to take India-Indonesia relations to the next level.

January 19, 2011

The Gates Mission: Re-contextualising US alliances in East Asia

Gates has steered Japan and South Korea towards aligning their shared threat perceptions about North Korea and China.

January 18, 2011

Blasphemy Law and the Marginalisation of Pakistan’s Moderate Muslims

By concentrating only on the inequities of the blasphemy law, Pakistani ‘moderates’ and commentators elsewhere are missing the point that the real battle is against radical Islamic thought.

January 17, 2011

Army ‘Transformation’: A ‘Radical’ One?

A shift in strategic thinking over the past two decades has now led to India being poised between the strategic doctrines of offensive and defensive realism.

January 17, 2011

Inter-Korea Dialogue versus Japan-South Korea Military Engagement

North Korea’s offer of a dialogue is unlikely to elicit a positive response from South Korea which instead is militarily drawing closer to Japan to enhance deterrence.

January 14, 2011

NATO and Russia: Move towards Cooperation or Deployments

After Lisbon, the next step for NATO and Russia should be addressing issues relating to deployments of arsenals and arms control.

January 13, 2011

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