“China Plus One”: Supply Chain Resilience Initiative and Beijing in Indo-Pacific The drawbacks of over-reliance on China as a single manufacturing source has led to countries adopting “China Plus One” strategy to diversify supply networks. Whether Supply Chain Resilience Initiative by India-Japan-Australia can assist in partial decoupling from China is yet to be seen. Jagannath P. Panda | July 26, 2021 | Issue Brief
The Dark Web and Regulatory Challenges The dark web has turned into a hot bed of illegal transactions, posing a threat to the cyberspace across multiple dimensions. Debopama Bhattacharya | July 23, 2021 | Issue Brief
Who is Responsible for Defence of India? Defence of India is a multi-dimensional responsibility involving coordination with not only organisations within MoD, but also several external departments and agencies. Irrespective of whether the subject of defence of India is assigned to DoD or DMA, it is the defence minister who is responsible for the subjects allocated to the ministry. Amit Cowshish | July 22, 2021 | IDSA Comments
Prime Minister’s Outreach to Political Leaders of Jammu and Kashmir Taking positive measures to address the core issues of misgovernance and corruption and ensuring fair and rightful distribution of resources will help in the revival of the political process in Jammu and Kashmir. Nazir Ahmad Mir | July 22, 2021 | IDSA Comments
The U.S. Intelligence Community and the Roots of the Pandemic Virus Abstract The U.S. Intelligence Community (IC) report regarding the roots of the SARS-CoV-2, as reflected in a published unclassified summary (August 2021), was excessively inconclusive, and has hence been followed,… Continue reading The U.S. Intelligence Community and the Roots of the Pandemic Virus Dany Shoham , Yossi Kuperwasser | July-December 2021 | CBW Magazine
Influence of Vedanta on Indian Strategic Culture While discussing the roots of strategic culture of any country, it is important to understand its core belief systems, enshrined in its spiritual, philosophical, political and military treatises that may have played a fundamental role in shaping its collective psyche and by extension, its patterns of perception and behaviour. Adil Rasheed | July-September 2021 | Journal of Defence Studies
A Proposal for Biosecurity Framework in India Abstract Perpetual biological threats in India presented in different forms, and of various intensities call for a comprehensive biosecurity framework. Rapidly advancing scientific developments in synthetic biology have altered the… Continue reading A Proposal for Biosecurity Framework in India Mrinmayee Bhushan | July-December 2021 | CBW Magazine
Cultural Explanation of Statecraft: The Polities and Policies of Asoka and Akbar Constructivism argues that the behaviour of actors in international politics is shaped by factors like identity, norms, rules, etc. Though it has been well argued that these factors shape and sometimes regulate the behaviours of political actors, not much has been written about the formation of such norms and how the identity of a political actor becomes operational through them. Nazir Ahmad Mir | July-September 2021 | Journal of Defence Studies
A Comparison of Kamandaka’s Nitisara and Kautilya’s Arthashastra: Statecraft, Diplomacy and Warfare Kamandaka’s Nitisara was composed after the classic and the only surviving root text of Kautilya’s Arthashastra. Both the texts are important milestones in Indic heritage and tradition of political science. They share many fundamental and enduring similarities in concepts and vocabulary. There are also dissimilarities and some unique features such as Kamandaka’s strategy of Upeksha (neglect, diplomatic indifference) reused and revived during the Indian freedom struggle. P. K. Gautam | July-September 2021 | Journal of Defence Studies
A ‘Regional’ Intervention in the Debate on India’s Strategic Culture: Maratha Statecraft in Agyapatra Existing scholarship on India’s strategic culture pronounces on it either based almost entirely on India’s post-independence strategic behaviour with some references to the pre-independence period or on select historical experiences and texts. For a large part of its history, however, the Indian sub-continent has been under ‘regional’ rulers, ranging from small to very large kingdoms. There are traditions that emanate from them that are as much part of the Indian strategic culture as the pan-Indian phenomena. Arpita Anant | July-September 2021 | Journal of Defence Studies
