Pakistan’s Tactical Nuclear Warheads and India’s Nuclear Doctrine The advocacy by Pakistani analysts of the Indian disinclination to retaliate massively in response to their use of TNWs on their own soil indicates either a flawed analysis or a bluff that the Indian armed forces would be inclined to call. Gurmeet Kanwal September 21, 2016 Issue Brief
Trinidad and Tobago’s Air Arms: Inefficient Duplication of Effort For Trinidad and Tobago, having two Air Arms has led to duplication of effort that has rendered existing assets less effective than they otherwise might have been. A faulty procurement process has also led to an incompatibility of both aircraft and avionics. Sanjay Badri-Maharaj September 21, 2016 IDSA Comments
Can Prachanda use his India visit to resolve the Madhes issue at home? Prime Minister Puspa Kamal Dahal has a whole pile of problems lying unsolved at home. And he has only nine months, as set by his coalition partners, to deliver on his promises. Umesh K. Bhattarai September 16, 2016 IDSA Comments
Deciphering Pakistan’s Kashmir Lexicon India has failed the Valley by not countering the false narratives of Pakistan’s false lexicon on Kashmir. Prabha Rao September 08, 2016 Issue Brief
An Assessment of President Obama’s Foreign Policy If the history of the world is the world’s court of justice, history will rate Obama, the 44th President of the United States, among the top ten of the holders of that high office. K. P. Fabian September 08, 2016 IDSA Comments
The race for leadership in supercomputers – does India stand a chance? India must move away from the perspective which it has allowed to dominate, namely, that the application of supercomputers is more important than supercomputer technologies themselves. Prabha Rao September 07, 2016 Issue Brief
The Draft Maharashtra Protection of Internal Security Act 2016: A Review While the need for re-evaluating internal security holistically is undeniable, it may be appropriate to deal with this matter in the national context. Gautam Sen September 07, 2016 IDSA Comments
Latin America Post the Impeachment of Dilma Rouseff The salience of the impact of the Rouseff-related developments lie in the fact that there is a degree of similarity in the economic policies of the erstwhile Rouseff Government and its counterparts in some of the other Latin American countries… Gautam Sen September 06, 2016 IDSA Comments
Ethnicity and Security Forces in Guyana and Trinidad & Tobago The perception of discrimination and the attendant reluctance of Indo-Trinidadians and Indo-Guyanese to enlist in proportionate numbers gives rise to a circle of claims of discrimination that never augur well for good race relations. Sanjay Badri-Maharaj September 05, 2016 IDSA Comments
Bringing India-Nepal ties back on track The Prachanda regime’s success in bringing India-Nepal ties back on track will greatly depend on his domestic performance; that is where the goodwill which can give him political heft lies. Rajesh Singh September 05, 2016 IDSA Comments
