Kautilya’s Arthashastra: Restoring its Rightful Place in the Field of International Relations India’s rise in the twenty-first century has resulted in renewed attention on the country, especially in the sphere of strategic thought. This focus has brought into limelight ancient India’s pioneering text on polity called Kautilya’s Arthashastra (KA).Contingent with that is a growing interest in exploring the relevance of KA in the contemporary world. Malay Mishra April 2016 Journal of Defence Studies
Reorganisation of Defence Outlay for 2016–17: A Tepid Affair Beginning 2016–17, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) will present four detailed demands for grant (DDGs)1 instead of eight that it had been presenting to the Lok Sabha2 in the past. It is not that its area of responsibility has shrunk. The reason why the number of demands has come down is that the budgetary outlays earlier spread over eight demands have now been compressed into four. Amit Cowshish April 2016 Journal of Defence Studies
The Clarion Call from the Atolls: Marshall Islands Puts the Nuclear Powers on Notice The pivotal question is whether a judicial intervention, in the absence of any political stimulus, can make a meaningful difference to the disarmament movement. A. Vinod Kumar April 06, 2016 Issue Brief
Modi’s Visit to Saudi Arabia Despite political differences over regional issues, India and Saudi Arabia are intensifying cooperation on issues of mutual interest such as terrorism, piracy, security cooperation, and intelligence sharing. Prasanta Kumar Pradhan April 06, 2016 IDSA Comments
Palestine and US Presidential Candidates None of the candidates from either major party has articulated a clear and unconditionally supportive long-term view in favour of the Palestinian cause. Gautam Sen April 05, 2016 IDSA Comments
What the Standing Committee on Defence can do to improve the state of defence preparedness Rather than continuing to harp on issues like inadequacy of defence outlays, the committee could actually bring about a tangible improvement in the state of defence preparedness by focusing on four specific micro areas. Amit Cowshish April 04, 2016 IDSA Comments
Moving Cyber from the Orbit to the Nucleus of the Nuclear Security Summit Along with physical and system operational security at nuclear power plants, cybersecurity of electronic assets and computer/ICS networks have also become a major concern. Munish Sharma March 30, 2016 IDSA Comments
Defence Procurement Procedure 2016: Rebooting Defence Production and Procurement The best of policies and procedures can come to naught because of indecisiveness in decision-making. There is little in DPP 2016 that addresses the problems which beset decision-making in the MoD. Amit Cowshish March 30, 2016 IDSA Comments
China’s First Anti-Terrorism Law: An Analysis The problem lies not just with the anti-terrorism law’s tough provisions but also the manner of its operation and its implications in terms of tightening political control. Abhishek Pratap Singh March 29, 2016 IDSA Comments
Act East Policy and the CLMV Countries While the economic-cum-strategic thrust towards CLMV countries has to be invigorated, a re-look at the Act East Policy is warranted to give it a more north-east development oriented under-pinning. Gautam Sen March 29, 2016 IDSA Comments
