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Xi Jinping has already recognized the inevitable by stressing that China would adjust to the ‘new normal’ of lower growth and, to ensure stability, he has already cracked down on dissent and strengthened media control measures.

• R. S. Kalha
• January 17, 2015
• IDSA Comments

The 2014 Indian elections gave the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) a clear mandate to form the government. In nearly more than a decade of coalition politics, it is perhaps the first time the leading party of the coalition is not dependent on its partners for the government’s functioning. The mandate it received in the election led the BJP to become the single-largest party in the government and the Parliament, for the first time in over thirty years.

• Stuti Banerjee
• January 2015
• Journal of Defence Studies

Libya has ripened into a proxy war between the regional powers. While Qatar, Turkey and Sudan have been supporting the Libya Dawn and General National Congress (GNC) based in Tripoli, Egypt and United Arab Emirates (UAE) are backing the internationally recognised government based in Tobruk and its allied General Khalifa Haftar's Operation Dignity. However, such a proxy war will only destabilise Libya.

• Nachiket Khadkiwala
• January-March 2015
• Africa Trends

On March 28, 2015, Nigerians elected to power a new government after 16 years.
Despite the constant threat of Boko Haram looming, the Nigerian people were
not afraid and came out in large numbers to vote.

• Kuhoo Saxena
• January-March 2015
• Africa Trends

Since 2012, the Gulf of Guinea has emerged as one of the most pirate-infested
waters in the world, posing an urgent security threat to the maritime environment. While the total number of piracy incidents world-wide has fallen in recent years… attacks on the west coast of Africa have witnessed a steady rise, now accounting for nearly a fifth of all attacks.

• Abhijit Singh
• January-March 2015
• Africa Trends

Why is the Pakistan military pushing for Military Courts when the country already has a fairly robust Anti Terrorism Act together with designated Anti Terrorism Courts set up specifically to try terrorism related offences?

• Arun Sahgal
• January 14, 2015
• IDSA Comments

In 22nd April, 1915, during the First World War (WWI), German forces used Chlorine gas for the first time, killing thousands of French troops in the battlefields in Ypres, Belgium.1… Continue reading 100 Years On: Strengthening the Norm against Chemical-Weapons Use

• Kapil Patil
• January-June 2015
• CBW Magazine

Illuminated by the work of strategic classics, Thomas Kane shows that the link between military power and political goals has always been complex and continues to be so. This is because the use of armed force to achieve political objectives (the essence of military strategy) is fraught with serious consequences for nation-states and for the people inhabiting them. Many perceptive minds have tried to unravel these complexities to better understand how and why societies engage in war as well as to guide future strategists to wage them more effectively.

• S. Samuel C. Rajiv
• January 2015
• Journal of Defence Studies

China is India’s largest and most developed neighbour. Following the reform and opening-up policy adopted by the Chinese leadership in 1978, the country has developed at breath-taking speed. Today, the Chinese economy is the second largest in the world (in terms of Gross Domestic Product [GDP]), with a large amount of American treasury bonds in its possession. This economic growth has also extended to the Chinese military and security aspects.

• Gunjan Singh
• January 2015
• Journal of Defence Studies

In shadow of many unprecedented terror attacks, disastrous toll taken by Ebola across the globe and dreadful spread of Swine Flu in India, the 40th anniversary of Biological Weapons Convention… Continue reading Beyond Forty Years of the BWC

• Anshu Joshi
• January-June 2015
• CBW Magazine