China’s Defence Budget 2012: An Analysis China’s Defence Budget for 2012 continues to follow anticipated trend lines in keeping with its plan of carrying out Revolution in Military Affairs in a calibrated, coordinated and comprehensive manner. Mandip Singh , Lalit Kumar March 28, 2012 Issue Brief
Gilgit Baltistan: Pakistan’s Growing Travails and India’s Inexplicable Silence A course correction coupled with a proactive policy of nurturing the growing pro-India constituency in Gilgit Baltistan is the need of the hour. Anwesha Ray Chaudhuri March 28, 2012 IDSA Comments
Emerging Trends in Cyber Security The absence of agreed norms of conduct in cyberspace and the scope for conducting a myriad range of malafide activities with limited risk of retribution is leading to both vertical and horizontal proliferation of such activities. Cherian Samuel March 28, 2012 IDSA Comments
Japan’s Nuclear Energy Debate: A Year After the Fukushima Nuclear Crisis The massive earthquake and tsunami which triggered the Fukushima nuclear crisis on March 11, 2011 has shattered the Japanese people’s faith in the safety of nuclear power generation. Shamshad A. Khan March 22, 2012 Issue Brief
Afghanistan: Bad Options, Worse Outcomes The Indian policy establishment needs to start factoring into its security calculus the fallout of a Talibanised Afghanistan and eventually a Talibanised Pakistan. Sushant Sareen March 20, 2012 Issue Brief
Is China Edging Towards Political and Economic Uncertainty? As China heads towards leadership changes after the 18th Party Congress, there is uncertainty both as regards economic policy as well as internal dissidence. R. S. Kalha March 20, 2012 IDSA Comments
India’s Defence Budget 2012-13 An expansionary fiscal policy has been the prime mover for the large increase in the budget of the defence ministry, which would otherwise have come under severe budgetary pressure. Laxman Kumar Behera March 20, 2012 IDSA Comments
India’s Iran Defiance The American inability to provide effective leadership in the Middle East is a sufficient incentive for Indian defiance over unilateral oil sanctions against Iran. Yes, this defiance has difficulties and problems, but it is worth the price to assert India’s independent foreign policy making. P. R. Kumaraswamy March 19, 2012 IDSA Comments
India’s Iran Defiance The American inability to provide effective leadership in the Middle East is a sufficient incentive for Indian defiance over unilateral oil sanctions against Iran. Yes, this defiance has difficulties and problems, but it is worth the price to assert India’s independent foreign policy making. P. R. Kumaraswamy March 19, 2012 IDSA Comments
New Delhi BRICS Summit: New Prospects, But More Challenges? The real challenges for the New Delhi summit are issues that are linked not only with the future of BRICS but also with the conduct and approach of its members towards each other. Jagannath P. Panda March 19, 2012 IDSA Comments
