Check the Downslide in India-Bangladesh Relations India should implement its agreements with Bangladesh in a time bound manner, fast track trans-border infrastructural developmental schemes and address the interests of the common people of Bangladesh. Pushpita Das | January 04, 2012 | IDSA Comments
2012: The Changing Geopolitical Environment and Tasks before Indian foreign policy While India’s ability to handle the challenges may be constrained by a slowing economy, it would need to manage them through requisite diplomatic skill and finesse. Arvind Gupta | January 03, 2012 | IDSA Comments
North Korea after Kim Jong-Il: Implications for East Asian Security The demise of the North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il on December 17, 2011 has introduced a new dimension to the security situation in Northeast Asia. The future of East Asian security would largely be shaped by developments that unfold in the Korean peninsula. Rajaram Panda , Victoria Tuke | January 02, 2012 | Issue Brief
Changing Media, Changing China by Susan L. Shirk (ed.) The opening up of the Chinese economy in 1978 was a watershed event in Chinese history. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) decided to open up certain sections of the economy in order to maintain good economic growth. Gunjan Singh | January 2012 | Strategic Analysis
China’s Rising Global Profile: The Great Power Tradition by Harsh V. Pant China's global presence is indisputable, yet for most of the Cold War, China shied away from an international role. However, as China's economic profile has risen, so too has its interest in engaging with regions further afield. Victoria Tuke | January 2012 | Strategic Analysis
Out of the Frame: The Struggle for Academic Freedom in Israel by Ilan Pappe Ilan Pappe's Out of the Frame is a personal narrative about Jewish society in Israel and an intellectual commentary by a historian on the state of Israel. Khinvraj Jangid | January 2012 | Strategic Analysis
Negotiating for India (Lessons of Diplomacy) by Jagat Mehta Jagat Mehta joined the Indian Foreign Service (IFS) in March 1947 before India became independent. In 1976, at the age of 53, he became India's first foreign secretary without an Indian civil service background. He retired in 1979. In the present book, the author discusses six negotiating assignments that he handled during his diplomatic career, pertaining to Bhutan, China, Uganda, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal. The book is a must read for those interested in India's diplomacy and diplomatic practices of the past. Arvind Gupta | January 2012 | Strategic Analysis
Tinderbox: The Past and Future of Pakistan, Harper Collins MJ. Akbar brings his English literature background, writing skills and experience as a journalist with a notable body of work behind him to bear on a topic that has been and remains central to the story of the subcontinent—the past and future of Pakistan. That he prefaces his title with tinderbox reveals his pessimism regarding Pakistan's future. For him, Pakistan can plausibly be characterised as a ‘toxic jelly’. Ali Ahmed | January 2012 | Strategic Analysis
Emerging Space Powers by Brian Harvey, Henk Smid and Theo Pirard Within the ever expanding genre of conflict and security-related literature, there is a less investigated field that pertains to futuristic technologies and the harnessing of science for the purposes of mass destruction and targeted warfare. This is the arena of space, the battlefield of major powers and the arena for power expansion into the extra-terrestrial. Ajey Lele | January 2012 | Strategic Analysis
Nucleus and Nation: Scientists, International Networks and Power in India by Robert S. Anderson Science and the Baconian spirit of scientific rationality have long inspired Indians, many of whom, including the country's first prime minister, regarded the superiority of Western science as the root cause of the subcontinent's subjection to foreign rule. Jayita Sarkar | January 2012 | Strategic Analysis
