Soft Power: China’s Emerging Strategy in International Politics by Mingjiang Li (ed.) Lexington Books, Plymouth, 2009, 275 pp., US$80, ISBN 978-0-7391-3377-4 Rukmani Gupta January 2011 Strategic Analysis
India and Counterinsurgency: Lessons Learned by Sumit Ganguly and David P. Fidler (eds.) Routledge, Oxon, 2009, 256 pp., $120.00, ISBN 978-0-415-49103-7 Kapil Patil January 2011 Strategic Analysis
Breaking Through – The Birth of China’s Opening-Up Policy by Li Lanqing Oxford University Press and Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, Oxford and New York, 2009, ISBN 978-0-19-801692-2 Kalyani Unkule January 2011 Strategic Analysis
In the Valley of Mist: Kashmir’s Long War: One Family’s Extraordinary Story by Justine Hardy Gurinder Singh January 2011 Strategic Analysis
The United States in South Asia: An Unending Quest for Stability Seth G. Jones, In the Graveyard of Empires: America's War in Afghanistan, W.W. Norton & Company, New York, 2010, pp. 430, ISBN 978-0-393-33851-5 (paperback Forrest E. Morgan, C. Christine Fair, Keith Crane, Christopher S. Chivvis, Samir Puri, and Michael Spirtas, Can United States Secure an Insecure State , RAND Corporation, US, 2010, pp. 232, ISBN 978-0-8330-4807-3 (paperback) Priyanka Singh January 2011 Strategic Analysis
Response to Respondents There is no cause for dismay over a growing sense of marginalisation of India in regional and international forums on the Afghan issue. Similarly, the resurgence of the Taliban and increasing Pakistani influence in Afghanistan should be seen as a temporary phenomenon. Sushant Sareen is right in arguing that the ‘turn of events’ in the ‘not so distant future’ could open up possibilities of India playing a larger role in Afghanistan. Vishal Chandra January 2011 Strategic Analysis
India and the Afghan Maze: A Nimble and Supple Policy Only Way Out There is really never any endgame in Afghanistan and what might appear to be one today will, in all likelihood, be nothing more than the closing of one chapter and the opening of another. Therefore Chandra's contention that the war in Afghanistan has a long way to go is incontestable, and it is in this context that India's options will always remain alive. Sushant Sareen January 2011 Strategic Analysis
Response to Dr. Vishal Chandra’s Article ‘India in the Afghan Maze’ Responding to Dr. Vishal Chandra's article ‘India in the Afghan Maze: Search for Options’ allows me the opportunity to update and improve upon the suggestions I had made in my commentary ‘Af-Pak and India's Options in Afghanistan’ (Strategic Analysis, 34(5), 2010, pp. 683–689). Mahendra Ved January 2011 Strategic Analysis
India’s Options within the Afghan Maze Although General David Petraeus emphatically stated that the United States of America is not in Afghanistan to lose the war, the fact remains that the decade-long war on terror against the Taliban and shadow boxing the al Qaida has lost its aim and purpose, reaching levels of absurdity at a cost of over a trillion dollars and yet the US will not win the war! Every effort of General Petraeus to win will only escalate the conflict and that is not in the best interests of Afghanistan and the US. B. R. Muthu Kumar January 2011 Strategic Analysis
In the Wake of the US Withdrawal As the United States seeks to draw down its security forces in Afghanistan, India faces a serious policy conundrum. It has made, as Vishal Chandra argues, significant developmental and infrastructural investments in the country. If the US military withdrawal is significant, even if not precipitate, it may leave the field open to a reconstitution of the Taliban within the country. Such an outcome will dramatically enhance Pakistani influence in the country and thereby place India's very substantial commitments to date at risk. Sumit Ganguly January 2011 Strategic Analysis
