Issue Brief

The Jeju naval base is intended to serve two objectives: to protect the country from possible missile attacks from North Korea and to allow the United States to station Aegis class destroyers.

• Rajaram Panda |
• September 01, 2011 |
• Issue Brief

This Issue Brief reviews the progress or lack thereof on the front of modernization of police forces under the Modernisation of Police Forces (MPF) Scheme, with specific reference to the Mumbai Police.

• Amit Kumar |
• August 30, 2011 |
• Issue Brief

This issue brief delves into the pragmatic motivations undergirding India and China’s “will to the sea”, before examining on a more conceptual level how New Delhi and Beijing have drawn on the old in order to buttress the new, most notably through the crafting of two maritime narratives.

• Iskander Rehman |
• July 11, 2011 |
• Issue Brief

The appointment of the Naresh Chandra Committee is an opportunity for India’s strategic community to engage in a long-overdue debate on our approach to national security

• V. P. Malik , Anit Mukherjee |
• July 11, 2011 |
• Issue Brief

Issue Brief tries to establish an understanding of local perspectives on the Chinese claim. It also details the challenges that have been afflicting the state over the years namely related to governance, rivers, and border security....

• Namrata Goswami |
• July 11, 2011 |
• Issue Brief

As a new nation emerges in Africa, India needs to shape its policy to deal with impending changes in Sudan. India’s deep engagement with Sudan suggests that its role in post referendum Sudan will be important

• Ruchita Beri |
• July 08, 2011 |
• Issue Brief

Unless the NSG is willing to modify its guidelines to allow ENR transfers to India, India should not seek admission to NSG membeship even if offered.

• G. Balachandran |
• July 05, 2011 |
• Issue Brief

This Brief elaborates the principles that need to be followed to evolve a criteria-based approach to enable India to join the NSG as a full member and contribute materially and substantially to a future non-proliferation regime that will be acceptable to the international community as a whole.

• G. Balachandran |
• June 16, 2011 |
• Issue Brief

Faulty promotion policies and the unsatisfactory professional education of the officer corps deprive Indian military officers of the opportunity to master strategy and develop capacities for handling high level issues.

• Rumel Dahiya |
• June 13, 2011 |
• Issue Brief

Acknowledging the fact that military victory over the LTTE is not the final solution, Mahinda Rajapaksa has promised to restore the rights and dignity of the Tamils through a political solution.

• Gulbin Sultana |
• June 10, 2011 |
• Issue Brief

North Korea is unlikely to abandon its nuclear weapon development programme which has deterrence value especially considering that it does not trust China to come to its rescue in case of a threat to its security.

• Rajaram Panda |
• June 01, 2011 |
• Issue Brief

The death of Osama bin laden, is not the end of al Qaeda. It may disable it, but will not kill ‘al Qaeda the idea or movement’. We need to remember that bin Laden and al Qaeda articulated a political grievance which will not disappear with his elimination. The 'war of ideas' is still on.

• Shruti Pandalai |
• May 03, 2011 |
• Issue Brief

This Brief outlines the practical and ideational role that BRICS can play as a grouping, in reforming the global financial system and in the norm-setting processes in world politics. The Brief also discusses some challenges BRICS countries are facing to realise their goals in the short to medium term.

• Joe Thomas Karackattu |
• May 03, 2011 |
• Issue Brief

Since there was no clarity about the end goals of this operation, it would have been difficult for the Indian government to communicate and justify its support for this resolution to its domestic constituency.

• Sanjeev Kumar Shrivastav |
• April 13, 2011 |
• Issue Brief

The ongoing protests against undemocratic regimes in West Asia and North Africa have sent shockwaves throughout the region. This Brief analyses the protests in the Arab world and their implications for the region and India.

• Prasanta Kumar Pradhan |
• March 31, 2011 |
• Issue Brief

While erstwhile authoritarianism and absolutist rule may no longer be possible, it would be naïve to expect that the Middle East will undergo a metamorphosis.

• P. R. Kumaraswamy |
• March 30, 2011 |
• Issue Brief

Internal threats to national security have assumed centre-stage in the debates on Indian security. They have a pan-Indian presence and are no longer confined to India’s north and north-eastern frontiers.

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• March 17, 2011 |
• Issue Brief

While the Arab Revolution might or might not prove as seminal as the French or the Russian, it has changed the geopolitics significantly and irrevocably.

• K. P. Fabian |
• March 10, 2011 |
• Issue Brief

The United States faces a budget crisis of proportions with no precedent in its recent history. The country’s economic dominance since the end of World War II has supported a military posture with global reach and influence.

• Peter Maher |
• February 24, 2011 |
• Issue Brief

The temporary hope of peace returning to the Korean peninsula following North Korea’s peace overtures dissipated no sooner than it started when North Korean negotiators walked out of the meeting room at the DMZ in Panmunjam.

• Rajaram Panda |
• February 14, 2011 |
• Issue Brief