Strategic Analysis

The Wires of War: Technology and the Global Struggle for Power, Jacob Helberg, New York, Avid Reader Press

The defining feature of contemporary international politics is the global power struggle taking place at the intersection of technology and geopolitics. This power struggle has given way to a new...

Anubha Gupta |
March-April 2023 |
Strategic Analysis

COVID-19 and Lessons from ‘Triple Lock’: COVID Containment Strategy of Kerala Police

This Article reviews Kerala’s efforts to check the spread of novel coronavirus (COVID-19) without additional expenditure or infrastructure and employing the state police forces. This was remarkable in the face...

India’s Space Policy and Counter-Space Capabilities

As contestation in outer space has evolved into increased militarization since the Cold War era, multiple stakeholders have come to play a significant role in shaping the international regime governing...

Anushka Saxena |
March-April 2023 |
Strategic Analysis

Evolution of Pakistan’s Influence Operations in Jammu & Kashmir: An Analysis

Influence Operations (IOs) are tailored actions to shape perceptions of a targeted audience within the information domain. They pursue political, economic, social, or military outcomes. Their adaptable transparent nature poses...

Tejusvi Shukla |
March-April 2023 |
Strategic Analysis

The International System: Economic and Science and Technological Perspectives

Two phenomenal developments characterized the change in the international system in the years after the Second World War: (i) the spread of Multi-national Corporations (MNCs) and (ii) the rise of...

S. P. Varma |
January-February 2023 |
Strategic Analysis

India in the Emerging World Order

The fact that bipolarity is passing and a new multipolar world structure has emerged, merits a deeper examination. In the political sphere, the interests of the super powers, collaborative or...

P. R. Chari |
January-February 2023 |
Strategic Analysis

The Braided River: A Journey along the Brahmaputra: Samrat Choudhury, HarperCollins India, Noida, 2021

The Brahmaputra is the oldest antecedent and the widest braided river flowing through China, India, and Bangladesh. It is known as Tsangpo in Tibet, Siang in the hills of Arunachal...

Hassan Momin |
January-February 2023 |
Strategic Analysis

Let My People Know: The Incredible Story of Middle East Peace—and What Lies Ahead: Aryeh Lightstone, New York, Encounter Books, 2022

No one better than a representative assigned the task to put the wheels of the Abraham Accords in motion could give a bird’s eye view of the events leading to...

B. Poornima |
January-February 2023 |
Strategic Analysis

Deep State Continuum in Pakistan and Implications for India: Jyoti M. Pathania, New Delhi, KW Publishers, 2022

In a country like Pakistan, where none of its Prime Ministers could ever complete a full five-year term in office, the role of the so-called ‘deep State’ — a term...

Adil Rasheed |
January-February 2023 |
Strategic Analysis

India as Kingmaker: Status Quo or Revisionist Power: Michael O. Slobodchikoff and Aakriti A. Tandon, Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 2022

The two authors of the book under review are academics at separate campuses in the United States, with the first having to his credit previously published books in international and...

Sunil Khatri |
January-February 2023 |
Strategic Analysis

Innovate to Dominate: The Rise of the Chinese Techno-Security State: Tai Ming Cheung, Ithaca and London, Cornell University Press, 2022

The outcome of the 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, held in October 2022, was on predictable lines. It was no surprise that President Xi Jinping was chosen...

Laxman Kumar Behera |
January-February 2023 |
Strategic Analysis

Efficiency in Emergency: A Perception Study of Hierarchical Versus Flat Organizational Structures for Joint Disaster Response in the Bay of Bengal Region

Large-scale disasters have far-reaching impacts that transcend national borders, making a coordinated, “one region-one response” approach essential, particularly in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Bay of Bengal region...

Rajat Mohan Bhatt , Deepali Garge |
January-February 2023 |
Strategic Analysis

Blame Game on Article 370: Patel, Nehru, and Ayyangar

On 5 August 2019, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi took a bold decision and made drastic changes to Article 370 of the Indian Constitution, thus changing the legal status of...

Pavan Kumar |
January-February 2023 |
Strategic Analysis

Economic Rationale for the Proposed Bridge Between India and Sri Lanka: An Analytical Perspective

The Governments of India and Sri Lanka signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to build a bridge across the Palk Strait in July 2002 to join the island nation with...

Emerging Dynamics Between the Chinese State and Big-Tech: The Case of Alibaba

The past few years have been tumultuous for the Chinese State and big-tech relations. The ground reality for the big-tech internet companies in China has transformed from being indulgent and...

Megha Shrivastava |
January-February 2023 |
Strategic Analysis

Iran’s Strategic Behaviour Against ISIS: Religio-Cultural Context of Shrines and Martyrdom

The killing of Qassem Soleimani in 2020 again brought the religio-cultural significance of ‘martyrdom’ into limelight in Iran. He got recognized as the ‘Defender-Martyr of Holy Shrine’ given his role...

Shafat Yousuf , Rafiullah Azmi |
January-February 2023 |
Strategic Analysis

The Comrades and the Mullahs: China, Afghanistan and the New Asian Geopolitics: Ananth Krishnan and Stanly Johny, HarperCollins, Gurugram

The conspicuous US withdrawal from Afghanistan has resulted in a political vacuum, garnering immediate attention of regional and great powers alike. In The Comrades and the Mullahs, presenting Afghanistan’s long...

Muneeb Yousuf |
November 2022 |
Strategic Analysis

The False Promise of Liberal Order: Nostalgia, Delusion and the Rise of Trump: Patrick Porter, Polity Press, Cambridge and Medford

The coming of Donald Trump to power as the 45th President of the United States amounted to a moment of reckoning for the American foreign policy establishment. With his unconventional...

Independent Kashmir: An Incomplete Aspiration: Christopher Snedden, Manchester University Press, Manchester

Independent Kashmir: An Incomplete Aspiration by noted author and expert Christopher Snedden touches upon a raw nerve in the discourse on Kashmir—the aspiration for independence. Snedden describes how and where...

China in India’s Post-Cold War Engagement with Southeast Asia: Chietigj Bajpaee, Routledge, Abingdon, UK

The commemoration of 2022 as the ‘ASEAN-India Year of Friendship’ marks thirty years of the partnership between India and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). Beginning in 1992 with...

Amrita Jash |
November 2022 |
Strategic Analysis