Strategic Analysis

In the Footsteps of the OPEC: Trends in Collective Bargaining over Natural Resources

The new World Economic Order, advocated at the end of the Sixth Special Session of the UN General Assembly through a Declaration in Action Programme, and later by the regular session of the Assembly in the form of the Charter of Economic Rights and Duties, poses quite a few problems. Its legal validity, its political wisdom, its economic content and a host of other issues have been questioned. The two instruments contain provocative provisions, like the right to nationalise foreign property.

New Nepal: The Fault Lines by Nishchal Nath Pandey

Sage, New Delhi, 2010, ISBN 9788132103165

Peddling Peril: How the Secret Nuclear Trade Arms America’s Enemies by David Albright

Free Press, 2010, 254 pp., ISBN-10 14165-4931-5

Reshmi Kazi |
January 2011 |
Strategic Analysis

India and China: The Battle between Hard Power and Soft Power by Prem Shankar Jha

Penguin Viking, New York, 2010, 398 pp., Rs. 599, ISBN

R N Das |
January 2011 |
Strategic Analysis

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

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

In the Valley of Mist: Kashmir’s Long War: One Family’s Extraordinary Story by Justine Hardy

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)

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.