Strategic Analysis

The recent events in Iran have raised a number of questions: one interesting question concerns the real character of the US interests in that country. There are obvious strategic US interests like monitoring and early warning stations, oil interests, military interests, including sales of huge quantities of modern weaponry, and so on.

• Sreedhar , John Cavanagh
• January 2010 |
• Strategic Analysis
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• Ashok K. Behuria
• January 2010 |
• Strategic Analysis
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Specialists on Chinese studies are divided on whether or not China is moving towards democracy. Many scholars forcefully argue that China by now is fairly democratic. While conforming to these views, this article prompts the thesis that China is already somewhat democratic today and is becoming more so. This is argued by highlighting the trends and the progressive character in its emerging regime politics. On the surface, these progressive trends and character may be seen as rhetorical and more as a communist proposition to legitimize its ruling.

• Jagannath P. Panda
• January 2010 |
• Strategic Analysis
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• Shantanu Chakrabarti
• January 2010 |
• Strategic Analysis
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In February 2009, the Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruiser U.S.S. Port Royal ran aground about a half mile south of the Honolulu airport. The Navy's investigation found that the ship's navigational gear was broken and that the ship's fathometer wasn't functioning. In simple terms the bridge didn't know where the ship was. The investigation subsequently discovered that the commanding officer was exhausted, sleep-deprived, and that sailors who were nominally assigned to stand watch against such incidents were assigned elsewhere in the ship to cover manning shortages.

• Seth Cropsey
• January 2010 |
• Strategic Analysis
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• M. Mahtab Alam Rizvi
• January 2010 |
• Strategic Analysis
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• Arvind Gupta , Ashok K. Behuria
• January 2010 |
• Strategic Analysis
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• Sandeep Anand
• January 2010 |
• Strategic Analysis
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President George W. Bush was the first US president to propose a two-state solution to the Palestinian–Israeli conflict when he addressed the UN General Assembly in November 2001. His administration also launched the road-map to help achieve this goal in April 2003 in collaboration with the United Nations, the European Union, and Russia, also known as the quartet.

• Rathnam Indurthy
• January 2010 |
• Strategic Analysis
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• Shamshad A. Khan
• January 2010 |
• Strategic Analysis
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