Strategic Analysis

The Political Factor in Nuclear Retaliation

That a nuclear taboo exists indicates the divide between conventional and nuclear war. It is no wonder then that India – though a nuclear weapons power – deems nuclear weapons not for military use but for deterrence purposes. These are, therefore, taken as political weapons. Seeking to deter use of nuclear weapons against India or its forces anywhere, India's nuclear doctrine promises ‘massive’ punitive retaliatory strike in case of nuclear use by its enemy. This is evidence that the Indian leadership is cognizant of the special status of nuclear weapons.

Ali Ahmed |
March 2010 |
Strategic Analysis

US Interests in Iran: Myths and Realities

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.

A Contrarian Perspective! Challenge and Strategy: Rethinking India’s Foreign Policy by Rajiv Sikri

Caretaking Democracy: Political Process in Bangladesh, 2006–2008 by Sreeradha Datta

A New Perspective in Iranian Politics The New Iranian Leadership: Ahmadinejad, Terrorism, Nuclear Ambition, and the Middle East by Yonah Alexander and Milton Hoenig

India’s Strategic Interests in Southeast Asia and Singapore by See Chak Mun

Talibanisation (Urdu) by Aqueel Yousufzai

The US Approach to the Islamic World in the Post 9/11 Era by Chintamani Mahapatra

Is Pakistan Collapsing? Assumptions, Assertions, and Precautions

Medha Bisht |
January 2010 |
Strategic Analysis

Geopolitical Stipulation of Central Asian Integration

The overall post-Soviet and post-Cold War transformation of the five Central Asian countries is multifaceted and complicated. New geopolitics has penetrated into almost all critically important spheres of post-Soviet transformation. Geopolitics even influences spheres such as national self-identification, which is traditionally regarded as having nothing to do with geopolitics. That is why one can assume that geopolitics stipulates regional integration as well.