Strategic Analysis

Asia’s Regional Architecture: Alliances and Institutions in the Pacific Century

Andrew Yeo, Stanford University Press, Redwood, CA, 2019, US$ 70.00, (Hardcover) $58.99, ISBN-10: 1503608441

India in South Asia: Challenges and Management

Amit Ranjan (Ed.), Springer, Singapore, 2019, 289 + xxxiii pp., €103.99 (Hardback), ISBN 978-981-13-2019-4

Politics and Government in China

Guoli Liu, ABC-CLIO, California, 2011, 160 + xxxi pp., US$ 35.00 (hardcover), ISBN 978-0-313-35730-5

Strait Rituals: China, Taiwan, and the United States in the Taiwan Strait Crises, 1954-1958

Pang Yang Huei, Hong Kong University Press, Hong Kong, 2019, 336 pp., US$55.00 (hardcover). ISBN 978-988-8208-30-2

Modi and the Reinvention of Indian Foreign Policy

Ian Hall, Bristol University Press, Bristol, UK, 2019, 236 pp., £75.00 (Hardback), ISBN 978-1529204605

Israel’s Mediterranean Gas: Domestic Governance, Economic Impact, and Strategic Implications

Sujata Ashwarya, Israel’s Mediterranean Gas: Domestic Governance, Economic Impact, and Strategic Implications, Routledge, London and New York, 2019, 312 pp., Rs.1,495 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-367-37503-4

India’s Eastward Engagement: From Antiquity to Act East Policy

COVID-19: Projecting the National Security Dimensions of Pandemics

National security—in its traditional sense—is associated with the protection of the territorial integrity and sovereignty of a state, as well as its critical interests abroad. However, the lethal nature of...

COVID-19: A Testing Time for UAE–India Relations? A Perspective from Abu Dhabi

Responses against COVID-19 have become one of the defining aspects of the modern-day state system that is testing the organic capacity of nations in particular and the international community in...

Impact of COVID-19 on the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

The global onslaught of COVID-19 pandemic continues as uncertainty swirls around the global economy signalling a slowdown. It is still uncertain how long it will take to arrest the spread...

SAARC COVID-19 Fund: Calibrating a Regional Response to the Pandemic

The convening of a video conference of the SAARC leaders by the Indian Prime Minister on March 15 to initiate a regional response to the COVID-19 pandemic came as a...

Georgia 2008: Conflict Dynamics in the Cyber Domain

The article focuses on the Five-Day War, which took place between Georgia and the Russian Federation in August 2008. This war provides the first example of use of cyber-attacks during...

Deepening Critical Infrastructures in Northeast India: People’s Perspective and Policy Implications

Northeast India continues to be an industrially underdeveloped and infrastructurally deficient region. The poor condition of infrastructure in the region demands serious attention. Studies in the region reveal that a...

Revisiting the Discourse on Strategic Culture: An Assessment of the Conceptual Debates

Strategic culture as a concept is generally understood as pertaining to the influence of the cultural dimension in national strategy. The concept rose to prominence due to the inability of...

Ladakh: India’s Gateway to Central Asia

Ladakh is one of the largest administrative units in India, in terms of its territory. Due to its contiguity with Xinjiang and Tibet and its close proximity to Central Asia,...

The Bangladesh Question and World Politics

The gruesome events in East Bengal since March 25, 1971 and their repercussions on India easily constitute the most appalling experience of the society of nations since the end of...

The Three Pillars of Radicalization: Needs, Narratives, and Networks

Scholars from various academic disciplines have attempted to explain the nature and drivers of the 21st century sui generis phenomenon of radicalization. However, it is rare to find a single...

Pakistan: The Balochistan Conundrum

It is not often that Pakistan is talked of in terms of the diversities it embodies. It is, perhaps, its descent into extremism and violence that has overshadowed every other...

Gambling with Violence: State Outsourcing of War in Pakistan and India

Yelena Biberman offers a new framework for understanding why and how states ‘outsource’ war to local non-state actors despite the risks of forfeiting the state’s monopoly over violence. Specifically, she...

China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) and Questions on Pakistan’s Economic Stability

This article begins with a discussion on how the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is viewed differently by different political parties as well as by the civilian and military establishments in...