Sri Lanka at the Crossroads: Geopolitical Challenges and National Interests

Sri Lanka has always featured in any discussion on Indian Ocean geopolitics. However, its geopolitical significance has increased manifold after the end of the long-drawn war that saw the defeat...

• Smruti S. Pattanaik |
• September 2019 |
• Strategic Analysis

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New Directions in India’s Foreign Policy: Theory and Praxis

One of the limitations of Indian foreign policy literature is its apathy towards employing novel approaches and methods. Though Indian foreign policy has gone through a dramatic transformation, particularly in...

• Rajeesh Kumar |
• September 2019 |
• Strategic Analysis

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Jordan and the Arab Uprisings: Regime Survival and Politics Beyond the State

Carved by imperial powers, Jordan is a small state surrounded by a large but unstable neighbourhood. Among all the chaos, Jordan offers a semblance of stability sans durability owing to...

• Lakshmi Priya |
• September 2019 |
• Strategic Analysis

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Indian Ocean Perspectives: From Sea Power to Ocean Prosperity

Long before the Atlantic and the Pacific became theatres for commerce and conflict, the Indian Ocean was home to considerable commercial and cultural intercourse. Most recent literature has, however, focused...

• Sanjaya Baru |
• September 2019 |
• Strategic Analysis

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Actions Speak Louder than Words: China’s Consultative Peacekeeping in Africa

Existing concepts (e.g. ‘non-interference’ and ‘pragmatism’) remain too vague to provide explanations for China’s increasingly assertive security policy. To avoid this pitfall, this article adopts a narrower focus on Chinese...

• Ivo Ganchev |
• September 2019 |
• Strategic Analysis

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Theorizing EU-TRACECA Relationship in Eurasian Context

This article contends that the Transport Corridor Europe-Caucasus-Asia (TRACECA) is European Union’s (EU) most visionary trans-regional connectivity project. It theorizes the EU-TRACECA relationship to show that the TRACECA represents different...

• Mushtaq A. Kaw |
• September 2019 |
• Strategic Analysis

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Geopolitics of Western Indian Ocean: Unravelling China’s Multi-dimensional Presence

The Western Indian Ocean (WIO) is now attaining centrestage in the geopolitics of the Indian Ocean. Apart from France and the US, China holds significant interests in the WIO. China’s...

• Sankalp Gurjar |
• September 2019 |
• Strategic Analysis

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Korea’s Para-diplomacy with States in India: An Analysis of the ‘Caravan Events’

In the arena of international relations nation-states have been regarded as the primary actors. However, the constituent units of nation-states have also become active in forging relations with the political...

• Ranjit Kumar Dhawan |
• September 2019 |
• Strategic Analysis

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The Geopolitics of the US-India-Russia Strategic Triangle

The article deals with the state of play in the relationships between the United States, India and Russia. The focus of the article is placed on the geopolitical environment in...

• Aleksei Zakharov |
• September 2019 |
• Strategic Analysis

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Everything Under the Heavens: How the Past Helps Shape China’s Push for Global Power

The reformist and open policy which Beijing adopted in late 1978 has transformed the overall structure of Chinese economy, society as well as its military. It is because of the...

• Gunjan Singh |
• July 2019 |
• Strategic Analysis

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Pakistan Adrift: Navigating Troubled Waters

There is no dearth of literature emphasizing the role of domestic and international factors for the predominance of the military over civilian institutions in Pakistan. Some scholars relate it to...

• Syeda Sumaya Mehdi |
• July 2019 |
• Strategic Analysis

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Why Terrorist Groups Form International Alliances

The menace of terrorism has existed for centuries, but its modern, transnational version has ‘metastasized’ to the extent of threatening global peace and security. In 1975, security expert Brian Jenkins...

• Adil Rasheed |
• July 2019 |
• Strategic Analysis

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Xi Jinping’s China

There are several significant events which preceded China’s constitutional amendment of March 2018 that removed the presidential term limit boosting Xi Jinping’s standing as China’s prospective leader-for-life. Born to a...

• Atmaja Gohain Baruah |
• July 2019 |
• Strategic Analysis

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India-China Relations: 1947–2000 – A Documentary Study (5 Volumes)

Generations of scholars and analysts working on India-China issues will be grateful to Mr. Avtar Singh Bhasin for the extraordinary service he has done to them by bringing into the...

• Jayant Prasad |
• July 2019 |
• Strategic Analysis

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Connectivity is No Panacea for an Unprepared Northeast India

In the apparently lackadaisical environment of North East India, ‘connectivity’ is the new energiser. From Manipur bordering Myanmar, to Assam bordering Bhutan and Bangladesh; everyone is looking to connectivity with...

• Pratim Ranjan Bose |
• July 2019 |
• Strategic Analysis

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Political Indifference and State Complicity: The Travails of Hazaras in Balochistan

Pakistan is a forbidding place for minorities—confessional, sectarian and ideological. Violence, direct and structural and exacted with eerie regularity has ghettoised minority communities and forced them to flee. Among them,...

• Shakoor Ahmad Wani |
• July 2019 |
• Strategic Analysis

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Terrorism Can and Should be Defined. But How?

The debate over what constitutes terrorism spans a wide, diverse and largely a competing body of intellectual strands. In particular, the lack of consensus on the need (or otherwise) for...

• Muhammad Feyyaz |
• July 2019 |
• Strategic Analysis

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Considered Chaos: Revisiting Pakistan’s ‘Strategic Depth’ in Afghanistan

Pakistan’s historical insecurity towards India and the Islamisation of its military raises a curious question of strategy and identity rooted in Pakistan’s political genesis. This article examines the social and...

• Aidan Parkes |
• July 2019 |
• Strategic Analysis

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Ethnicity and Violent Conflicts in Northeast India: Analysing the Trends

This article is a moderate attempt to understand the various ideas associated with ethnicity and ethnic conflicts, and to study the nature, trends and typology of ethnic and insurgent conflicts...

• Deborshi Brahmachari |
• July 2019 |
• Strategic Analysis

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India–Africa Co-Operation on Maritime Security: Need for Deeper Engagement

With approximately 74 million Sq Km and 20per cent of the global ocean, the Indian Ocean is the third largest ocean in the world. Alarmingly, this area has over the...

• Njoki Mboce |
• July 2019 |
• Strategic Analysis

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