Strategic Analysis

India–Bangladesh Relations: An Indian Perspective

The people of India and Bangladesh share close and multi-faceted socio-cultural, religious and linguistic ties spanning centuries. The two countries share the same values of secularism, pluralism and democracy, and...

Explaining Public Policy Choices: A Case Study of the First Nuclear Power Plant in Bangladesh

This article employs the 3-i framework to explore the institutions, ideas, and interests that have shaped the Bangladesh government’s policy choices for implementing the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant, the first...

A.S.M. Ali Ashraf , Md. Shafiqul Islam |
September 2018 |
Strategic Analysis

India’s ‘Act East’ Policy Towards the Two Koreas: Issues and Challenges

The Narendra Modi government after coming to power in May 2014 initiated the ‘Act East’ policy to further enhance New Delhi’s engagement with the countries of the Asia-Pacific region. However,...

Look/Act East Policy, Roads and Market Infrastructure in North-East India

The socio-politico-economic scene in India’s North-east region has guided certain aspects of the country’s domestic and international policy. The Act East Policy (AEP) of the government of India aims to...

Energy Security: How Decision-Making Processes in India’s Energy Bureaucracy Shape India’s Energy Policy

Energy security has evolved to become strategically important for countries, such that the domestic availability of energy resources, coupled with the national energy demand, as well as import and export...

China’s contingencies and globalisation

China’s Contingencies and Globalisation was initially published as a special issue of the Third World Quarterly and consisted of papers presented at the Seventh Annual Global Studies Conference at Shanghai...

Analysing China’s soft power strategy and comparative Indian initiatives

Soft power has become a new currency of power in international relations. It assumes more significance with countries that are sovereign equals but vulnerable to dominance and hegemonic actions by...

Nexus of Global Jihad

The emergence of Al Qaeda on the global stage marked a shift, in more ways than one. Amongst these, it was perhaps the ability to run a corporatised terrorist organisation,...

Kautilya’s Arthashastra: an intellectual portrait: the classical roots of modern politics in India

The generalist reader, as also those interested in indigenous historical knowledge, owes a debt of gratitude to Professor Subrata K. Mitra and Dr. Michael Liebig for bringing out this remarkable...

Pashtun Nationalism in Search of Political Space and the State in Pakistan

Pakistan is undergoing political turmoil once again. Once again an elected prime minister was first removed in July 2017, and then barred from fighting elections for life on April 13,...

Qatar Crisis and the Deepening Regional Faultlines

In June 2017, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain and Egypt cut off diplomatic ties with Qatar. They accused Qatar of supporting extremist and terror groups in the region, having close ties...

Whither Oil Prices? India’s Choices

President Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal has sent oil prices soaring again. Even prior to the May 8, 2018 announcement, after falling to below $30 a...

Transforming Eastern South Asia: Relevance of BIMSTEC

Of late the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) is receiving sincere attention from its member countries as an organisation that has the potential to...

Human Security Approach to Internal Security: Case Study of Reconciliation and Insurgency in Tamenglong, Manipur

Human security as a concept contends that the appropriate referent for peace and security should be the individual instead of the state. This Essay explores whether a human security-centred approach,...

Indian Diaspora in Reunion Island: A Strategic Asset

Wherever Indians have migrated, they have carried with them their culture, which has subsequently served to build multi-layered bridges with their country of origin. The article studies the Indian migration...

Securing Peace? Regime Types and Security Sector Reform in the Patani (Thailand) and Bangsamoro (the Philippines) Peace Processes, 2011–2016

This article examines how regime types shape security sector reforms, that are integral to the peace processes in Thailand’s Patani and the Philippines’ Mindanao.

Strategic Analysis

India–Bangladesh Relations: An Indian Perspective

Explaining Public Policy Choices: A Case Study of the First Nuclear Power Plant in Bangladesh

India’s ‘Act East’ Policy Towards the Two Koreas: Issues and Challenges

Look/Act East Policy, Roads and Market Infrastructure in North-East India

Energy Security: How Decision-Making Processes in India’s Energy Bureaucracy Shape India’s Energy Policy

China’s contingencies and globalisation

Analysing China’s soft power strategy and comparative Indian initiatives

Nexus of Global Jihad

Kautilya’s Arthashastra: an intellectual portrait: the classical roots of modern politics in India

Pashtun Nationalism in Search of Political Space and the State in Pakistan

Qatar Crisis and the Deepening Regional Faultlines

Whither Oil Prices? India’s Choices

Transforming Eastern South Asia: Relevance of BIMSTEC

Human Security Approach to Internal Security: Case Study of Reconciliation and Insurgency in Tamenglong, Manipur

Indian Diaspora in Reunion Island: A Strategic Asset

Securing Peace? Regime Types and Security Sector Reform in the Patani (Thailand) and Bangsamoro (the Philippines) Peace Processes, 2011–2016

AKP, the Arab Spring and the Unravelling of the Turkey ‘Model’

The Evolution of China’s Southern Frontier: Cartographical Encroachments on Indian Territory, 1922–1960

China’s Belt and Road Initiative and India’s Concerns

Indian Nuclear Policy—1964–98 (A Personal Recollection)