Strategic Analysis

Cyber war: the next threat to national security and what to do about it? by Richard A. Clarke and Robert K. Knake

War, in the age of the ‘Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA)’ has changed its nature and tactics. Use of sophisticated systems has made it difficult to penetrate defences. Cyber war,...

Role of Historical Legacy in India’s Relations with Territories to its East

The ability of history to intrude into the present has often been underestimated. Nowhere is this more evident than in India’s relations with territories to its immediate east. Colonial rule...

Harnessing Opportunities and Overcoming Challenges: Maritime Security in the Indian Ocean Region

Based on the work of the Maritime Security Working Group within the Strategic Studies Network (SSN), this report provides both diagnosis and prescriptions regarding security threats in the Indian Ocean...

Boko Haram: The Multifaceted Story of Terror and Cultism

Nigeria is currently going through a very delicate phase. The kidnapping of more than 275 Chibok schoolgirls by the terrorist organisation Boko Haram shocked not only Nigeria but the international...

Boko Haram: Insurgency and the War against Terrorism in the Lake Chad Region

The Boko Haram insurgency has emerged as one of the greatest threats to human security in Africa, and the Lake Chad region in particular. This is a region with a...

Bringing Fear to the Perpetrators: Humanitarian Cyber Operations as Evidence Gathering and Deterrence

Humanitarian cyber operations would allow democratic states to utilise cyber operations as a humanitarian intervention to capture information and create a foundation for decision making for collective international action supported...

Interpreting China’s Third Plenum

Xi Jinping’s new reformist approach of 2013 is a close reflection of Deng Xiaoping’s prescription of 1978. The Chinese political leadership is tightening its political grip and loosening economic control....

Keshab Chandra Ratha , Sushanta Kumar Mahapatra |
July 2015 |
Strategic Analysis

Challenges to the Revision of the Nepal–India 1950 Peace and Friendship Treaty

The contemporary strategic and political environment has gone through tremendous changes in comparison to the context in which the 1950 treaty was signed. The Indian prime minister Narendra Modi’s August...

Nuclear Security in Asia: Problems and Challenges

The importance of nuclear security in Asia needs to be focused upon in view of the emerging challenges of nuclear proliferation, growing nuclear arsenals, expanding civilian nuclear energy programmes, weak...

South China Sea: India’s Maritime Gateway to the Pacific

This article looks at India’s interests and strategy in the South China Sea (SCS). First, it highlights India’s maritime interests and discusses the relevance of the SCS to these interests....

National Security: Concept, Measurement and Management

The concept of national security has often been taken to merely connote the preservation of sovereignty, territorial integrity and internal stability with the focus on the coercive power of the...

Diverging Australian and Indian Views on the Indo-Pacific

Australia has a vital interest in preventing the Indian Ocean Region from becoming an arena of great power rivalry, including between India and China. The 2013 Defence White Paper clearly...

Melissa H. Conley Tyler , Aakriti Bhutoria |
May 2015 |
Strategic Analysis

Sandeep Chakravorty , Sumit Chaturvedi |
May 2015 |
Strategic Analysis

Strategic Analysis

Cyber war: the next threat to national security and what to do about it? by Richard A. Clarke and Robert K. Knake

Role of Historical Legacy in India’s Relations with Territories to its East

Harnessing Opportunities and Overcoming Challenges: Maritime Security in the Indian Ocean Region

Boko Haram: The Multifaceted Story of Terror and Cultism

Boko Haram: Insurgency and the War against Terrorism in the Lake Chad Region

Bringing Fear to the Perpetrators: Humanitarian Cyber Operations as Evidence Gathering and Deterrence

Interpreting China’s Third Plenum

Challenges to the Revision of the Nepal–India 1950 Peace and Friendship Treaty

Nuclear Security in Asia: Problems and Challenges

South China Sea: India’s Maritime Gateway to the Pacific

National Security: Concept, Measurement and Management

Diverging Australian and Indian Views on the Indo-Pacific

Impossible Devolution? The Failure of Power-Sharing Attempts in Sri Lanka

Can Taiwan Talk ‘Political’ with the Mainland?

An Assessment of the Chinese Dream: 2015

Saudi Arabia: King Salman Faces the 21st Century

Future of India–China Boundary: Leadership Holds the Key?

China’s ‘Maritime Bases’ in the IOR: A Chronicle of Dominance Foretold

China’s Asia Strategy under President Xi Jinping

Visas: How They Work—An India–Bangladesh Case Study