Strategic Analysis

Army: The Be-All or End-All of Pakistan Politics?

Witness to three fully fledged coups, Pakistan’s beleaguered political history has been consistently punctured with prolonged stints of military rule. Although a democratic state in principle, it is the episodic...

Jonathan Matusitz, Symbolism in Terrorism: Motivation, Communication, and Behavior, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Maryland, 2014

Symbolism in Terrorism: Motivation, Communication, and Behavior explores an important but under-represented aspect of terrorism: the meanings of both physical and non-physical symbols in terrorism, and how culture, belief systems...

Vanda Felbab-Brown, Aspiration and Ambivalence: Strategies and Realities of Counterinsurgency and State Building in Afghanistan, Brookings Institution Press, Washington, DC

After 13 years of international engagement, political and security scenarios appear to be uncertain in Afghanistan. The unity government formed through a power-sharing agreement between Ashraf Ghani and Abdullah Abdullah...

Rajat Kathuria and Sanjana Joshi (eds.), Forty Years of India–Korea Relations and Looking Ahead, Academic Foundation, New Delhi, 2014

The year 2013 marked the 40th anniversary of the establishment of the diplomatic relationship between India and South Korea. Even though during the Cold War, India–South Korea relations had to...

Alan J. Kuperman, Nuclear Terrorism and Global Nuclear Security: The Challenge of Phasing out Highly Enriched Uranium, Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon, 2013

Alan J. Kuperman’s edited volume Nuclear Terrorism and Global Nuclear Security: The Challenge of Phasing out Highly Enriched Uranium explores the prospects and challenges involved in the process of global...

Difficulties of Regional Cooperation for Afghanistan: An Alternative Interpretation

This article addresses the question of why regional cooperation among Afghanistan’s neighbours has been so difficult despite these countries’ common concerns. To answer this question, Afghanistan is conceptualised as placed...

Russia, Turkey, and Iran: Moving Towards Strategic Synergy in the Middle East?

This article aims to delve into the patterns of convergence and divergence of interests among three key regional players in the Middle East: the Russian Federation, Turkey and Iran.

Hossein Aghaie Joobani , Mostafa Mousavipour |
March 2015 |
Strategic Analysis

Anatomy of Political Atrophy in Thailand

With the take-over of power by the military on May 22, 2014, under General Prayuth Chan-O-Cha, the chief of army, Thailand has gone full circle in coup d’états, from democratic...

India–US Ties: Reviewing the Relationship

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Washington and a summit meeting with President Barack Obama re-energised a relationship that was widely perceived to be moving towards a dead end. During...

Israel–Gaza Crisis: Understanding the War Crimes Debate

The long conflict between Israel and Palestine took a turn for the worse after the kidnapping and killing of three Israeli teenagers in June 2014.

The ‘Sir Creek’ Dispute: Contours, Implications and the Way Ahead

Sir Creek, the 17th and last drainage branch of the river Indus, is a meandering riverine feature approximately 92 km (50 NM) long in the low-lying marshy region of Rann...

Future of India–Nepal Relations: Is China a Factor?

Nepal shares an open border of 1,868 km with five Indian states (Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal and Sikkim) and 1,415 km with Tibet. Under the 1950 Treaty of...

Chronicling the India–China Puzzle

China and India are the emerging economies in Asia and are in close geographical proximity to each other. What makes this relationship complicated is the fact that India and China...

India’s Military Conflicts and Diplomacy: An Inside View of Decision Making by General V.P. Malik

India’s 11th Five Year Defence Plan was completed on March 31, 2012. Throughout its currency, the plan did not receive the approval of the Union Cabinet. The ongoing 12th Defence...

Bargaining on Nuclear Tests: Washington and Its Cold War Deals by Or Rabinowitz

In Bargaining on Nuclear Tests, Rabinowitz examines aspects relating to the US entering into informal deals with Israel, South Africa and Pakistan in order to prevent them from testing nuclear...

The Return of Geopolitics in Europe? Social Mechanisms and Foreign Policy Identity Crises by Stefano Guzzini (ed.)

The end of the Cold War was one of the defining moments in Europe’s geopolitical history. The ‘frozen spatiality’ that dominated the geopolitical space of Europe for half a century...

Does the Elephant Dance? Contemporary Indian Foreign Policy by David M. Malone

In Does the Elephant Dance, David Malone identifies various aspects of Indian history relevant to foreign policy by examining the role of domestic politics and internal and external security challenges....

Uma Nabhi |
March 2015 |
Strategic Analysis

Strategic Analysis

Army: The Be-All or End-All of Pakistan Politics?

Jonathan Matusitz, Symbolism in Terrorism: Motivation, Communication, and Behavior, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Maryland, 2014

Vanda Felbab-Brown, Aspiration and Ambivalence: Strategies and Realities of Counterinsurgency and State Building in Afghanistan, Brookings Institution Press, Washington, DC

Rajat Kathuria and Sanjana Joshi (eds.), Forty Years of India–Korea Relations and Looking Ahead, Academic Foundation, New Delhi, 2014

Alan J. Kuperman, Nuclear Terrorism and Global Nuclear Security: The Challenge of Phasing out Highly Enriched Uranium, Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon, 2013

Difficulties of Regional Cooperation for Afghanistan: An Alternative Interpretation

Russia, Turkey, and Iran: Moving Towards Strategic Synergy in the Middle East?

Anatomy of Political Atrophy in Thailand

India–US Ties: Reviewing the Relationship

Israel–Gaza Crisis: Understanding the War Crimes Debate

The ‘Sir Creek’ Dispute: Contours, Implications and the Way Ahead

Future of India–Nepal Relations: Is China a Factor?

Chronicling the India–China Puzzle

India’s Military Conflicts and Diplomacy: An Inside View of Decision Making by General V.P. Malik

Bargaining on Nuclear Tests: Washington and Its Cold War Deals by Or Rabinowitz

The Return of Geopolitics in Europe? Social Mechanisms and Foreign Policy Identity Crises by Stefano Guzzini (ed.)

Does the Elephant Dance? Contemporary Indian Foreign Policy by David M. Malone

Cyber: Also a Domain of War and Terror

Experiences from the International Rhine Water Management

The Articulated Strategy to Fight the Islamic State: Is It Self-Defeating?