Strategic Analysis

Nuclear Terrorism: Assessing the Danger

This article attempts to make a realistic assessment of the danger of nuclear terrorism. While acknowledging the catastrophic consequences of an act of terrorism employing either an improvised nuclear device...

The Fissile Materials Working Group: A Case Study of How a Civil Society Group Can Impact Fissile Material Policy

Security experts the world over agree that nuclear terrorism is one of the greatest threats to international peace and security in the 21st century. Since the end of the Cold...

Nuclear Security, the Summit Process and India

India has been dealing with terrorism for several decades, and is therefore constructively involved in all genuine exercises for countering the menace. As terror groups are expected to use weapons...

The Technological Dimension of Nuclear Security

The issue of nuclear security has several dimensions including security of nuclear materials and facilities, export controls, security of technologies and development of technologies that are proliferation-resistant. Each of these...

The Arab Uprising: The Unfinished Revolutions of the New Middle East by Marc Lynch

Tunisia’s Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali was the first to fall to the thundering protests in that country in early 2010. Within a month, Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak was forced out of...

China’s Nightmare, America’s Dream: India as the Next Global Power by William H. Avery

The rise of Asia, particularly China and India, is a significant development in the early 21st century. In the last three decades, China has transformed itself from an agricultural economy...

Confronting the Bomb: Pakistani and Indian Scientists Speak Out by Pervez Hoodbhoy (ed.)

Eminent nuclear physicist Pervez Hoodbhoy and his co-authors in the seminal volume Confronting the Bomb: Pakistani and Indian Scientists Speak Out have defied the age-old perspective that nuclear weapons are the ultimate...

Reshmi Kazi |
January 2014 |
Strategic Analysis

Never Forget National Humiliation: Historical Memory in Chinese Politics and Foreign Relations by Zheng Wang

Scholars studying China are quite familiar with themes like national humiliation, nationalism as a new source of regime legitimacy vis-à-vis communism, and China’s anti-US and anti-Japan polemic. Zheng Wang’s book...

Religion and Politics in South Asia by Ali Riaz (ed.)

In the post-colonial era, religion has emerged as a powerful political force in South Asia. The key question that emerges is: how and why did religion become this potent political...

Pakistan on the Brink: The Future of Pakistan, Afghanistan and the West by Ahmad Rashid

There is immense strategic interest in the Af-Pak region. The US has spent over half a trillion dollars in Afghanistan and perhaps billions in Pakistan. NATO has spent money and...

Naser Timory |
January 2014 |
Strategic Analysis

Lee Kuan Yew: The Grandmaster’s Insights on China, the United States and the World by Graham Allison and Robert D. Blackwill with Ali Wyne

Without doubt, Lee Kuan Yew has been among the most distinguished statesmen to emerge from the ruins of post-colonial Asia. He orchestrated and led the transformation of Singapore from a...

Through the Gender Lens: A Feminist Analysis of ‘Security’

Nicole Detraz, International Security and Gender (Dimensions of Security), Polity, UK, 2012, 168 pp., $21.39 (trade paperback), ISBN 978-0745651170

Digital Public Diplomacy and a Strategic Narrative for India

States articulate their identity and foreign policy interests in the international system, seeking to influence the perceptions of others and to create an environment in which their goals and efficacy...

Malaysia–India Defence Cooperation: Need for a Paradigm Shift before Strategic Partnership

The objective of this article is to discuss defence cooperation between Malaysia and India in the post-Cold War era (1991–2012), mainly from Malaysia’s perspective. The article is divided into four...

India’s South Asia Dilemma and Regional Cooperation: Relevance of Cultural Diplomacy

This article highlights the current relevance of cultural diplomacy not as a panacea for the problems in India’s relations with its South Asian neighbours but as a way of dealing...

Rabindra Sen |
January 2014 |
Strategic Analysis

Strategic Analysis

Nuclear Terrorism: Assessing the Danger

The Fissile Materials Working Group: A Case Study of How a Civil Society Group Can Impact Fissile Material Policy

Nuclear Security, the Summit Process and India

The Technological Dimension of Nuclear Security

The Arab Uprising: The Unfinished Revolutions of the New Middle East by Marc Lynch

China’s Nightmare, America’s Dream: India as the Next Global Power by William H. Avery

Confronting the Bomb: Pakistani and Indian Scientists Speak Out by Pervez Hoodbhoy (ed.)

Never Forget National Humiliation: Historical Memory in Chinese Politics and Foreign Relations by Zheng Wang

Religion and Politics in South Asia by Ali Riaz (ed.)

Pakistan on the Brink: The Future of Pakistan, Afghanistan and the West by Ahmad Rashid

Lee Kuan Yew: The Grandmaster’s Insights on China, the United States and the World by Graham Allison and Robert D. Blackwill with Ali Wyne

Through the Gender Lens: A Feminist Analysis of ‘Security’

Digital Public Diplomacy and a Strategic Narrative for India

Malaysia–India Defence Cooperation: Need for a Paradigm Shift before Strategic Partnership

India’s South Asia Dilemma and Regional Cooperation: Relevance of Cultural Diplomacy

Factoring the RCEP and the TPP: China, India and the Politics of Regional Integration

Federalising India’s Neighbourhood Policy: Making the States Stakeholders

Beyond the Indo-Naga Talks: Some Reflections

Dalai Lama Central to Resolution of the Tibet Issue

Elections in Pakistan: Perspectives from Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir