Negotiating for India (Lessons of Diplomacy) by Jagat Mehta

Jagat Mehta joined the Indian Foreign Service (IFS) in March 1947 before India became independent. In 1976, at the age of 53, he became India's first foreign secretary without an...

• Arvind Gupta |
• January 2012 |
• Strategic Analysis

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Tinderbox: The Past and Future of Pakistan, Harper Collins

MJ. Akbar brings his English literature background, writing skills and experience as a journalist with a notable body of work behind him to bear on a topic that has been...

• Ali Ahmed |
• January 2012 |
• Strategic Analysis

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Emerging Space Powers by Brian Harvey, Henk Smid and Theo Pirard

Within the ever expanding genre of conflict and security-related literature, there is a less investigated field that pertains to futuristic technologies and the harnessing of science for the purposes of...

• Ajey Lele |
• January 2012 |
• Strategic Analysis

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Nucleus and Nation: Scientists, International Networks and Power in India by Robert S. Anderson

Science and the Baconian spirit of scientific rationality have long inspired Indians, many of whom, including the country's first prime minister, regarded the superiority of Western science as the root...

• Jayita Sarkar |
• January 2012 |
• Strategic Analysis

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A Time Series Forecast of Geopolitical Market Concentration (GMC) Risk: An Analysis of the Crude Oil Diversification Portfolio of India

The oil-rich Middle East region is always seen as a politically volatile region, but it has been the source of crude oil supply to all major consumers worldwide for decades....

• Neeladri Chatterjee |
• January 2012 |
• Strategic Analysis

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The Delicate Balance: Israel and India’s Foreign Policy Practice

India's foreign policy interactions with Israel are marked by a political discreetness which is in contrast to its prominent political engagement with the Palestinians and countries of the Arab world....

• S. Samuel C. Rajiv |
• January 2012 |
• Strategic Analysis

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Velayat-e-Faqih (Supreme Leader) and Iranian Foreign Policy: An Historical Analysis

There has been an increasing assertion of the velayat-e-faqih in Iranian politics in recent years. This has led to tensions between them and the presidential office in Iran. Against this...

• M. Mahtab Alam Rizvi |
• January 2012 |
• Strategic Analysis

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Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN): Cooperation Problems on Human Rights

Though the original focus of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) was primarily economic cooperation, the adoption of the ASEAN charter in November 2007 officially included cooperation on human...

• Nehginpao Kipgen |
• January 2012 |
• Strategic Analysis

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The Emerging Nuclear Security Regime: Challenges Ahead

everal measures are being initiated by the international community to secure sensitive materials. Al Qaeda's open interest in acquiring nuclear weapons and the rise of terrorist activity in nuclear-armed Pakistan...

• Rajiv Nayan |
• January 2012 |
• Strategic Analysis

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Managing India’s Land Borders: Lessons from the US Experience

India has been grappling with the problem of devising an efficient border management strategy that would prevent the entry of dangerous elements while at the same time allowing the legitimate...

• Pushpita Das |
• January 2012 |
• Strategic Analysis

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Bhutan’s Foreign Policy Determinants: An Assessment

This article assesses the shifting preferences of Bhutan towards the foreign policy determinants. Three determinants (national security, political culture and economic engagement) have been studied as they play a significant...

• Medha Bisht |
• January 2012 |
• Strategic Analysis

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Examining China’s Hydro-Behaviour: Peaceful or Assertive?

China is a thirsty country desperately in need of water—a lot of it. In order to meet its water and energy requirements in the densely populated and fertile northern plains,...

• Uttam Kumar Sinha |
• January 2012 |
• Strategic Analysis

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Climate Change and Conflict in South Asia

It is now commonly accepted that small island countries are facing an existential threat because of global warming and the consequent rise in the level of the oceans.

• P. K. Gautam |
• January 2012 |
• Strategic Analysis

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Comment on ‘The Global Nuclear Non-Proliferation Paradigm and India’

Rajiv Nayan's article is both important and interesting. It is important because nuclear weapons pose a threat to humanity and the planet that in magnitude, severity and immediacy is the...

• Ramesh Thakur |
• January 2012 |
• Strategic Analysis

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‘Social Capital’ and its Significance in Reimagining Chindia

Writings on India–China relations in recent years are increasingly seen to be imputing Machiavellian realism to the political and, increasingly, economic sphere of interaction.

• Joe Thomas Karackattu |
• January 2012 |
• Strategic Analysis

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China’s Growing Economic Presence in Ukraine and Belarus

China is gradually increasing its economic and commercial presence in Eastern Europe by signing bilateral agreements with countries that are still in transition, some of which are members of the...

• Richard Rousseau |
• January 2012 |
• Strategic Analysis

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India’s Overseas Assets: Do They Contribute to Energy Security?

When a resource-deficient country becomes industrialised lifestyles become increasingly energy intensive, compelling it to seek resources overseas.

• Shebonti Ray Dadwal |
• January 2012 |
• Strategic Analysis

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India’s Economic Miracle and its Impact on Nepal

For a long time, it was common practice to term the rate of economic growth in India the ‘Hindu rate of growth’—a derogatory term for the low growth rate of...

• Hari Bansh Jha |
• January 2012 |
• Strategic Analysis

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National Interests and International Commitments: the Problem of Enforcing Sanctions

Recently it has been proposed by the United States that economic sanctions be applied by the international community against the Khomeini regime. Economic pressure is sought to be initiated against...

• Neera Chandhoke |
• November 2011 |
• Strategic Analysis

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The Unfinished Global Revolution: The Limits of Nations and the Pursuit of a New Politics by Mark Malloch-Brown

Books about the UN, like the politicians who support it, evidently do better when they make little outward mention of that international organisation. While the cover of most editions of...

• Ellie B. Hearne |
• November 2011 |
• Strategic Analysis

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