Strategic Analysis

The Evolving Politics of Taliban Reintegration and Reconciliation in Afghanistan

The subject assumes significance in view of the politics evolving around the idea of negotiating peace, especially with the Taliban, as the West plans to withdraw bulk of their troops...

Vishal Chandra |
September 2011 |
Strategic Analysis

India and Iran’s Nuclear Issue: The Three Policy Determinants

Three broad policy determinants can be discerned in Indian reactions to the Iranian nuclear issue. These include: ‘strategic autonomy’ as it relates to Indian foreign policy decision making

China’s ‘Military Diplomacy’: Investigating PLA’s Participation in UN Peacekeeping Operations

The central focus of this article is to understand the evolution of the Chinese People's Liberation Army's engagement with UN peacekeeping operations in the light of China's military diplomacy. The...

China’s ‘Aggressive’ Territorial Claim on India’s Arunachal Pradesh: A Response to Changing Power Dynamics in Asia

The Chinese territorial claim on the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh has negatively affected India–China relations for many decades now. In recent years, China has become visibly aggressive with regard...

Namrata Goswami |
September 2011 |
Strategic Analysis

Prospects for India–US Cyber Security Cooperation

Cyber security cooperation should be a natural area of cooperation between India and the United States for a number of reasons; both countries are democracies, with similar values and economic...

Cherian Samuel |
September 2011 |
Strategic Analysis

Can the South Asian Gas Pipeline Dilemma be Resolved through a Legal Regime?

South Asian countries, and particularly India, are hydrocarbon-deficient, and given the pace of economic growth in many of these nations, all of them need huge energy resources to sustain their...

Challenges for the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC)

Chemical science has a direct relationship with human life. In order to celebrate the value of chemistry, the United Nations (UN) has declared 2011 as the ‘International Year of Chemistry’....

Ajey Lele |
September 2011 |
Strategic Analysis

India–Russia strategic partnership: Challenges and Prospects by Nivedita Das Kundu (ed.), Academic Foundation, New Delhi, 2010, pp. 167, Rs. 595., ISBN 9788171888276.

The Genesis of South Asian Nuclear Deterrence: Pakistan’s Perspective by Naeem Salik Oxford University Press, Karachi, 2009, pp. 324, Rs. 495. ISBN 9780195477160

The Persistent Advocate and the Use of Force The Impact of the United States upon the Jus ad Bellum in the Post-Cold War Era by Christian Henderson Ashgate, UK, 2010, pp. 211, £65. ISBN 9781409401735

Popular Culture, Geopolitics, and Identity by Jason Dittmer Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., New York, 2010, pp. xxii?+?181, ISBN 9780742556348

Indian Nuclear Deterrence: Its Evolution, Development and Implications for South Asian Security by Zafar Iqbal Cheema Oxford University Press, Karachi, 2010, pp. 609, Rs 995. ISBN 9780195979039

Whither Asia? International Relations in Asia by David Shambaugh and Michael Yahuda (eds), Pentagon Press, London, 2010, pp. 383. ISBN 9780742556959.

Strategic Analysis

The Evolving Politics of Taliban Reintegration and Reconciliation in Afghanistan

India and Iran’s Nuclear Issue: The Three Policy Determinants

China’s ‘Military Diplomacy’: Investigating PLA’s Participation in UN Peacekeeping Operations

China’s ‘Aggressive’ Territorial Claim on India’s Arunachal Pradesh: A Response to Changing Power Dynamics in Asia

Prospects for India–US Cyber Security Cooperation

Can the South Asian Gas Pipeline Dilemma be Resolved through a Legal Regime?

Challenges for the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC)

India–Bangladesh Land Border: A Flawed Inheritance and a Problematic Future

Rajapaksa’s Sri Lanka: Time to Move Beyond Complacency

IDSA in Retrospect

K. Subrahmanyam and the IDSA

Some Thoughts about K. Subrahmanyam

K. Subrahmanyam and Indian Strategic Thought

On Subrahmanyam

India–Russia strategic partnership: Challenges and Prospects by Nivedita Das Kundu (ed.), Academic Foundation, New Delhi, 2010, pp. 167, Rs. 595., ISBN 9788171888276.

The Genesis of South Asian Nuclear Deterrence: Pakistan’s Perspective by Naeem Salik Oxford University Press, Karachi, 2009, pp. 324, Rs. 495. ISBN 9780195477160

The Persistent Advocate and the Use of Force The Impact of the United States upon the Jus ad Bellum in the Post-Cold War Era by Christian Henderson Ashgate, UK, 2010, pp. 211, £65. ISBN 9781409401735

Popular Culture, Geopolitics, and Identity by Jason Dittmer Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., New York, 2010, pp. xxii?+?181, ISBN 9780742556348

Indian Nuclear Deterrence: Its Evolution, Development and Implications for South Asian Security by Zafar Iqbal Cheema Oxford University Press, Karachi, 2010, pp. 609, Rs 995. ISBN 9780195979039

Whither Asia? International Relations in Asia by David Shambaugh and Michael Yahuda (eds), Pentagon Press, London, 2010, pp. 383. ISBN 9780742556959.