Strategic Analysis

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...

‘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.

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

State Sovereignty to Sovereignty of Individuals: Evolution of R2P

Intervention across borders of other states with the intention of protecting the civilian population from atrocities committed against them is not a new phenomenon. According to Thomas Weiss, 1 the...

The Emerging Principle of the Responsibility to Protect: An Asian Perspective

In the aftermath of the Second World War and the horrors of the Holocaust, during which war crimes were committed on an unprecedented scale, the international community came together to...

The Role of UNHCR and Afghan Refugees in Pakistan

The protection and shelter of millions of Afghans on Pakistan soil for over three decades has amplified the image of UNHCR as a humanitarian institution, which has worked along with...

UN’s Role in South Asia: The Case of Nepal

Nepal has conducted a slew of political experiments since 2006. By inviting the Maoists into the mainstream and collectively deciding to dump the Constitution of 1990, there was hope that...

Scaling the Nuclear Abolition Mountain: Is the United Nations up to the Task?

Strong motivation is the most important factor in getting you to the top. Edmund Hillary (on scaling Mt Everest) Some have compared the goal of a nuclear weapons free world...

Alyn Ware |
November 2011 |
Strategic Analysis

India’s PKOs: A Historic Perspective and the Way Forward

As a founding member, India has been a firm supporter of the principles and purposes of the United Nations. Enshrined as its central aim, the UN Charter states that the...

The Protection of Civilians and the United Nations

The world has changed significantly since the founding of the United Nations and so have its conflicts. During the mid-twentieth century, the pre-eminent challenge for multilateral cooperation was the awesome...

Vijay Nambiar |
November 2011 |
Strategic Analysis

Universality, Multilateralism and Many-Lateralism

Does the changing nature of the international order in the 21st century influence the nature and forms of multilateralism? And if yes, how does it impact the United Nations, an...

B.S. Prakash |
November 2011 |
Strategic Analysis

Reforming the United Nations

Any organisation established in the aftermath of the Second World War obviously cannot fulfil its functions, in a world that has changed so dramatically, without adapting itself to the contemporary...

Prakash Shah |
November 2011 |
Strategic Analysis

Towards a World Community: Thoughts on India and the Idea of United Nations Reform

The title of this article is derived from a famous speech made by Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first prime minister, at the United Nations in December 1956. Over the previous decade,...

Manu Bhagavan |
November 2011 |
Strategic Analysis

India and the United Nations

To paraphrase the mantra of realism—international politics, like all politics, is a struggle for normative ascendancy: the establishment and maintenance of the dominant normative architecture of international order created and...

Ramesh Thakur |
November 2011 |
Strategic Analysis

The Party: The Secret World of China’s Communist Rulers by Richard McGregor Harper Collins, New York, 2010, pp. xvii+302, US$ 27.99, ISBN 9780061708770

Rukmani Gupta |
September 2011 |
Strategic Analysis

India’s International Relations: A Systems Approach

The national security of India rests on two basic and mutually supporting premises. The first, of course, is the internal strength, cohesiveness, and firmness of purpose of the nation. The...

K. Saigal |
September 2011 |
Strategic Analysis