Strategic Analysis

India and the Fissile Material Cut-Off Treaty: Policy Options

The international community inside and outside the Conference of Disarmament is underscoring the need for concluding a fissile material cut-off treaty (FMCT). The Indian government, for a long period, has...

Rajiv Nayan |
January 2011 |
Strategic Analysis

The US Space Priorities under the Obama Administration

The 21st century may not hold the same strategic logic of the 1960s and 1970s towards discovering outer space. Over a period of time, particularly after the end of the...

Ajey Lele |
January 2011 |
Strategic Analysis

Turkey–Brazil Involvement in Iranian Nuclear Issue: What Is the Big Deal?

The Iranian nuclear stand-off is still a major issue in global politics. From international players like the European Union, the United States and the United Nations, to individual states, almost...

Mehmet Ozkan |
January 2011 |
Strategic Analysis

Changing Face of Turkey

Turkey is blessed with a favourable geography. It straddles Asia and Europe, is surrounded by sea on three sides, controls the only link to the Black Sea, and has moderate...

Rumel Dahiya |
January 2011 |
Strategic Analysis

The Islamist Impulse Haunting Pakistan

It is a truism to say that the elite in Pakistan has used Islam to perpetuate its hold on power ever since the state came into being in 1947. The...

Socio-Economic Underpinning of Jihadism in Pakistan

The rise of the jihadist movement in Pakistan is driven primarily by ideological and religious factors. Decades of indoctrination of a virulent version of radical political Islam has motivated thousands...

Tasks before Indian Foreign Policy

India is contesting elections for the non-permanent membership of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) for a two-year term, 2011–12. If elected, it will return to the Security Council after...

Arvind Gupta |
January 2011 |
Strategic Analysis

Review Essay

Katherine T. Harris (ed.), Geopolitics of Oil , Nova Science Publishers, Hauppauge, New York, 2009, pp. 165, US$69, ISBN 978-1606928103 Peter Maass, Crude World: The Violent Twilight of Oil , Allen Lane, London, pp....

Oil in China: Reserves, Production and Export Potential

The latest addition to the Chinese ‘enigma’ is its oil potential. There have been various accounts, of late, in influential journals and important documents attempting to unravel the mystery surrounding...

European Energy Security: Facing a Future of Increasing Dependency by Peter Truscott

The Economics and Politics of Climate Change by Dieter Helm and Cameron Hepburn (Eds.)

P. K. Gautam |
November 2010 |
Strategic Analysis

New Energy Frontier: The Bay of Bengal Region by Sudhir T. Devare (ed.)

Saurabh |
November 2010 |
Strategic Analysis

Energy Security and Climate Change: Double Challenge for Policy Makers by Artur Gradziuk and Ernest Wyciszkiewicz (eds.)

Pankaj K Jha |
November 2010 |
Strategic Analysis

China and the Energy Equation in Asia: The Determinants of Policy Choice by Jean A. Garrison

First Forum Press, Boulder, CO, 2009, pp. 187, $59.00, ISBN 978-1-935049-05-0

Pakistan’s Energy Security: Challenges and Options

Development prospects and economic growth in Pakistan, like in most other countries, will hinge on securing sustainable energy supplies. The Pakistan government has developed a strategy to enhance its energy...

Sumita Kumar |
November 2010 |
Strategic Analysis

Prospects of India’s Energy Quest in Africa: Insights from Sudan and Nigeria

India has embarked on a policy to balance its need for accessing strategic energy resources from the African continent with Africa's aspirations for greater skills and sustainable development. Sudan has...

Ruchita Beri |
November 2010 |
Strategic Analysis

Russia Abandons the ‘Energy Super-Power’ Idea but Lacks Energy for ‘Modernisation’

The energy sector since the mid-2000s has acquired top priority in Russian state affairs, but since late 2008 it has also become the epicentre of the economic disaster that still...

Pavel K. Baev |
November 2010 |
Strategic Analysis

Strategic Analysis

India and the Fissile Material Cut-Off Treaty: Policy Options

The US Space Priorities under the Obama Administration

Turkey–Brazil Involvement in Iranian Nuclear Issue: What Is the Big Deal?

Changing Face of Turkey

The Islamist Impulse Haunting Pakistan

Socio-Economic Underpinning of Jihadism in Pakistan

Tasks before Indian Foreign Policy

Review Essay

Oil in China: Reserves, Production and Export Potential

European Energy Security: Facing a Future of Increasing Dependency by Peter Truscott

The Economics and Politics of Climate Change by Dieter Helm and Cameron Hepburn (Eds.)

New Energy Frontier: The Bay of Bengal Region by Sudhir T. Devare (ed.)

Energy Security and Climate Change: Double Challenge for Policy Makers by Artur Gradziuk and Ernest Wyciszkiewicz (eds.)

China and the Energy Equation in Asia: The Determinants of Policy Choice by Jean A. Garrison

Pakistan’s Energy Security: Challenges and Options

Prospects of India’s Energy Quest in Africa: Insights from Sudan and Nigeria

Russia Abandons the ‘Energy Super-Power’ Idea but Lacks Energy for ‘Modernisation’

Energy-Related Border Trade Measures: Can They Lead to Trade Wars?

Climate Change: Process and Politics

The Quest for Nuclear Energy in West Asia: Energy Security or Strategic Necessity