Strategic Analysis

Geopolitics of Energy in West Asia: Competing Foreign Interests and Prospects for Regional Realignment

The article analyses international politics surrounding the Iranian nuclear crisis, and its implications for stakeholders such as the United States and its western allies as well as for emerging market...

Atul Aneja |
November 2010 |
Strategic Analysis

India–Australia Energy Cooperation: The Road Ahead

Energy ties between India and Australia are centuries old and can be traced back to the days of East India Company of the British–Indian era. From the first commercial export...

Rahul Mishra |
November 2010 |
Strategic Analysis

Is the Future of Energy Geopolitics in Space?

Let's face the facts: we are not going to regulate our way out of either climate change, or a peaking of fossil fuels. Even if we could imagine that individuals...

The Global Quest for Nuclear Energy: Opportunity, Constraints and Prospects

Nuclear energy is undergoing a global renaissance. While nuclear energy has been contributing between 14 and 16 per cent of the total electricity in the world in recent years, most...

Rajiv Nayan |
November 2010 |
Strategic Analysis

The Politics of Nuclear Energy

Nuclear energy, as we know it, was unleashed by nature at Oklo in Gabon, Africa, when uranium formed rings on its mountains billion of years ago. Natural uranium contains at...

India’s Energy Security: Challenges and Opportunities

The eradication of poverty and prosperity depend upon the economic development of a nation which in turn is dependent on an adequate and continuous supply of energy sources. Hence, energy...

Turbulent Future Lies Ahead for Global Energy Markets

What are the major trends that will shape the global energy future in the medium to long term, say up to 2030? The authoritative report of the International Energy Agency...

Arvind Gupta |
November 2010 |
Strategic Analysis

The US–Soviet–China Triangle

Of the members of the America-Russia-China triangle, the Soviet Union is the least enthusiastic about its existence. It is open to question whether it is as obsessed as it is...

Girilal Jain |
September 2010 |
Strategic Analysis

Japan’s National Identity and Foreign Policy: Russia as Japan’s ‘Other’ by Alexander Bukh

How Enemies Become Friends: The Sources of Stable Peace by Charles A. Kupchan

Namrata Goswami |
September 2010 |
Strategic Analysis

Power Realignments in Asia: China, India, and the United States by Alyssa Ayres and C. Raja Mohan

Rahul Mishra |
September 2010 |
Strategic Analysis

Global Giant, Is China Changing the Rules of the Game? by Eva Paus, Penelope B. Prime and John Western (eds.)

Avinash Godbole |
September 2010 |
Strategic Analysis

Socialist China, Capitalist China by Guoguang Wu and Helen Lansdowne (eds.)

Gunjan Singh |
September 2010 |
Strategic Analysis

Jammu and Kashmir, the Cold War and the West by D.N. Panigrahi The Kashmir Dispute: Making Border Irrelevant by P.R. Chari, Hasan Askari Rizvi, Rashid Ahmed Khan and Suba Chandran

Pakistan: The Beginning of the End?

Mary Ann Weaver, Pakistan: Inside the World's Most Frightening Place , Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2010, pp. 292, $16.00, ISBN 978-0374532253 Fatima Bhutto, Songs of Blood and Sword: A Daughter's Memoir ,...

Priyanka Singh |
September 2010 |
Strategic Analysis

Strategies to Tackle Fourth Generation Warfare (4GW): An Aerial Perspective

The changing nature of warfare, as the twentieth century drew to a close, saw the increased proliferation of conflict between non-state actors and the state. Small wars, wars of liberation,...

Climate Change and Environmental Degradation in Tibet: Implications for Environmental Security in South Asia

Both the Chinese government and the Tibetans are in agreement over the impending issues relating to the adverse impact of climate change on Tibet while the India-specific data on glacier...

P. K. Gautam |
September 2010 |
Strategic Analysis

Bangladesh’s Extended Continental Shelf: Navigating the Course with India and Myanmar

The Bay of Bengal is the largest bay off the coast of Bangladesh, India, Myanmar and Sri Lanka. With the exception of Bangladesh all the littoral states have reached agreements...

Sreeradha Datta |
September 2010 |
Strategic Analysis

Tackling Somali Piracy Ashore: Maritime Security and Geopolitics in the Indian Ocean

As high-profile incidents of piracy become more common off Somalia, strategists have taken to urging the US government to send expeditionary forces ashore. The article uses history and Clausewitzian theory...

James R. Holmes |
September 2010 |
Strategic Analysis

India and the Challenge of Terrorism in the Hinterland

Terrorism in the Indian hinterland is the result of a complex set of inter-related factors. The development of a jihad culture in Pakistan during the course of the Afghan conflict...

S. Kalyanaraman |
September 2010 |
Strategic Analysis