Strategic Analysis

NPT Review Conference 2010: Issues and Prospects

This article lists the major issues before the 2010 Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference and goes into the politics behind them. It concludes that as long as the treaty remains...

The Current Problems of the NPT: How to Strengthen the Non-Proliferation Regime

With the 'world without nuclear weapons' speech by President Obama and the other moves, indications are good for the next Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference. Progress has to be...

Nuclear Disarmament in a Non-Proliferation Context: A Russian Perspective

The expiry of the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty-1 (START-1) in 2009 and an urgent need to conclude a new US-Russian agreement on strategic nuclear weapons so that the oldest and...

Between Power and Justice: Current Problems and Perspectives of the NPT Regime

The nuclear non-proliferation regime, despite being frequently criticised for an alleged lack of effectiveness, is in fact an amazing success story. The number of states which had conducted nuclear weapons...

Nuclear Disarmament and Proliferation: Two Sides of the Same Coin

Disarmament, especially nuclear disarmament, has long been a dream of world ever since it witnessed the horrors of the effects of its use in the Second World War. Nuclear disarmament...

The Realist Case Against Nuclear Disarmament

Nuclear disarmament is once again fashionable. If rhetoric was sufficient, nuclear disarmament should be easily achievable. But what the rhetoric hides is not only the difficulty of achieving nuclear disarmament,...

The Importance of 2010

In international relations, the more powerful have a way of underplaying history or overemphasising it, depending on how helpful or otherwise it may be in promoting their immediate objectives. It...

Special Editor’s Introduction

The failure of the 2005 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference (RevCon) almost signalled doom for the treaty. The NPT, since it came into force, has always travelled a slippery...

Cyber Wars: A Paradigm Shift from Means to Ends

The last couple of decades have seen a colossal change in terms of the influence that computers can have on the battlefield, with defence pundits claiming it to be the...

The Urumqi Crisis: Effect of China’s Ethno-national Politics

Experts are still searching for a settled answer to the causes and aftermath of the violent unrest between the Han and Uyghurs in China's Xinjiang province that erupted on July...

The Political Factor in Nuclear Retaliation

That a nuclear taboo exists indicates the divide between conventional and nuclear war. It is no wonder then that India – though a nuclear weapons power – deems nuclear weapons...

Ali Ahmed |
March 2010 |
Strategic Analysis

US Interests in Iran: Myths and Realities

The recent events in Iran have raised a number of questions: one interesting question concerns the real character of the US interests in that country. There are obvious strategic US...

A Contrarian Perspective! Challenge and Strategy: Rethinking India’s Foreign Policy by Rajiv Sikri

Caretaking Democracy: Political Process in Bangladesh, 2006–2008 by Sreeradha Datta

A New Perspective in Iranian Politics The New Iranian Leadership: Ahmadinejad, Terrorism, Nuclear Ambition, and the Middle East by Yonah Alexander and Milton Hoenig

India’s Strategic Interests in Southeast Asia and Singapore by See Chak Mun

Talibanisation (Urdu) by Aqueel Yousufzai

The US Approach to the Islamic World in the Post 9/11 Era by Chintamani Mahapatra

Is Pakistan Collapsing? Assumptions, Assertions, and Precautions

Medha Bisht |
January 2010 |
Strategic Analysis

Geopolitical Stipulation of Central Asian Integration

The overall post-Soviet and post-Cold War transformation of the five Central Asian countries is multifaceted and complicated. New geopolitics has penetrated into almost all critically important spheres of post-Soviet transformation....