Strategic Analysis

Is Energy Security the Main Driver for the West’s Debate on Climate Change?

Though global warming and climate change is a real concern and needs to be addressed, it is concerns over energy security that are driving the West's policy and debate on...

From National Security to Human Security: The Challenge of Winning Peace in Sri Lanka: A Response

From National Security to Human Security: The Challenge of Winning Peace in Sri Lanka: A Critique

M. D. Nalapat |
November 2009 |
Strategic Analysis

From National Security to Human Security: The Challenge of Winning Peace in Sri Lanka

Defence White Paper 2009: New Contours of Australia’s Strategic Thinking

The rapid speed of globalization and increasing economic interdependence has had a direct impact on defence policies and countries are constantly seen fine-tuning their priorities. Walden Bello argues in his...

Pankaj K Jha |
November 2009 |
Strategic Analysis

Japan’s Nuclear Future

In the aftermath of North Korea's second nuclear test and the launch of three short-range missiles on May 25, 2009, followed by the launch of seven ballistic missiles into the...

Reshmi Kazi |
November 2009 |
Strategic Analysis

Islamization versus Talibanization: Is Pakistan Drifting Towards ‘Lebanonization’?

The February 2009 Swat deal between the Taliban and the Pakistan Government, the current Pakistani Army offensive against Taliban strongholds in various areas of Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) and...

A Year after 26/11: Soft Responses of a Reluctant State

Why are the two largest democracies – India and the United States – starkly different when it comes to tackling terrorism? The answer to this perplexing question could lie in...

Climate Summit at Copenhagen: Negotiating the Intractable

Climate change is hugely challenging. But there is an unmistakable straightforwardness to it – reduce emissions to reduce global warming. In many ways, this reflects the sum total of the...

The Nuclear Agenda of the Obama Administration

After eight years of governance by a Republican Administration, the United States elected a Democrat as its president. The Democrat President, Barack Hussein Obama, assumed presidency and appointed several key...

Rajiv Nayan |
September 2009 |
Strategic Analysis

India and Nuclear Testing

In his April 5 speech in Prague, President Barack Obama made a renewed pledge to push the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) as a practical and immediate step to ‘seek...

Reshmi Kazi |
September 2009 |
Strategic Analysis

Climate Change and the Road to Copenhagen: Twisted and Torturous

The Road to Copenhagen in December 2009 has two visible signposts. One that reads, ‘The time for climate change action is now’, the other that warns, ‘The road is bumpy’....

Media and Counter-terrorism: The Indian Experience

Linked to the terrorist goal of intimidation of a targeted population, there is an inherent objective to spread fear and undermine the declared values of the targeted political system by...

Will NATO Stay On in Afghanistan?

A new actor was inducted in the decades-old Afghan conflict when the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) assumed command of the UN-mandated International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in August 2003....

Vishal Chandra |
September 2009 |
Strategic Analysis

Positive Trends in Cross-Strait Relations

Democracy came to Taiwan under the leadership of Chiang Ching-Kuo, which brought an end to almost four decades of one-party dictatorship. Chiang Kai?Shek had harboured the dream of overtaking the...

Gunjan Singh |
September 2009 |
Strategic Analysis

The Next Security Frontier: Regional Instability and the Prospects for Sino-Indian Cooperation

This article explains how growing economic interests have made China and India more prone to various non-traditional security threats in their neighbourhood. It examines whether this evolution has led both...

The Game: A Rational Actor Approach to the US-led Invasion of Iraq, 2003

This article employs game theory to explain the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq, seeking in particular to improve the understanding of why the Iraqi dictator chose a path of action...

Japan’s Approach to Regionalism: Outlook towards the EAS and EAC

One of the most notable attempts by Japan towards fostering regionalism in recent years has been through its active and positive participation in the East Asia Summit (EAS), envisioned to...

Arpita Mathur |
September 2009 |
Strategic Analysis

India’s Participation in the Proliferation Security Initiative: Issues in Perspective

The Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) is emerging as a key anti-proliferation platform with a global reach. However, being a US-promoted initiative with a military dimension, the PSI is yet to...

A. Vinod Kumar |
September 2009 |
Strategic Analysis

The Interface of Strategic and War Fighting Doctrines in the India–Pakistan Context

There has been a shift to a deterrent strategic doctrine with an offensive bias. India's strategic doctrine is thus potentially a compellent one. However, cognizance of the need for limitation...

Ali Ahmed |
September 2009 |
Strategic Analysis