Strategic Analysis

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

Leadership, Factional Politics and China’s Civil-Military Dynamics: Post-17th Party Congress Patterns

This article highlights the changing dynamics of relations between the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the People's Liberation Army under the current leadership. While the military in China still remains...

PLA Integration into the Nepal Army: Challenges and Prospects

Integration of Maoist combatants into the Nepal Army (NA) has become a contentious issue. Although the stakeholders have agreed on the integration process, they are yet to arrive at a...

Nihar R. Nayak |
September 2009 |
Strategic Analysis

A Critical Evaluation of the Union Government’s Response to the Maoist Challenge

The Union Government took notice of the current phase of the Naxalite challenge with concern, for the first time, in 1998. Since then, it has been playing a coordinating role...

P. V. Ramana |
September 2009 |
Strategic Analysis

Identity and Conflict: Perspectives from the Kashmir Valley

Based on interviews with a cross-section of people from the Kashmir Valley including aspirants of self-determination, academics, media persons, members of the civil society, and security forces this article argues...

Arpita Anant |
September 2009 |
Strategic Analysis

Abolishing Nuclear Weapons by George Perkovich and James M. Acton

Satish Chandra |
September 2009 |
Strategic Analysis

Terrorism: Patterns of Internationalisation by Jaideep Saikia and Ekaterina Stepanova (eds.)

Ali Ahmed |
September 2009 |
Strategic Analysis

Shared Histories India in the Making of Singapore by Asad-ul Iqbal Latif

Arvind Gupta |
September 2009 |
Strategic Analysis

Contemporary Debates in Indian Foreign and Security Policy: India Negotiates Its Rise in the International System

Ali Ahmed |
September 2009 |
Strategic Analysis

Unravelling the Mosaic: Spatial Aspects of Ethnicity in Nepal

Arvind Gupta |
September 2009 |
Strategic Analysis

The Man from Pakistan: The True Story of the World’s Most Dangerous Nuclear Smuggler

Reshmi Kazi |
September 2009 |
Strategic Analysis

Outlook for the Seventies: Strategic and Technological

So far the Chinese have carried out ten nuclear tests which include one underground test, one test of a nuclear-tipped missile and three thermo-nuclear tests. In other words, the Chinese...

K. Subrahmanyam |
September 2009 |
Strategic Analysis

A Q Khan Release and Non-Proliferation

On February 6, 2009, the Pakistani judiciary acquitted Abdul Qadeer (AQ) Khan, the symbol of Pakistani involvement in clandestine nuclear commerce. Since 2004, he had been under house arrest after...

The Obama Administration’s Afghanistan–Pakistan Policy: In Need of an Urgent Rethink

If one needs to probe into the minds of what the Obama Administration is thinking in terms of its Afghanistan–Pakistan policy, the recently released Atlantic Council of the US report...