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

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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

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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

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Abolishing Nuclear Weapons by George Perkovich and James M. Acton

• Satish Chandra |
• September 2009 |
• Strategic Analysis

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

• Ali Ahmed |
• September 2009 |
• Strategic Analysis

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

• Arvind Gupta |
• September 2009 |
• Strategic Analysis

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

• Ali Ahmed |
• September 2009 |
• Strategic Analysis

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Unravelling the Mosaic: Spatial Aspects of Ethnicity in Nepal

• Arvind Gupta |
• September 2009 |
• Strategic Analysis

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

• Reshmi Kazi |
• September 2009 |
• Strategic Analysis

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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

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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...

• Rajiv Nayan |
• July 2009 |
• Strategic Analysis

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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...

• Namrata Goswami |
• July 2009 |
• Strategic Analysis

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The Why and What of Water Security

That there is a freshwater crisis today is an irrefutable fact. That there is also a water policy that is in perpetual crisis is an equally undeniable fact. Continued population...

• Uttam Kumar Sinha |
• July 2009 |
• Strategic Analysis

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Central Asian Geopolitics and China’s Security

From a geopolitical perspective, Central Asia is one of the most important regions of the world due to its impact over great powers. At the outset, it should be made...

• Zhao Huasheng |
• July 2009 |
• Strategic Analysis

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Geopolitical Importance of Central Asia: Russian View

Geopolitics has always had a global dimension even since the time of H.J. Mackinder. In the current context, understanding of a region like Central Asia would be incomplete without comprehending...

• Evgeny Kozhokin |
• July 2009 |
• Strategic Analysis

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India and the Convention on Cluster Munitions

On May 30, 2008, the Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM) was adopted by 107 countries at a diplomatic conference in Dublin, Ireland. However, India was not a party to this...

• Binalakshmi Nepram |
• July 2009 |
• Strategic Analysis

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Naval Diplomacy and Maritime Security in the Western Indian Ocean

Maritime violence off the Horn of Africa has generated immense global attention. Ships carrying cargo that included oil, military weapons, and chemicals have been attacked. More than 20,000 vessels ply...

• Brian Wilson |
• July 2009 |
• Strategic Analysis

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The Danger of Nuclear Terrorism: The Indian Case

The concept of nuclear terrorism is possibly the least understood of all dangers emanating from nuclear weapons. However, certain drivers like the nuclear black market (the AQ Khan Network), proliferation...

• Reshmi Kazi |
• July 2009 |
• Strategic Analysis

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Arms to Agreement: Northern Ireland’s Move from War to Peace

For over three decades, Northern Ireland endured one of the most violent and intractable conflicts. Those years brought into focus the fundamental issues that have underlain the 'Irish Question' for...

• Rayan Gawn |
• July 2009 |
• Strategic Analysis

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The National Front in Afghan Politics: An Exploratory Study

The Jabhe-e-Melli or the National Front (NF) is largely considered inconsequential in Afghan politics. It is often dismissed as a loose mlange of elements from the former United Front or...

• Vishal Chandra |
• July 2009 |
• Strategic Analysis

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