Strategic Analysis

The Irrepressible Taliban!

The Taliban are proving to be increasingly irrepressible. They seem to be adapting, faster than expected, to the challenges confronting them. Although in terms of weaponry they cannot match the...

Doctrinal Challenges, Nation Building, Terror Tactics and the Power of the Child: A Tale of Three ‘Sites’

Is NPT Membership as a Nuclear Weapon State an Option for India?

Today, it is necessary for India to respond to the current crisis of the NPT and weigh its options vis-a-vis the Treaty. This paper is an attempt to explore answers...

Rajiv Nayan |
November 2007 |
Strategic Analysis

China’s Search for Energy Security: Emerging Dilemmas

As the world's fastest growing energy consumer, China has attracted enormous attention over the last few years. This paper looks at the factors influencing China's policies and strategies in its...

The Maoist Movement in Nepal and Its Tactical Digressions: A Study of Strategic Revolutionary Phases, and Future Implications

King Gyanendra's takeover of absolute political power in February 2005 paved the way for the Maoists of Nepal and the political parties to fight together for democracy. In signing the...

The Re-emergence of the Tamil Nadu Factor in India’s Sri Lanka Policy

The Tamil minority in Sri Lanka have traditionally exerted a sympathetic pull on their co-ethnics in Tamil Nadu. This has inevitably influenced India's policy towards Sri Lanka. The assassination of...

New Dimensions to the India-Japan Strategic Partnership: Shinzo Abe’s Visit

G.V.C. Naidu |
November 2007 |
Strategic Analysis

India-Japan Relations: Are There Prospects for Civil Nuclear Cooperation?

60 Years of India’s Independence and Democracy

The Rise of Pakistani Taliban and the Response of the State

The rise of a militant Islamist group calling itself Pakistani Taliban has drawn wider international attention in recent years. It has appeared as a serious internal security threat for the...

Japan’s Self-Defense Forces: Towards a Normal Military

The Self-Defense Forces (SDF) are one of the variables of the distinctly pacifist security policy Japan has followed ever since the end of the war. Japan's ongoing 'normalisation' involves an...

Arpita Mathur |
September 2007 |
Strategic Analysis

The China-Pakistan Strategic Relationship: Trade, Investment, Energy and Infrastructure

The traditional Sino-Pakistan friendship of 55 years now has a new objective—to improve the economic content of their relationship, which comprises trade, investment and energy co-operation within a bilateral framework....

Sumita Kumar |
September 2007 |
Strategic Analysis

Nuclear Proliferation Challenges and India’s Response

India is uniquely placed in the international security and political environment as it neither falls within the NPT 'definition' of 'nuclear weapon states' nor is it a country that can...

A Decade of Ceasefire in Nagaland

Gurinder Singh |
September 2007 |
Strategic Analysis

Strategic Analysis

The Irrepressible Taliban!

Doctrinal Challenges, Nation Building, Terror Tactics and the Power of the Child: A Tale of Three ‘Sites’

Is NPT Membership as a Nuclear Weapon State an Option for India?

China’s Search for Energy Security: Emerging Dilemmas

The Maoist Movement in Nepal and Its Tactical Digressions: A Study of Strategic Revolutionary Phases, and Future Implications

The Re-emergence of the Tamil Nadu Factor in India’s Sri Lanka Policy

New Dimensions to the India-Japan Strategic Partnership: Shinzo Abe’s Visit

India-Japan Relations: Are There Prospects for Civil Nuclear Cooperation?

60 Years of India’s Independence and Democracy

The Rise of Pakistani Taliban and the Response of the State

Japan’s Self-Defense Forces: Towards a Normal Military

The China-Pakistan Strategic Relationship: Trade, Investment, Energy and Infrastructure

Nuclear Proliferation Challenges and India’s Response

A Decade of Ceasefire in Nagaland

India’s Aid to Afghanistan: Challenges and Prospects

The Hamas Takeover and its Aftermath

On the State of Media Violence in Nepal

China’s New Left: Wang Hui China’s New Order: Society, Politics and Economy in Transition

Burma in the Balance: The Geopolitics of Gas

The Chinese Discourse on the ‘Rise of China’