Strategic Analysis

Politics in Post-Taliban Afghanistan: An Assessment

The Afghan war is far from over. With the political process that began in December 2001 having completed three years, it is pertinent to revisit and examine the course of...

The Revival of Insurgency in Balochistan

Four times since Pakistan’s creation, the Baloch, who never wanted to be part of Pakistan, have rebelled, demanding autonomy or an independent state. After three decades, Balochistan is in turmoil...

Cooperation Among Maritime Security Forces: Imperatives for India and Southeast Asia

The end of the Cold War witnessed a realignment of equations amongst states to adapt to the changed world order. Within its ‘Look East’ policy, India initiated an economic engagement...

Water Security: A Discursive Analysis

Water resources continue to attract considerable attention and have increasingly become a significant feature of the world security environment. In order to locate water in the security continuum, it is...

Tabligh-e-Jama’ at Under the Scanner of German Intelligence

On May 17, 2005, the Federal Interior Ministry of Germany published its annual report on the Protection of Constitution for 2004. For the last few years, the country’s domestic intelligence...

Trafalgar and Tsushima: Relevance for India

The one-armed picture of Lord Nelson, perhaps the most celebrated and eulogised of British seafarers, is synonymous with the victory at Trafalgar and the bicentennial celebrations of this famous sea...

The New US Agenda: Militarising Space

Space science, like nuclear science and all technology, has no conscience of its own. Whether it will become a force for good or ill depends on man, and only if...

Ajey Lele |
April 2005 |
Strategic Analysis

Vivek Chadha, Low Intensity Conflicts in India: An Analysis

Low intensity conflicts in India, despite a long history and a major threat to national security, have remained substantially under-researched. Though a number of books have been written on the...

Issues and Challenges in Modern Peace Operations

In the last decade, there have been fundamental changes in the nature, form and variety of peace operations. In fact, the very coining of a new term, ‘Peace Operations’ (PO),...

The Problem of Kashmir and the Problem in Kashmir: Divergence Demands Convergence

India and Pakistan have fought four wars over Kashmir and have held several rounds of talks to resolve the 57-year-old issue, but without any tangible success. The only progress thus...

Travails of Intelligence Assessment: From Failed to Fertile Imagination

September 11, according to the Commission that investigated that catastrophic event, was a result of a failure of imagination. Iraq’s nonexistent weapons of mass destruction, on the other hand, could...

Myth of the Monolith: The Challenge of Diversity in Pakistan

The paper seeks to study the challenges faced by the Pakistani state from the perspective of its vast ethno-cultural diversity which problematises the process of-nation building attempted by the Pakistani...

India-US Relations: A Paradigm Shift

An attempt has been made in this article to assess the arguments in favour of a fundamental shift in Indo-US relations by revisiting the history of their bilateral relations since...

India-Pakistan: Nuclear Stability and Diplomacy

The conceptual discourse, contributed to in the main by Western scholars, on the security and strategic stability of new nuclear weapon states like India and Pakistan seems alarmist. In reality,...

Emerging Frontiers of US Dual-Use Export Control Laws

The paper examines the salient features of the principal statutory authority, the Export Administration Act (EAA), that is, at present, governing dual-use technology control in the US, and the frontiers...

Rajiv Nayan |
January 2005 |
Strategic Analysis

Rumblings in the Northern Areas

Pakistan seems to have realised that with the silting of Tarbela Dam (it has lost more than 30 per cent of its storage capacity), it needs to build at least...

Alok Bansal |
January 2005 |
Strategic Analysis

Strategic Analysis

Politics in Post-Taliban Afghanistan: An Assessment

The Revival of Insurgency in Balochistan

Cooperation Among Maritime Security Forces: Imperatives for India and Southeast Asia

Water Security: A Discursive Analysis

Tabligh-e-Jama’ at Under the Scanner of German Intelligence

Trafalgar and Tsushima: Relevance for India

The New US Agenda: Militarising Space

Vivek Chadha, Low Intensity Conflicts in India: An Analysis

Issues and Challenges in Modern Peace Operations

The Problem of Kashmir and the Problem in Kashmir: Divergence Demands Convergence

Travails of Intelligence Assessment: From Failed to Fertile Imagination

Myth of the Monolith: The Challenge of Diversity in Pakistan

India-US Relations: A Paradigm Shift

India-Pakistan: Nuclear Stability and Diplomacy

Emerging Frontiers of US Dual-Use Export Control Laws

Rumblings in the Northern Areas

Warlords and Karzai’s Balancing Act

Transatlantic Relations: Bridging the Divide

Two Cheers to Kyoto Treaty

India-US Ties Poised for Radical Re-orientation