The 22nd Summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation The main focus of the 22nd Summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation in Samarkand was on strengthening regional cooperation and trade connectivity in Eurasia. Jason Wahlang | November 14, 2022 | Backgrounder
Israel–Lebanon Maritime Boundary Agreement: An Assessment The Lebanon–Israel maritime boundary agreement promotes the rule of international law and regional economic cooperation. Abhay Kumar Singh , S. Samuel C. Rajiv | November 11, 2022 | Issue Brief
Yemen: Growing Uncertainty after the Ceasefire The end of the ceasefire in Yemen without any substantial political understanding between the government and the Houthis heightens the risk of escalation of violence. Prasanta Kumar Pradhan | November 10, 2022 | IDSA Comments
PLA Western Theatre Command Lays Stress on Joint Operations Capabilities The PLA Western Theatre Command has focused on joint operations capabilities to counter the perceived lack of air superiority and information dominance in the theatre, which it believes is required for strike operations. M.S. Prathibha | November 02, 2022 | Issue Brief
One Year of AUKUS: An Assessment of Progress and Challenges AUKUS illustrates the growing strategic depth between the US and Australia, the UK’s return to ‘East of Suez’ and Australia’s attempts to revolutionise its defence industrial base. R. Vignesh , Abhay Kumar Singh | November 02, 2022 | Issue Brief
Eastern Mediterranean: A Natural Gas Hub Worth Exploring The Eastern Mediterranean offers India strong prospects for import of natural gas, given strong bilateral relations with regional countries, including Egypt, Israel, Greece and Cyprus. Md. Muddassir Quamar | November 01, 2022 | IDSA Comments
The Comrades and the Mullahs: China, Afghanistan and the New Asian Geopolitics: Ananth Krishnan and Stanly Johny, HarperCollins, Gurugram The conspicuous US withdrawal from Afghanistan has resulted in a political vacuum, garnering immediate attention of regional and great powers alike. In The Comrades and the Mullahs, presenting Afghanistan’s long history of foreign invasions and resistance, journalists Ananth Krishnan and Stanly Johny show how the country was a theatre for the Great Game between the British and Russian Empires, and later got caught in Cold War rivalry between the US and the Soviet Union. The return of the Taliban in Afghanistan has certainly become a diplomatic predicament for India. Muneeb Yousuf | November 2022 | Strategic Analysis
The False Promise of Liberal Order: Nostalgia, Delusion and the Rise of Trump: Patrick Porter, Polity Press, Cambridge and Medford The coming of Donald Trump to power as the 45th President of the United States amounted to a moment of reckoning for the American foreign policy establishment. With his unconventional posturing and populist moorings, the Trump presidency seemed antithetical to Washington DC’s ‘Blob’ worldview that guided American foreign policy in the post-Cold War years. Sanjeet Kashyap | November 2022 | Strategic Analysis
Independent Kashmir: An Incomplete Aspiration: Christopher Snedden, Manchester University Press, Manchester Independent Kashmir: An Incomplete Aspiration by noted author and expert Christopher Snedden touches upon a raw nerve in the discourse on Kashmir—the aspiration for independence. Snedden describes how and where exactly the idea germinated, sequentially tracing its evolution. This is Snedden’s third book on Kashmir; the first focussed on the so-called ‘Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK)’ that together with Gilgit-Baltistan forms Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK). The second book focused primarily on Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) in India. Priyanka Singh | November 2022 | Strategic Analysis
China in India’s Post-Cold War Engagement with Southeast Asia: Chietigj Bajpaee, Routledge, Abingdon, UK The commemoration of 2022 as the ‘ASEAN-India Year of Friendship’ marks thirty years of the partnership between India and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). Beginning in 1992 with India’s ‘Look East Policy’ (LEP), renamed ‘Act East Policy’ (AEP) in 2014, India has progressed from being a Sectoral Partner of ASEAN in 1992 to a Dialogue Partner in 1996 and a Summit-level Partner in 2002. Amrita Jash | November 2022 | Strategic Analysis
