The Corporatisation of Ukraine War: A Case of Unfolding Asymmetry in Military Power The power of crowdsourcing budgetary support, technology, training, and logistic wherewithal, while at war, has emerged as an important lesson in the Ukraine war. Harinder Singh | March 22, 2023 | IDSA Comments
Clean Energy Transitions in Vietnam: Opportunities and Challenges Even as Vietnam has Southeast Asia's largest installed solar and wind power capacity, coal will continue to be the country’s primary source of energy till 2030. Shubham Rai | March 21, 2023 | IDSA Comments
A Need for an Autonomous Agency for Overseas Development Assistance There is a need for India to establish an autonomous agency to execute overseas development assistance programmes. D. Padma Kumar Pillay | March 15, 2023 | IDSA Comments
Historic 7 March 1971 Speech of Bangabandhu* “My brothers, I have come before you today with a heart laden with sadness. Sheikh Mujibur Rahman | March-April 2023 | Strategic Analysis
The Indian Test and the Nuclear Game Rules It is possible to argue that India’s nuclear strategy seems to have changed, but this does not necessarily at present mean a change in the fundamentals of India’s nuclear policy... Ashok Kapur | March-April 2023 | Strategic Analysis
The Indian Nuclear Test in a Global Perspective The Pokhran test carried out by the Indian Atomic Energy Commission on 18 May 1974, by and large, evoked predictable reactions. Those countries that had come to accept the conventional... K. Subrahmanyam | March-April 2023 | Strategic Analysis
Subcontinental Drift: Domestic Politics and India’s Foreign Policy, Rajesh Basrur, Washington, DC, Georgetown University Press The International Relations scholarship in India has rarely paid heed to domestic politics as a variable in foreign policy analysis. Most such attempts have focused on anecdotal discussions; this is... Anuttama Banerji | March-April 2023 | Strategic Analysis
Sovereign Attachments: Masculinity, Muslimness, and Affective Politics in Pakistan, Shenila Khoja-Moolji, Oakland, CA, University of California Press Asserting sovereignty across its territories remains the primary purpose of the modern State. There exist two kinds of sovereignties: legal sovereignty and de facto sovereignty. While legal sovereignty encompasses the... Muneeb Yousuf | March-April 2023 | Strategic Analysis
The Wires of War: Technology and the Global Struggle for Power, Jacob Helberg, New York, Avid Reader Press The defining feature of contemporary international politics is the global power struggle taking place at the intersection of technology and geopolitics. This power struggle has given way to a new... Anubha Gupta | March-April 2023 | Strategic Analysis
COVID-19 and Lessons from ‘Triple Lock’: COVID Containment Strategy of Kerala Police This Article reviews Kerala’s efforts to check the spread of novel coronavirus (COVID-19) without additional expenditure or infrastructure and employing the state police forces. This was remarkable in the face... D. Padma Kumar Pillay , Vijay Sakhare | March-April 2023 | Strategic Analysis
