The Braided River: A Journey along the Brahmaputra: Samrat Choudhury, HarperCollins India, Noida, 2021 The Brahmaputra is the oldest antecedent and the widest braided river flowing through China, India, and Bangladesh. It is known as Tsangpo in Tibet, Siang in the hills of Arunachal... Hassan Momin | January-February 2023 | Strategic Analysis
Let My People Know: The Incredible Story of Middle East Peace—and What Lies Ahead: Aryeh Lightstone, New York, Encounter Books, 2022 No one better than a representative assigned the task to put the wheels of the Abraham Accords in motion could give a bird’s eye view of the events leading to... B. Poornima | January-February 2023 | Strategic Analysis
Deep State Continuum in Pakistan and Implications for India: Jyoti M. Pathania, New Delhi, KW Publishers, 2022 In a country like Pakistan, where none of its Prime Ministers could ever complete a full five-year term in office, the role of the so-called ‘deep State’ — a term... Adil Rasheed | January-February 2023 | Strategic Analysis
India as Kingmaker: Status Quo or Revisionist Power: Michael O. Slobodchikoff and Aakriti A. Tandon, Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 2022 The two authors of the book under review are academics at separate campuses in the United States, with the first having to his credit previously published books in international and... Sunil Khatri | January-February 2023 | Strategic Analysis
Innovate to Dominate: The Rise of the Chinese Techno-Security State: Tai Ming Cheung, Ithaca and London, Cornell University Press, 2022 The outcome of the 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, held in October 2022, was on predictable lines. It was no surprise that President Xi Jinping was chosen... Laxman Kumar Behera | January-February 2023 | Strategic Analysis
Efficiency in Emergency: A Perception Study of Hierarchical Versus Flat Organizational Structures for Joint Disaster Response in the Bay of Bengal Region Large-scale disasters have far-reaching impacts that transcend national borders, making a coordinated, “one region-one response” approach essential, particularly in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Bay of Bengal region... Rajat Mohan Bhatt , Deepali Garge | January-February 2023 | Strategic Analysis
Blame Game on Article 370: Patel, Nehru, and Ayyangar On 5 August 2019, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi took a bold decision and made drastic changes to Article 370 of the Indian Constitution, thus changing the legal status of... Pavan Kumar | January-February 2023 | Strategic Analysis
Economic Rationale for the Proposed Bridge Between India and Sri Lanka: An Analytical Perspective The Governments of India and Sri Lanka signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to build a bridge across the Palk Strait in July 2002 to join the island nation with... Gayasha Sathsarani Samarakoon | January-February 2023 | Strategic Analysis
Emerging Dynamics Between the Chinese State and Big-Tech: The Case of Alibaba The past few years have been tumultuous for the Chinese State and big-tech relations. The ground reality for the big-tech internet companies in China has transformed from being indulgent and... Megha Shrivastava | January-February 2023 | Strategic Analysis
Iran’s Strategic Behaviour Against ISIS: Religio-Cultural Context of Shrines and Martyrdom The killing of Qassem Soleimani in 2020 again brought the religio-cultural significance of ‘martyrdom’ into limelight in Iran. He got recognized as the ‘Defender-Martyr of Holy Shrine’ given his role... Shafat Yousuf , Rafiullah Azmi | January-February 2023 | Strategic Analysis
