Spain’s Policy Shift on Western Sahara Spain extending support to the 2007 Moroccan plan of granting an autonomous status to Western Sahara under Moroccan sovereignty is a significant foreign policy shift. Anandita Bhada | May 19, 2022 | IDSA Comments
India’s Maritime Security: Five Concerns There are five fundamental deficiencies in India’s maritime security mechanism that will need to be addressed by the newly appointed National Maritime Security Coordinator (NMSC), to prevent a recurrence of... Anurag Bisen | May 18, 2022 | Issue Brief
Chinese News Media Narratives on the Ukraine Crisis The Chinese news media has peddled dual narrative of vilifying the West and glorifying China’s supposed mediatory role in the Russia–Ukraine crisis. Mayuri Banerjee | May 17, 2022 | IDSA Comments
All Roads Lead to North: Nepal’s Turn to China Amish Raj Mulmi’s All Roads Lead to North vividly and eloquently captures the growing Chinese inroads into Nepal. Growing Chinese influence is visible not just in the northern-most border villages... Rajshekhar Mehta | May 2022 | Strategic Analysis
Cyber Technological Paradigms and Threat Landscape in India In a discipline struggling to define even fundamental concepts like cyberspace and cyber threats, Ramnath Reghunadhan’s Cyber Technological Paradigms and Threat Landscape in India is a remarkable work to make... Krutika Patil | May 2022 | Strategic Analysis
China and South Asia: Changing Regional Dynamics, Development and Power Play China and South Asia is a collection of essays on Chinese foreign policy in South Asia and the Indian Ocean Region. It covers China’s diplomatic, political, economic, social, and cultural... Sudeep Kumar | May 2022 | Strategic Analysis
Salafism and Political Order in Africa In recent decades, Africa has emerged as one of the epicentres of jihadi terrorist groups. Scholars, analysts and policymakers have sought to unravel the factors underlying the presence, growth and... Sindhu Dinesh | May 2022 | Strategic Analysis
Contested Lands: India, China and the Boundary Dispute Maroof Raza’s new book Contested Lands: India, China, and the Boundary Dispute documents the evolution of India’s boundary with China, an issue that predates independence and annexation of Tibet. The... D. Padma Kumar Pillay | May 2022 | Strategic Analysis
Kathmandu Dilemma: Resetting India-Nepal Ties The book Kathmandu Dilemma: Resetting India-Nepal Ties by Ranjit Rae, a former Indian Ambassador to Nepal (September 2013 to February 2017), is timely, given that bilateral relations have been marred... Ranjit Rae | May 2022 | Strategic Analysis
Securing India in the Cyber Era: Sameer Patil, Routledge, New Delhi and Gateway House: Indian Council on Global Relations, Mumbai, 2022, 82 pp., £16.99 (E-Book), ISBN 9781003152910 Cyberspace has become the most prominent arena for geopolitical contestation. As conflicts move to another dimension, countries are manipulating cyberspace to exploit vulnerabilities of adversaries to conduct espionage, data theft... Abhimanyu Ghosh | May 2022 | Strategic Analysis
