Realigning America’s Grand Strategy: Biden Will Have His Hands Full Biden has set an ambitious agenda to reinvigorate US global leadership by pursuing a proactive grand strategy. He will, however, have to reckon with the legacy of Trumpism that has made a significant imprint on American foreign policy. A. Vinod Kumar | November 27, 2020 | Issue Brief
Post-Abe Japan’s Ties with the United States Despite change in leadership in Japan, the new Prime Minister Suga Yoshihide looks set to continue the policies of his predecessor, Abe Shinzo. Both domestic and external factors may affect policies. Abhijitha Singh | November 24, 2020 | IDSA Comments
Decoding Defence Acquisition Procedure 2020 The Defence Acquisition Procedure (DAP 2020), which supersedes the Defence Procurement Procedure 2016 (DPP 2016), is a sincere effort by the Ministry of Defence to improve the capital procurement procedure. Amit Cowshish | November 20, 2020 | Issue Brief
India and Israel: The Making of a Strategic Partnership Publisher: Routledge India and Israel contextualises the varied aspects of the partnership between India and Israel, with a specific focus on the dominant driver — the defence engagement between the two sides, forged in the context of mutual complementarities. India’s broad-spectrum relationship with Israel transformed into a strategic partnership in 2017, a quarter century after the establishment of full diplomatic ties. India and Israel have successfully steered the relationship forward, despite the baggage of fraught and convulsive neighbourhoods. The contributors to this volume include policy makers and military leaders who played an important role in the growth of the relationship, as well as academics who have closely followed its growth, shedding important light on the transformation of the India-Israel bilateral relationship into a strategic partnership over the course of past tumultuous 25 years. Chapters highlight Israel’s increasing engagement with India’s diverse federal polity, the de-hyphenation of the India-Israel ties from India’s relationship with Palestine, as well as the role played by US non-state (pro-Israel US-based interest groups) and sub-state (US Congressmen) actors in shaping India-Israel ties. The concluding chapter examines Israel’s relationship with the Peoples Republic of China (PRC), given that both the PRC and India established diplomatic ties with Israel almost simultaneously. India and Israel will be of great interest to scholars of strategic studies, international relations, Middle Eastern Studies, Asian Studies, as well as those working in diplomacy, government and the military. The chapters were originally published as a special issue of Strategic Analysis. ISBN: 9780367465049, Price: £96.00 S. Samuel C. Rajiv , Jayant Prasad | | Book
Countering The Radical Narrative Publisher: KW Publishers Terrorist groups are driven by extremist political ideologies or distorted religious discourses, which they then propagate through traditional and modern means of communication to wean more recruits to their diabolic designs. The indoctrination of these extremist ideologies lead to transformation of law-abiding citizens into violent extremists, a process known as radicalisation. This book proposes ways and techniques for reversing this process of radicalisation by taking the fight to the terrorists in the ideological domain. It proposes ways for developing and launching counter-narrative campaigns against radicalisation in order to drain the ideological swamp from which terrorist organisations continue to rear their ugly heads. This book specifically provides conceptual insights into developing counter-narratives against jihadist organisations, like Al Qaeda, ISIS and Pakistan-based terror groups. ISBN: 978-938-913-771-2 , Price: ?.1088/- E-copy available Soon Adil Rasheed | | Book
The Forgotten Fact of “China-Occupied Kashmir” There is a need to widely disseminate China’s insidious role as an illegal occupier of Kashmir’s territory, including its territorial grab in the trans-Karakoram tract, in order to raise public awareness of the issue – both in India and at the international level. Amb. Sujan R. Chinoy | November 13, 2020 | Special Feature
Can India be the Next Global Manufacturing Hub? The COVID-19 pandemic, which has revealed the inherent weaknesses in the existing global supply chain and risks of over-reliance on China’s manufacturing industry, presents new opportunities for India to rethink its industrial strategy, especially policies concerning the growth of its manufacturing sector. Kogila Balakrishnan , Saurabh Kukreja | November 13, 2020 | Issue Brief
Turkish Foreign Policy: From ‘Zero Problem’ to Zero Friends Turkish global power aspirations are hindered by a lack of regional influence. Ankara wishes to enhance strategic depth in the neighborhood. Deviating from a soft power approach, President Erdogan has increasingly adopted a confrontational foreign policy. Md. Muddassir Quamar | November 06, 2020 | IDSA Comments
U.N. Peace-Keeping: Asian, African and American Interaction November 2020 Volume: 44 Issue: 6 From the Archives Swadesh M Rana | November 2020 | Strategic Analysis
Aparna Pande, From Chanakya to Modi: The Evolution of India’s Foreign Policy Aparna Pande, From Chanakya to Modi: The Evolution of India’s Foreign Policy, Noida, HarperCollins India, 2020, 223 pp., Rs. 399:00 (paperback), ISBN 9789353579074 Lokendra Sharma | November 2020 | Strategic Analysis
