Prime Minister’s Outreach to Political Leaders of Jammu and Kashmir Taking positive measures to address the core issues of misgovernance and corruption and ensuring fair and rightful distribution of resources will help in the revival of the political process in... Nazir Ahmad Mir | July 22, 2021 | IDSA Comments
The U.S. Intelligence Community and the Roots of the Pandemic Virus Abstract The U.S. Intelligence Community (IC) report regarding the roots of the SARS-CoV-2, as reflected in a published unclassified summary (August 2021), was excessively inconclusive, and has hence been followed,…... Dany Shoham , Yossi Kuperwasser | July-December 2021 | CBW Magazine
Influence of Vedanta on Indian Strategic Culture While discussing the roots of strategic culture of any country, it is important to understand its core belief systems, enshrined in its spiritual, philosophical, political and military treatises that may... Adil Rasheed | July-September 2021 | Journal of Defence Studies
A Proposal for Biosecurity Framework in India Abstract Perpetual biological threats in India presented in different forms, and of various intensities call for a comprehensive biosecurity framework. Rapidly advancing scientific developments in synthetic biology have altered the…... Mrinmayee Bhushan | July-December 2021 | CBW Magazine
Cultural Explanation of Statecraft: The Polities and Policies of Asoka and Akbar Constructivism argues that the behaviour of actors in international politics is shaped by factors like identity, norms, rules, etc. Though it has been well argued that these factors shape and... Nazir Ahmad Mir | July-September 2021 | Journal of Defence Studies
A Comparison of Kamandaka’s Nitisara and Kautilya’s Arthashastra: Statecraft, Diplomacy and Warfare Kamandaka’s Nitisara was composed after the classic and the only surviving root text of Kautilya’s Arthashastra. Both the texts are important milestones in Indic heritage and tradition of political science.... P. K. Gautam | July-September 2021 | Journal of Defence Studies
A ‘Regional’ Intervention in the Debate on India’s Strategic Culture: Maratha Statecraft in Agyapatra Existing scholarship on India’s strategic culture pronounces on it either based almost entirely on India’s post-independence strategic behaviour with some references to the pre-independence period or on select historical experiences... Arpita Anant | July-September 2021 | Journal of Defence Studies
Can we Become Wiser from the Havoc of COVID-19? Abstract: COVID-19 sent the whole world and economy into a tailspin. This article first explores the brief history of use of biological weapons. Furthermore, it encapsulates the debates surrounding the…... D. Padma Kumar Pillay | July-December 2021 | CBW Magazine
Novichok and Murkier case of Navalny poisoning: Is Russia Flouting Chemical Weapon Convention obligations? Abstract: Novichok nerve agents developed by the Soviet Union during the Cold War emerged as a lethal tool due to their use in attempted assassinations recently. Two such attempts involving…... Animesh Roul | July-December 2021 | CBW Magazine
Interrogating ‘Hyphenated Cultures’: India’s Strategic Culture and its Intelligence Culture In the late 1950s, the concept of 'political culture' was first developed. Towards the end of the Cold War, scholars in International Relations (IR) theory and security studies developed the... Michael Liebig | July-September 2021 | Journal of Defence Studies
