Jinnah: His Successes, Failures and Role in History More than seven decades after Pakistan’s creation, Mohammad Ali Jinnah continues to captivate both his critics and admirers. While the former excoriate him for exploiting religion to achieve his goal,... Amit Cowshish | May 2021 | Strategic Analysis
Forget the Cheese of Zero COVID. Escape the Mousetrap of Lockdowns On February 18, SKY News UK trumpeted that ‘Lockdown is working! COVID-19 infection rate plummets in England’. Yet, as Figure 1 shows, Sweden with voluntary social distancing guidelines experienced an... Ramesh Thakur , David Redman | May 2021 | Strategic Analysis
Multilateral Initiatives and Security Dilemma: Explaining India’s Choice to Join the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) The article attempts to explain India’s contrasting strategic choices with regard to China-led initiatives in South Asia. While India chose to join the AIIB, it has opposed the BRI. While... Devendra Kumar | May 2021 | Strategic Analysis
American Activism on Religious Freedom in the Middle East: A Critique Since its enactment in October 1998, the International Religious Freedom Act has become a major instrument to further the American foreign policy agenda in the Middle East and elsewhere. While... P. R. Kumaraswamy | May 2021 | Strategic Analysis
Humanitarianism, National Security, and the Rohingya Refugee Policy of Bangladesh How do humanitarian norms and national security concerns shape a host state refugee policy? This article addresses this question in the context of Bangladesh, the largest host state in the... A.S.M. Ali Ashraf | May 2021 | Strategic Analysis
Russia’s Afghan Policy: Determinants and Outcomes Russia’s policy on Afghanistan has witnessed considerable transformation during the last two decades. This has allowed Moscow to change its stance towards the Taliban from confrontation to accommodation. The article... Vinay Kaura | May 2021 | Strategic Analysis
China-Iran Comprehensive Strategic Partnership: Likely Challenges for India The growing ties between China and Iran can have challenges for India’s relations with Iran and interests in the Persian Gulf region. Nonetheless, it is unlikely to seriously affect India-Iran... Md. Muddassir Quamar , Lakshmi Priya | April 30, 2021 | Issue Brief
Generality of Kautilyan Tenets Informed by Unique Indianness The interweaving of philosophy with statecraft lends Kautilya’s Arthashastra a unique comprehensive approach. Even if some of the Kautilyan tenets are resoundingly commonsensical, the lamp of philosophy credibly illuminates its... Kajari Kamal | April 28, 2021 | IDSA Comments
Countering Islamic State Ideology: Voices of Singapore Scholars edited by Muhammad Haniff Hassan and Rohan Gunaratna, with a Foreword by Karen Armstrong People often complain that Islamic scholars do little more than condemn the inhuman acts of so-called jihadist groups and fall short of delivering strong, incontrovertible rebuttals against the vicious narratives... Adil Rasheed | April-June 2021 | Journal of Defence Studies
The Concept of Active Defence in China’s Military Strategy, by Amrita Jash The strategy articulated by Deng Xiaoping in 1990 as a guiding tenet of China's foreign policy was: “Observe calmly, secure our position, cope with affairs calmly, hide our capacities and... Gurpreet S Khurana | April-June 2021 | Journal of Defence Studies
