CDS and Beyond Integration of the Indian Armed Forces Publisher: KW Publishers Defence reforms are a challenge for most countries. The lessons from India’s experience suggest that major change has almost always been mandated from the very top. The... Vivek Chadha | | Book
China’s Agricultural and Industrial Policies in 1971* The performance of the agricultural and industrial sectors during 1971 acquires an added significance as 1971 happens to be the first year of China’s ambitious Fourth Five-Year Plan. This Plan... T. Sreedhara Rao | January 2021 | Strategic Analysis
Islam, Authoritarianism and Underdevelopment: A Global and Historical Comparison Islam, Authoritarianism and Underdevelopment: A Global and Historical Comparison, by Ahmet T. Kuru, Bruce E. Porteous Professor of Political Science at San Diego State University, is a recent book on... Javad Heiran-Nia | January 2021 | Strategic Analysis
South Asian Regionalism: The Limits of Cooperation Regionalism in South Asia continues to evoke intense academic interest among scholars. SAARC, an organization that was conceptualized in the early eighties, evinced both hope and despair. A hope to... Smruti S. Pattanaik | January 2021 | Strategic Analysis
The Elusive Quest for an ‘Asian NATO’ The turn of the twenty-first century brought with it the miraculous economic rise of China in Asia and beyond; American strategy towards the region, denoted by the ‘pivot to Asia’... Jagannath P. Panda | January 2021 | Strategic Analysis
The KMT’s Predicament: Cross-Strait Relations and Taiwan’s Domestic Politics On October 6, 2020, Taiwan’s Legislative Yuan (parliament) passed two important Resolutions, moved by the main opposition party, the Kuomintang (KMT). These sought to ensure ‘US military aid in combating... Prashant Kumar Singh | January 2021 | Strategic Analysis
Strategic Use of Cam Ranh Bay in Vietnam’s External Relations with Major Powers The article focuses on analyzing the ‘Cam Ranh policy’ of the Vietnamese government as well as the implementation of this policy since 2002 via its relations with major powers such... Pham Thi Yen | January 2021 | Strategic Analysis
Modeling Attribution of Cyber Attacks Using Bayesian Belief Networks The article makes an attempt to bring to the fore the various factors which are considered in the due process of attribution of a cyber-attack and the correlation of credible... Munish Sharma | January 2021 | Strategic Analysis
The Sino-Indian Geopolitics and Maritime Security of the Indian Ocean Region The Indian Ocean Region (IOR) is a prominent arena in international politics, in terms of trade, tourism, population, among other aspects. Several countries, some unconnected geographically, have shown interest in... Sainandan S. Iyer , Ranadhir Mukhopadhyay , Sridhar D. Iyer | January 2021 | Strategic Analysis
Erdogan’s New Foreign Policy Volte Face It remains to be seen to what extent Turkish President Recep Tayyeb Erdogan’s recent efforts to mend broken regional ties and address concerns over domestic policies will succeed. Adil Rasheed | December 23, 2020 | IDSA Comments
