With Us and Against Us: How America’s Partners Help and Hinder the War on Terror Stephen Tankel, Columbia University Press, New York, 2018, 424 pp., US$ 30.00 (Paperback), ISBN: 9780231168113 P. R. Kumaraswamy | July 2020 | Strategic Analysis
Making of India’s Northeast, Geopolitics of Borderland and Transnational Interactions Dilip Gogoi, Routledge (South Asia Edition), Oxon, 2020, i-275 pp., Rs. 995/- hardback, ISBN 978-0-367-89832-8 Pushpita Das | July 2020 | Strategic Analysis
India–Vietnam Relations through the Prism of the Indo-Pacific Concept As influential actors in the regional security architecture, India and Vietnam share common political and security interests and their bilateral cooperation plays a crucial role in contributing towards shaping a... Sanghamitra Sarma | July 2020 | Strategic Analysis
Re-categorisation of High-Enriched Uranium and Plutonium for Safeguards Verification: Is It Necessary? What are the Other Options? The desirability and necessity of having a relook into the re-categorization of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) defined High-Enriched Uranium (HEU) and Plutonium (Pu) by focussing on the relevance of... K.L. Ramakumar | July 2020 | Strategic Analysis
Discursive (De)legitimization of the Iran Nuclear Deal in Donald Trump’s Tweets On May 8, 2018, President Trump withdrew the US from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). Since the JCPOA is endorsed by a United Nations Security Council Resolution and... Hossein Nourani , Afsaneh Danesh , Mohammad Reza Nouri , Farzaneh Latifi | July 2020 | Strategic Analysis
Emerging Contours of India–US Fossil Fuel Trade The value of India’s oil and gas trade with the United States rapidly increased in size over the last two to three years. Efforts by New Delhi to build better... Sujata Ashwarya | July 2020 | Strategic Analysis
Xunzi’s and Kautilya’s Thoughts on Inter-state Politics Xunzi and The Kautilya Arthasastra are full of rich philosophical thoughts on inter-state relations. This article undertakes a comparison between them in terms of their methods of writing, views on... Yan Xuetong | July 2020 | Strategic Analysis
Pakistan’s CPEC Obsession: Boon or Bane? While the ruling elite including army in Pakistan considers CPEC a boon, many analysts view it as a Chinese game-plan to turn Pakistan into a permanent colony, a rentier-cum-client state. Yaqoob-ul-Hassan | June 30, 2020 | IDSA Comments
Time to Leverage the Strategic Potential of Andaman & Nicobar Islands A focused development plan for the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, which provide India with a commanding geostrategic presence in the Bay of Bengal and access to South and Southeast Asia,... Amb. Sujan R. Chinoy | June 26, 2020 | Policy Brief
Dichotomies in Pakistan’s Approach Towards Pakistan-occupied Kashmir Pakistan has not allowed a genuine democratic system of governance to emerge in PoK, as it interferes with its pursuit of absolute control over the occupied territories. Priyanka Singh | June 26, 2020 | Issue Brief
