Secure Through Development: Evaluation of India’s Border Area Development Programme The Border Area Development Programme was initiated in the year 1986–87, to strengthen India’s security by ensuring developed and secure borders. Initially, the programme was implemented in the western border... N. Manoharan , Depak Saravanan , Vasvi Saini | January 2020 | Strategic Analysis
TikTok: A Ticking Bomb! TikTok has hooked youngsters around the world. What is worrisome is the lack of understanding about the long-term implications of such social media apps with regard to data protection and... Kritika Roy | December 24, 2019 | IDSA Comments
Analysing China’s Digital and Space Belt and Road Initiative The recently held second Belt and Road forum in April 2019 based on the theme “Shaping a Brighter Shared Future" gained considerable momentum in the world community. BRI has been... Ajey Lele | | Occasional Papers
India-Africa Cooperation in Human Resource Development: Education ,Training and Skills Human resource development (HRD) and capacity building are frequently claimed to be at the heart of India's development cooperation. This paper is one of the first to look inside these... Kenneth King | | Occasional Papers
Kudankulam: One Incident, Many Facets The existing approach to cyber security is heavily tilted towards practising deterrence by denial, essentially by building defences. However, the concept of deterrence needs further tweaking to make it workable... Cherian Samuel , Munish Sharma | December 16, 2019 | Issue Brief
India and the Nuclear High Road: Nuclear Cooperation Agreements with Japan and Australia Apart from the United States, India's nuclear cooperation agreements with Japan and Australia have been the most contentious domestically within those countries. The 'slow embrace' of India's civil nuclear credentials... S. Samuel C. Rajiv | 2019 | Monograph
Military Logistics Agreements: Wind in the Sails for Indian Navy Availability of logistics support facilities with partner countries will further enhance the ability of the Indian Navy to maintain appropriate ‘presence’ for extended periods in the wider Indo-Pacific. Roby Thomas | November 26, 2019 | IDSA Comments
Protocol for Contract Administration and Post-Contract Management There is a need to evolve a protocol for contract administration and post-contract management of all capital and revenue contracts awarded by various departments of the defence ministry and the... Amit Cowshish | November 25, 2019 | IDSA Comments
Defining the Charter of Chief of Defence Staff Having decided to create the post of CDS, the next logical step for the government is to define its charter of duties and responsibilities. The government needs to examine not... Laxman Kumar Behera | November 21, 2019 | IDSA Comments
Combating Terrorism: Evolving Asian Perspectives Publisher: Pentagon Press This anthology of essays traverses a wide range of issues exploring the inconsistencies in the global war on terror, and brings together diverse perspectives from eminent academia,... Shruti Pandalai | | Book
