Additional Allocation for Defence – A Challenging Task for MoF The government seems to have little fiscal space for accommodating the demand of the armed forces for additional funds, given its quantum on the one hand and the state of... Amit Cowshish | September 26, 2019 | IDSA Comments
The Next Step in Building India-China Military to Military (M2M) Relations The incremental and calibrated improvement in the India-China defence ties has withstood the test of time. The next step in building M2M relations could provide the required impetus to further... Mandip Singh | September 16, 2019 | IDSA Comments
India’s ‘No First Use’ Nuclear Doctrine The Defence Minister’s recent statement on ‘no first use’ basically underlines the fact that India’s current nuclear doctrine is working well. Rajiv Nayan | September 16, 2019 | IDSA Comments
Sri Lanka at the Crossroads: Geopolitical Challenges and National Interests Sri Lanka has always featured in any discussion on Indian Ocean geopolitics. However, its geopolitical significance has increased manifold after the end of the long-drawn war that saw the defeat... Smruti S. Pattanaik | September 2019 | Strategic Analysis
New Directions in India’s Foreign Policy: Theory and Praxis One of the limitations of Indian foreign policy literature is its apathy towards employing novel approaches and methods. Though Indian foreign policy has gone through a dramatic transformation, particularly in... Rajeesh Kumar | September 2019 | Strategic Analysis
Jordan and the Arab Uprisings: Regime Survival and Politics Beyond the State Carved by imperial powers, Jordan is a small state surrounded by a large but unstable neighbourhood. Among all the chaos, Jordan offers a semblance of stability sans durability owing to... Lakshmi Priya | September 2019 | Strategic Analysis
Indian Ocean Perspectives: From Sea Power to Ocean Prosperity Long before the Atlantic and the Pacific became theatres for commerce and conflict, the Indian Ocean was home to considerable commercial and cultural intercourse. Most recent literature has, however, focused... Sanjaya Baru | September 2019 | Strategic Analysis
Actions Speak Louder than Words: China’s Consultative Peacekeeping in Africa Existing concepts (e.g. ‘non-interference’ and ‘pragmatism’) remain too vague to provide explanations for China’s increasingly assertive security policy. To avoid this pitfall, this article adopts a narrower focus on Chinese... Ivo Ganchev | September 2019 | Strategic Analysis
Theorizing EU-TRACECA Relationship in Eurasian Context This article contends that the Transport Corridor Europe-Caucasus-Asia (TRACECA) is European Union’s (EU) most visionary trans-regional connectivity project. It theorizes the EU-TRACECA relationship to show that the TRACECA represents different... Mushtaq A. Kaw | September 2019 | Strategic Analysis
Geopolitics of Western Indian Ocean: Unravelling China’s Multi-dimensional Presence The Western Indian Ocean (WIO) is now attaining centrestage in the geopolitics of the Indian Ocean. Apart from France and the US, China holds significant interests in the WIO. China’s... Sankalp Gurjar | September 2019 | Strategic Analysis
