Connectivity is No Panacea for an Unprepared Northeast India In the apparently lackadaisical environment of North East India, ‘connectivity’ is the new energiser. From Manipur bordering Myanmar, to Assam bordering Bhutan and Bangladesh; everyone is looking to connectivity with... Pratim Ranjan Bose | July 2019 | Strategic Analysis
Political Indifference and State Complicity: The Travails of Hazaras in Balochistan Pakistan is a forbidding place for minorities—confessional, sectarian and ideological. Violence, direct and structural and exacted with eerie regularity has ghettoised minority communities and forced them to flee. Among them,... Shakoor Ahmad Wani | July 2019 | Strategic Analysis
Terrorism Can and Should be Defined. But How? The debate over what constitutes terrorism spans a wide, diverse and largely a competing body of intellectual strands. In particular, the lack of consensus on the need (or otherwise) for... Muhammad Feyyaz | July 2019 | Strategic Analysis
Considered Chaos: Revisiting Pakistan’s ‘Strategic Depth’ in Afghanistan Pakistan’s historical insecurity towards India and the Islamisation of its military raises a curious question of strategy and identity rooted in Pakistan’s political genesis. This article examines the social and... Aidan Parkes | July 2019 | Strategic Analysis
Ethnicity and Violent Conflicts in Northeast India: Analysing the Trends This article is a moderate attempt to understand the various ideas associated with ethnicity and ethnic conflicts, and to study the nature, trends and typology of ethnic and insurgent conflicts... Deborshi Brahmachari | July 2019 | Strategic Analysis
India–Africa Co-Operation on Maritime Security: Need for Deeper Engagement With approximately 74 million Sq Km and 20per cent of the global ocean, the Indian Ocean is the third largest ocean in the world. Alarmingly, this area has over the... Njoki Mboce | July 2019 | Strategic Analysis
Indo-US Defence Partnership: Future Prospects Given India’s evolving procurement system, efforts should be made to enhance compatibility of technology from various sources. This may require greater cooperation with the US since many of India’s suppliers... Amb. Sujan R. Chinoy | June 26, 2019 | IDSA Comments
Line on Fire: Ceasefire Violations and India–Pakistan Escalation Dynamics, by Happymon Jacob While contending the prevailing realists’ explanation of war happening because of power struggle, John Vasquez argues in his book, The War Puzzle Revisited, that a majority of wars are fought... Nazir Ahmad Mir | July-September 2019 | Journal of Defence Studies
Defence Agenda for Modi Government 2.0 Implementing the outlined 27 reform measures in four broad areas – Planning, Defence Budget, Acquisition and Make in India – would strengthen defence preparedness and build a credible defence industrial... Laxman Kumar Behera | June 06, 2019 | Policy Brief
WhatsApp: One Call away from being a spyware The WhatsApp bug brings to light the same old dilemma between safeguarding individual privacy and enabling the state to undertake surveillance in the interest of security. Kritika Roy | June 03, 2019 | IDSA Comments
