Making the offset policy work better A dynamic offset policy has to include a mechanism for identifying the causes for likely delay or default on the part of vendors in discharging their obligation and removing the... Amit Cowshish | March 20, 2019 | IDSA Comments
Servicing Committed Liabilities: Kicking the Can down The Road Will Not Help Shortage of funds even to service the committed liabilities raises questions about the financial affordability of the defence modernisation programme and viability of the push for ‘Make-in-India’ in defence. Amit Cowshish | March 14, 2019 | IDSA Comments
AK-203: A Boost for the Army and Make in India That the AK-203 would be produced in India with 100 per cent indigenous content in less than three years makes it a win-win deal for the Army and the Make... Amb. Sujan R. Chinoy , Laxman Kumar Behera | March 11, 2019 | IDSA Comments
Border is the core of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict Rather than frittering away its limited leverage on issues such as refugees, settlements or borders, the international community should focus on borders as a means of resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict... P. R. Kumaraswamy | March 05, 2019 | Issue Brief
MBS Visit Strengthens the Indo-Saudi Strategic Partnership The key focus areas during the visit of MBS to India were terrorism, investment, energy, skill development, security and Indian diaspora in Saudi Arabia. Lakshmi Priya | March 05, 2019 | IDSA Comments
The BRI and India’s Grand Strategy India’s rejection of the BRI for strategic reasons does not mean it is resistant to Chinese investments, which are—to the contrary—both welcome and rapidly increasing. Indian strategy in this respect... Rajesh Basrur | March 2019 | Strategic Analysis
Islamism and intelligence in South Asia: militancy, politics and security State sponsorship of terrorism is a complex and often ignored subject in contemporary security studies discourses. As stated by the British military historian Adrian Weale and noted in the foreword... Zainab Akhter | March 2019 | Strategic Analysis
Challenges in Europe: Indian Perspectives Europe is a vast expanse of land marked by diversity in terms of people, places, preferences, cultures and beliefs. Scholarly works, however, often reduce European plurality to one or a... Shreya Pandey | March 2019 | Strategic Analysis
No Place for Russia: European Security Institutions Since 1989 The dissolution of the Soviet Union, conflicts in former Soviet republics and in the Balkans, the war in Afghanistan and Iraq, the Arab Spring and the crisis in Syria, the... Aleksei Zakharov | March 2019 | Strategic Analysis
A Life Plucked Out of the Archives It is not easy to turn somebody’s personal archive, even if it is well kept, into a book ? that too a biography ? without falling in love with the... Ashok K. Behuria , Uttam Kumar Sinha | March 2019 | Strategic Analysis
