Time to Bolster Global Biological and Chemical Defense Capabilities The 1972 Biological Weapons Convention (BWC)1 and 1993 Chemical Weapons Convention2 (CWC) serve as the norms against the use of biological and chemical weapons, respectively. However, recent biological and chemical…... Daniel M Gerstein | January-June 2019 | CBW Magazine
Agro-Warfare: Attack on Crops and Livestock The outbreak of two dreadful world wars led to the emergence of the need to develop better and sophisticated weapon systems to defeat the enemy. On both sides of the…... Tanvi Kaur | January-June 2019 | CBW Magazine
Japan’s Strategic Calculations: Constraints and Responses As the East Asian regional order becomes fragmented, how is Prime Minister Shinzo Abe managing Tokyo’s strategic interests within the US-Japan-China relations? Titli Basu | January 17, 2019 | Issue Brief
United States Bio-surveillance Project in South Korea: A conflict between Traditional and Non-Traditional Security The Twenty-first century security environment is highly uncertain. The changing security paradigm has deepened and broadened the concept to a large extent. On the one hand, the traditional notion of…... Vasudevan Mani Tripathi | January-June 2019 | CBW Magazine
The Strategy Trap: India and Pakistan Under the Nuclear Shadow Ever since India and Pakistan emerged as declared nuclear weapon states in 1998, national security ideation in both countries has factored in the nuclear dimension in significantly different ways. While... Arjun Subramaniam | January-March 2019 | Journal of Defence Studies
The New Saudi Initiative of ‘Arab and African Coastal States of the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden’ Facing huge political and security challenges in the Arabian Peninsula, Saudi Arabia now looks westward to the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden coast for a new regional security... Prasanta Kumar Pradhan | January 15, 2019 | IDSA Comments
Deciphering Beijing’s Digital Connection in Africa As the digital infrastructure backed by China becomes increasingly prevalent in the African continent, it is also important for the latter to have enough oversight to ensure that these tools... Kritika Roy | January-June 2019 | Africa Trends
AMISOM amidst the Dangers of Al-Shabaab It will be difficult to build a set of genuine national security forces when there is no widespread agreement on what constitutes the Somali ‘nation’ and how it should be... Aarushi Vikram | January-June 2019 | Africa Trends
South African President’s visit to India enhances relations South African President Cyril Ramaphosa’s visit to India provided an opportunity to honour the contribution of Nelson Mandela and Mahatma Gandhi and reinvigorate India’s relations with South Africa, a strategic... Ruchita Beri | January-June 2019 | Africa Trends
A lesson from crisis management in South Sudan The work for the Department of Peace Operations is thus amply clear. It must privilege the substantive side in its thinking as it approaches mandate making. This would ease the... Ali Ahmed | January-June 2019 | Africa Trends
