The Line of Control: Travelling with Indian and Pakistani Armies, by Happymon Jacob India–Pakistan relations have become more complicated in the aftermath of the Pulwama attack that took place in February 2019, on the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel in the most... Shrabana Barua | July-September 2019 | Journal of Defence Studies
Everything Under the Heavens: How the Past Helps Shape China’s Push for Global Power The reformist and open policy which Beijing adopted in late 1978 has transformed the overall structure of Chinese economy, society as well as its military. It is because of the... Gunjan Singh | July 2019 | Strategic Analysis
Pakistan Adrift: Navigating Troubled Waters There is no dearth of literature emphasizing the role of domestic and international factors for the predominance of the military over civilian institutions in Pakistan. Some scholars relate it to... Syeda Sumaya Mehdi | July 2019 | Strategic Analysis
Why Terrorist Groups Form International Alliances The menace of terrorism has existed for centuries, but its modern, transnational version has ‘metastasized’ to the extent of threatening global peace and security. In 1975, security expert Brian Jenkins... Adil Rasheed | July 2019 | Strategic Analysis
Xi Jinping’s China There are several significant events which preceded China’s constitutional amendment of March 2018 that removed the presidential term limit boosting Xi Jinping’s standing as China’s prospective leader-for-life. Born to a... Atmaja Gohain Baruah | July 2019 | Strategic Analysis
India-China Relations: 1947–2000 – A Documentary Study (5 Volumes) Generations of scholars and analysts working on India-China issues will be grateful to Mr. Avtar Singh Bhasin for the extraordinary service he has done to them by bringing into the... Jayant Prasad | July 2019 | Strategic Analysis
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
