US-Taliban Peace Talks and the Disquiet Trump seems to have reconciled himself to the fact that Afghanistan may become an ‘Islamic Emirate of Taliban’ with Sharia Law being imposed with or without the consent of the... V. Mahalingam | January 01, 2019 | IDSA Comments
Global Strategic Trade Management: How India Adjusts its Export Control System for Accommodation in the Global System Publisher: Springer This book explores what military strategy is and how it is interconnected with policy on one hand and military operations on the other. In the process, it traces... Rajiv Nayan | | Book
East Asia Strategic Review: China’s Rising Strategic Ambitions in Asia Publisher: Pentagon Press The East Asia Strategic Review is the publication form the East Asia Centre, Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA), New Delhi. The volume entitled, China's Rising... M.S. Prathibha | | Book
Disruptive Technologies for the Militaries and Security Publisher: Springer, Singapore This book debates and discusses the present and future of Disruptive Technologies in general and military Disruptive Technologies in particular. Its primary goal is to discuss various... Ajey Lele | | Book
Reimagining Pakistan: Transforming a Dysfunctional Nuclear State Pakistan as a state has been in constant turmoil since its creation in 1947. Institutions of a modern, functional state could never take root in the country. Consequently, it has... Rajrajeshwari Singh | January 2019 | Strategic Analysis
Preventing Chemical Weapons: Arms Control and Disarmament as the Sciences Converge This 652-page book has six main sections and in total 21 chapters, including the introduction and conclusion. The basic themes discussed in the book include the prevention and disarmament issues... Ajey Lele | January 2019 | Strategic Analysis
China’s War on Smuggling: Law, Economic Life and the Making of the Modern State, 1845-1965 The process of state-building in China has taken place in phases, beginning with the efforts of the Qing dynasty (1644–1912), the Nationalist government (1928–1949) and later communist rule (1949- present).... Priyanka Pandit | January 2019 | Strategic Analysis
Strategic Wisdom from the Orient: Evaluating the Contemporary relevance of Kautilya’s Arthashastra and Sun Tzu’s Art of War Can non-Western sources of classical thought enhance our understanding about issues of statecraft, strategy-making, foreign policy, war and peace? Is it important to study such non-Western sources? And, can such... Akshay Joshi | January 2019 | Strategic Analysis
Saudi Arabia–Iran Contention and the Role of Foreign Actors The Sykes–Picot Agreement, the Iranian Revolution, the Gulf Wars, and other events that have unfolded after the Arab Uprising (the Arab Spring), have altered the course of West Asian history.... Vrushal T. Ghoble | January 2019 | Strategic Analysis
An Iranian Perspective on Iran–US Relations: Idealists Versus Materialists Over the past four decades, the relationship between Iran and the US has been marked by conflicts, ranging from hostage-taking and sanctions to military confrontation. The present research aims at... Mohammad Reza Chitsazian , Seyed Mohammad Ali Taghavi | January 2019 | Strategic Analysis
