One Year of Pashtun Tahafuz Movement Although the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement has been able to mainstream the Pashtun issue and has inspired popular empathy, its anti-establishment thrust has made it a soft target for the pro-establishment... Zainab Akhter | January 28, 2019 | IDSA Comments
India’s National Security: Annual Review 2018 National security refers to securing a nation’s citizens, territory, resources, assets, ideologies, institutions, and interests against threats which may emanate from changing geopolitical state of affairs, changing relations between nations,... Atul Pant | January-March 2019 | Journal of Defence Studies
India’s Domestic Debate over China’s Growing Strategic Presence in the Indian Ocean This article seeks to capture the domestic debate in India over China’s activities in the Indian Ocean. It engages the critical geopolitical articulation around formal, practical and popular geopolitics, and... Rajdeep Pakanati | January-March 2019 | Journal of Defence Studies
Debating Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems Technology and the armed forces have a symbiotic relationship. Many technologies which are presently used in day-to-day life, like the Internet or navigation systems (global positioning system [GPS]), actually have... Ajey Lele | January-March 2019 | Journal of Defence Studies
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
