Unpacking UK Combat Air Strategy The UK Combat Air Strategy unveiled on July 16, 2018 can actually be termed as the Combat Aircraft Industry Strategy. India, with a nearly non-existing aircraft industry, can benefit by... Kishore Kumar Khera | July 23, 2018 | IDSA Comments
Indian Aircraft Industry: Possible Innovations for Success in the Twenty-First Century, by Vivek Kapur Taking off in 1940 with the establishment of Hindustan Aircraft Limited (later named Hindustan Aeronautics Limited or HAL), the Indian aviation industry has grown in spurts over the past seven... Kishore Kumar Khera | July-September 2018 | Journal of Defence Studies
India’s Defence Diplomacy with Southeast Asia: An Impetus to Act East India’s Act East policy is delivering results its approach towards Southeast Asia. India’s improving stature in the region along with other key geopolitical players has heralded its arrival as a... Vignesh Ram | July-September 2018 | Journal of Defence Studies
Kautilya’s Arthashastra: Indian Strategic Culture and Grand Strategic Preferences The utility of the theory of strategic culture to explain the choices nation-states make is still to be convincingly proven. Alastair Iain Johnston has provided a viable notion of strategic... Kajari Kamal | July-September 2018 | Journal of Defence Studies
Army and Nation: The Military and Indian Democracy since Independence, by Steven I. Wilkinson Steven I. Wilkinson’s work on the Indian Army and its relationship to Indian democracy is mandatory reading for scholars interested in civil-military relations. Ironically, despite the voluminous literature on civil-military... Kartik Bommakanti | July-September 2018 | Journal of Defence Studies
Emerging India-Indonesia Comprehensive Strategic Partnership India and Indonesia recently upgraded bilateral ties to a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership, a move that comes on the eve of 70 years of diplomatic relations between the two countries. This... Udai Bhanu Singh | July-September 2018 | Journal of Defence Studies
Africa and the G20 An increased level of engagement of the G20 with Africa could be significant as it could activate the existing G20 initiatives. It is also significant because it proposes to venture... Arpita Anant | July-December 2018 | Africa Trends
“…if the people in Rwanda ever needed help, now was the time…” The media, visual and means of mass communication have often been criticised for presenting a biased and skewed viewpoint on the conflict. However, the power of documentaries like the Ghosts... Priyal Pandey | July-December 2018 | Africa Trends
India’s Economic Diplomacy with Ethiopia Several international players are competing to finance projects in African countries, and New Delhi will be at a disadvantage if it does not proactively engage in strengthening development partnerships. As... Chithra Purushothaman | July-December 2018 | Africa Trends
Turkey’s growing strategic inroads in Africa In many ways Turkey is reviving its historic relations with Africa with an eye to strengthen economic ties and gain strategic depth, but for some this is a reminder of... Md. Muddassir Quamar | July-December 2018 | Africa Trends
