A Review of India-Japan Defence Technology Cooperation While broad agreement at the top leadership level has been easy to achieve, negotiations relating to defence equipment and technology cooperation have proved to be difficult, shaped as these are... Titli Basu | August 31, 2018 | IDSA Comments
China’s vulnerability, India’s opportunity India must jettison the attempt to maintain a balance between China and the US and instead take advantage of China’s internal and external vulnerabilities to gain an upper hand in... Abanti Bhattacharya | August 27, 2018 | IDSA Comments
Modi’s Tour of Africa Revitalises Relations Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent tour of Rwanda, Uganda and South Africa increased to 26 the number of African countries visited by very senior leaders, thus contributing to a significant... Ruchita Beri | August 21, 2018 | IDSA Comments
Examining the Feasibility and Affordability of Raising the Share of Defence Expenditure to Three Percent of GDP The Brief argues that MoD’s total allocations should be considered for any discussion on defence expenditure since the official defence expenditure does not capture all the expenses that the government... Laxman Kumar Behera | August 20, 2018 | Issue Brief
The Need for a Mid-Term Review of the 13th Defence Five Year Plan The Defence Planning Committee needs to activate its ‘Plan and Capability Development’ Sub-committee and task them to review the 13th Defence Plan in a time bound manner. Vinay Kaushal | August 14, 2018 | IDSA Comments
Pakistan Elections and India Whenever a civilian government has attempted to improve relations with India, it has either had to backtrack on promises made or the Pakistan Army ensures that, through its actions at... Deepak Kapoor | August 08, 2018 | IDSA Comments
New Delhi’s Options Post the Publication of the NRC in Assam The best way forward for India is to initiate talks with Bangladesh and seek a mutually acceptable political solution for the issue of illegal immigrants. Pushpita Das | August 02, 2018 | IDSA Comments
India and Chemical Security – Can Another Bhopal be Avoided? “Basically, these hazardous chemical facilities are stationary weapons of mass destruction spread all around the country” – then Senator Barack Obama, 2006 Introduction The Indian chemical industry estimated today to…... H.R. Naidu Gade | July-December 2018 | CBW Magazine
The Great Game in Afghanistan: Rajiv Gandhi, General Zia, and the Unending War, by Kallol Bhattacherjee A journalist by profession, Kallol Bhattacherjee has written extensively on South Asian affairs and on conflicts in the Middle East and North Africa. In writing The Great Game in Afghanistan,... N. Bahri | July-September 2018 | Journal of Defence Studies
From Smart Power to Sharp Power: How China Promotes her National Interests Authoritarian regimes are increasingly taking recourse to sharp power as a preferred means of realising national interests. Sharp power weaves an intricate web of responses short of war, such as... Mandip Singh | July-September 2018 | Journal of Defence Studies
