Caspian Sea Agreement and the International Energy Market The value of the Caspian energy reserve lies in its potential to add to global reserves of oil and gas, which, in turn, could bring down costs. Shebonti Ray Dadwal , Chithra Purushothaman | September 12, 2018 | IDSA Comments
Land Ahoy! Debarment Systems in Ministry of Defence start Coming of Age It is administratively easy and politically appealing to debar an errant entity, but the unintended consequences of debarment can be challenging to handle in high-technology areas such as defence Sandeep Verma | September 11, 2018 | Issue Brief
Building militaries in fragile states: challenges for the United States Mara E. Karlin in her book, Building Militaries in Fragile States: Challenges for the United States, investigates when, why and under what circumstances, US efforts to build partner militaries for... Harriet Njoki Mboce | September 2018 | Strategic Analysis
Zalmay Khalilzad, The envoy: from Kabul to the White House, my journey through a turbulent world Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad has provided a most readable account of his upbringing, his stint in the US National Security Council and his ambassadorships to Afghanistan, Iraq, and the United Nations.... Jayant Prasad | September 2018 | Strategic Analysis
Balochistan: On The International Drugs Superhighway Pakistan’s Balochistan province, which shares borders with Iran and Afghanistan, has quietly functioned as one of the main arteries through which Afghanistan’s massive opium crop reaches the outer world. Six... Sandhya Jain | September 2018 | Strategic Analysis
Power Trading and National Security Power trading across borders is not a new concept, even in the subcontinent. However, it has been sporadic and unstructured and often not in strict consonance with the requirements of... Sanjay Mitra , Richa Misra | September 2018 | Strategic Analysis
The Current and Future State of India–Bangladesh Relations At the outset, we must remind ourselves that Indo–Bangladesh cooperation began in the battlefield of 1971. As a freedom fighter diplomat, one recalls with deep appreciation and gratitude the whole-hearted... Syed Muazzem Ali | September 2018 | Strategic Analysis
India–Bangladesh Relations: An Indian Perspective The people of India and Bangladesh share close and multi-faceted socio-cultural, religious and linguistic ties spanning centuries. The two countries share the same values of secularism, pluralism and democracy, and... Harsh Vardhan Shringla | September 2018 | Strategic Analysis
Explaining Public Policy Choices: A Case Study of the First Nuclear Power Plant in Bangladesh This article employs the 3-i framework to explore the institutions, ideas, and interests that have shaped the Bangladesh government’s policy choices for implementing the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant, the first... A.S.M. Ali Ashraf , Md. Shafiqul Islam | September 2018 | Strategic Analysis
India’s ‘Act East’ Policy Towards the Two Koreas: Issues and Challenges The Narendra Modi government after coming to power in May 2014 initiated the ‘Act East’ policy to further enhance New Delhi’s engagement with the countries of the Asia-Pacific region. However,... Ranjit Kumar Dhawan | September 2018 | Strategic Analysis
