Challenges in Implementing JCPOA after the US Withdrawal While Iran and its European interlocutors (along with Russia and China) can be expected to mount a tough challenge to continue to make the JCPOA work in the light of... S. Samuel C. Rajiv | May 17, 2018 | Issue Brief
Iraq Elections-May 2018: Prospects and Possibilities In the present form, Prime Minister Abadi looks set to emerge as the largest block but the chances of his coalition getting the required majority are slim. Rajeev Agarwal | May 08, 2018 | IDSA Comments
Historic Summit at Panmunjom While the recent Korean Summit marks the beginning of the new era, to achieve lasting peace will require intense diplomatic efforts. G.G. Dwivedi | May 04, 2018 | IDSA Comments
The Pashtun Uprising in Pakistan: A Plea for Justice With the ever increasing support and swelling number of protesters, Pashteen changed the name of the organisation from the Mehsud Tahafuz Movement to Pashtun Tahafuz Movement, a Movement for the... Zainab Akhter , Yaqoob-ul-Hassan | May 04, 2018 | IDSA Comments
South Asian ‘Zombie’: The futility of reviving SAARC Given the structural fragility of SAARC and its inability to promote South Asian regional integration, an attempt to reboot the organisation would be futile. Rajeesh Kumar | May 01, 2018 | Issue Brief
Indian Nuclear Policy—1964–98 (A Personal Recollection) This is a personal recollection of the author on the evolution of the Indian nuclear policy and developments leading to the Shakti tests. Since it draws solely upon the author’s... K. Subrahmanyam | May 2018 | Strategic Analysis
Nuclear Arms Race in South Asia? – An Analysis Ever since India and Pakistan conducted their nuclear tests in 1998, it has been the favourite pastime of many analysts writing on nuclear issues to cast the strategic stability in... G. Balachandran | May 2018 | Strategic Analysis
India’s Deterrence and Disarmament: The Impact of Pokhran-II After the nuclear weapons tests of May 11, 1998, Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee made a matter-of-fact statement: “I have an announcement to make: today at 3:45 p.m., India conducted... Jayant Prasad | May 2018 | Strategic Analysis
US–Soviet/Russian Dialogue on the Nuclear Weapons Programme of India The history of the US–Soviet and US–Russian dialogues on the nuclear weapons programme of India can be divided into two major periods: First, from Pokhran I up to the end... Petr V. Topychkanov | May 2018 | Strategic Analysis
Nuclear Armed for Uncertain Times India can look back with more than a fair measure of satisfaction on the past two decades since its nuclear weapon tests of May 1998. Those tests signalled a strategic... Sheel Kant Sharma | May 2018 | Strategic Analysis
