Raksha Mantri to Pursue India’s Defence Cooperation Agenda in SCO India should institute regular strategic and security dialogue and conferences to discuss issues of common interests and identify priority actions for stronger cooperation with SCO countries. P. Stobdan | April 16, 2018 | IDSA Comments
Defence Budget: Beyond the Numbers Objectives and resources have to be in sync with each other and if adequate resources cannot be provided objectives have to be suitably recalibrated and alternative ways found to achieve... Amit Cowshish | April 16, 2018 | IDSA Comments
Jihadist Radicalisation in India: Internal Challenges, External Threats The Indian strategic community has for long debated aspects of jihadist radicalisation in the country—particularly over its origins, causes, extent, trajectory and possible counter-measures. This article posits that in the... Adil Rasheed | April-June 2018 | Journal of Defence Studies
Inherent Structural Constraints Challenging India’s Internal Security The words ‘internal security’ do not figure in the Constitution of India. At the time of the framing of the Indian Constitution, the lawmakers were more worried about preserving the... G.K. Pillai | April-June 2018 | Journal of Defence Studies
Police and Counter-Insurgency: The Untold Story of Tripura’s COIN Campaign, by Kuldeep Kumar The role of the state police in combating insurgencies has not been given due acknowledgement in India despite the success stories of Punjab, Andhra Pradesh and West Bengal where police... Mathew Sinu Simon | April-June 2018 | Journal of Defence Studies
India’s National Security Annual Review 2016–17, edited by Satish Kumar The volume under review is the sixteenth in the series of the project supported by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and the National Security Council Secretariat (NSCS). The series... S. Samuel C. Rajiv | April-June 2018 | Journal of Defence Studies
Keeping India Safe: The Dilemma of Internal Security, by Vappala Balachandran The hedgehog’s or the porcupine’s dilemma is a metaphor about the challenges of coexistence. It describes a situation in which a group of hedgehogs seek to move close to one... Ghanshyam Katoch | April-June 2018 | Journal of Defence Studies
The CRPF and Internal Security: A Perspective Analysis This article critically analyses the strengths and weaknesses of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), as the prime agency of the Government of India, attending to manifold matters of internal... P.M. Nair | April-June 2018 | Journal of Defence Studies
The Quest for Nagalim: Fault Lines and Challenges The Naga quest for independence is one of the longest-running struggles in the Indian subcontinent. Despite numerous attempts made in the past towards resolving the conflict, it continues to remain... Pradeep Singh Chhonkar | April-June 2018 | Journal of Defence Studies
Decentralisation, Autonomy and Effective Governance: Policy Options for Resolving the Kashmir Imbroglio This article looks at the essential conditions for a durable peace in Kashmir and argues that the Valley has been most peaceful only during an active, on-going peace process. The... Syed Jaleel Hussain | April-June 2018 | Journal of Defence Studies
