The Food versus Fuel Debate The Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) has proposed that the terms of the debate be moved from food versus fuel to food and fuel. Ekta Niranjan | January 04, 2018 | Backgrounder
The India-ASEAN Partnership at 25 A stronger partnership and enhanced cooperation should be prioritised by both sides if the full potential of this engagement is to be realised. Ashok Sajjanhar | January 04, 2018 | IDSA Comments
Publication of the National Register of Citizens: a positive step, but what next Since the deportation of illegal migrants is not feasible, the only option before the government is to let them reside in the country on humanitarian grounds but after stripping them... Pushpita Das | January 04, 2018 | IDSA Comments
Post Doklam, India needs to watch China’s bullish economics led cultural embrace of South Asia Doklam brought into perspective the fractured relationship between India and China on the global stage and increased fears of China’s growing unilateralism as it inexorably broadens its interests and sphere... Shruti Pandalai | January 01, 2018 | Issue Brief
India’s Strategic Options in a Changing Cyberspace Publisher: Pentagon Press The book is structured to perform a role both as a primer to those who wish to understand the strategic issues and key concepts in cyberspace, as... Cherian Samuel , Munish Sharma | | Book
Asia in international relations: unlearning imperial power relations The discipline of International Relations (IR) is deeply enmeshed in the history, intellectual traditions and agency claims of the West, thus obscuring the contributions from the non-Western world. IR theory... Ananya Sharma | January 2018 | Strategic Analysis
Gas Pipelines—Politics and Rivalries In 2012, the International Energy Agency (IEA) in its ‘World Energy Outlook’ said that the world was entering a ‘Golden Age of Gas’. With its lower carbon-emitting properties, gas seemed... Shebonti Ray Dadwal , Chithra Purushothaman | January 2018 | Strategic Analysis
Analysing the Impacts of Drug Trafficking on Human Security in Central Asia The international security environment has undergone many changes since the end of the Cold War. There has been a need to adapt the concept of security with the changing conditions... Hamidreza Azizi | January 2018 | Strategic Analysis
China’s Mediation Efforts in the Middle East and North Africa: Constructive Conflict Management Mediation diplomacy has emerged as one of the central pillars of China’s foreign policy objectives and practice, with Beijing deliberately positioning itself as a peacemaker in the MENA region. This... Mordechai Chaziza | January 2018 | Strategic Analysis
India’s Bilateral Security Relationship in South Asia The article argues that the contours of a security architecture are becoming slowly visible in South Asia. This process is nurtured by two developments. First, since the 2000s, India has... Christian Wagner | January 2018 | Strategic Analysis