US-Pakistan ties at a crossroads Pakistan’s responses with reference to the US encouraging India to play a greater role in Afghanistan raise an intriguing question: were Trump’s statements on India part of a gambit to... Priyanka Singh | September 11, 2017 | IDSA Comments
Rohingya Crisis Needs a Regional Solution The Rohingya crisis is not just Myanmar’s domestic problem but a regional issue and it needs to be tackled at the regional level in a more comprehensive way. Sampa Kundu | September 08, 2017 | IDSA Comments
Heading East: Security, Trade, and Environment Between India and Southeast Asia by Karen Stoll Farrell and Sumit Ganguly (eds.) Southeast Asia appeared in India’s purview in the post-Cold War era when it realised that it could reap substantial benefits by fostering relations with parts of the world other than... Shivani Agrawal | September 2017 | Strategic Analysis
Mossad: The Greatest Missions of the Israeli Secret Service by Michael Bar-Zohar and Nissim Mishal Michael Bar-Zohar and Nissim Mishal have co-authored a marvellous treatise on the doings and inner workings of one of the most feared secret service agencies in the world—Mossad. It follows... Jatin Kumar | September 2017 | Strategic Analysis
CPEC in Pakistan’s Quest for Energy Security In May 2017, some 1,200 delegates from 110 countries, including 29 visiting heads of state and government leaders, gathered in Beijing for China’s biggest diplomatic event, which was held to... Shebonti Ray Dadwal , Chithra Purushothaman | September 2017 | Strategic Analysis
The Flaw of Immediate Cyber Counter Strikes A dominant paradigm for militarised cyber operations, owing to a growing interest in such actions, is seeking an ability to strike back and launch cyber counter attacks immediately after being... Jan Kallberg , Rosemary A. Burk | September 2017 | Strategic Analysis
The Battle for Siachen Glacier: Beyond Just a Bilateral Dispute Contemporary scholarship working on Indo-Pak issues has tended to view Siachen as a bilateral issue, and therefore, not much literature has been generated analysing the conflict beyond this spatio-temporal realm.... Prateek Joshi | September 2017 | Strategic Analysis
Framing South Africa’s Soft Power through Non-State Sources South Africa arguably stands well above its regional counterparts in terms of soft power resources. This is not entirely unconnected with the uncalculated attempts by non-state actors to extend the... Olusola Ogunnubi , Oluwaseun Tella | September 2017 | Strategic Analysis
The US Concept and Practice of Hybrid Warfare The term ‘hybrid warfare’ has been used by American military experts for more than a decade already. However, until recently, there was no officially accepted definition of the term, and,... Vladimir I. Batyuk | September 2017 | Strategic Analysis
Compressing Politics in Counterinsurgency (COIN): Implications for COIN Theory from India’s Northeast Counterinsurgency (COIN) has long been recognised as a political phenomenon, but current theoretical understandings of politics in COIN reflect ideal types, overlooking the depth and complexity of the politics of... Alex Waterman | September 2017 | Strategic Analysis
