Fatah at the Crossroads Abbas needs to take steps for a gradual change of guard in the Fatah within a specified time-frame to keep the cause of Palestinian statehood alive. Gautam Sen | January 04, 2017 | IDSA Comments
China’s Creeping Maritime Assertiveness The Chinese stance towards the December 15, 2016 incident relating to the seizure of USN UUV by PLA Navy has been extraordinarily ambiguous. Abhay Kumar Singh | January 03, 2017 | Issue Brief
The State of the State of Syria The partial cease-fire brokered and imposed by Russia and Turkey, with Iran’s concurrence, on Assad and the ‘moderates’, might mark a turning point in Syria’s tortuous journey since 2011. K. P. Fabian | January 02, 2017 | IDSA Comments
Modi’s stand-alone visit to Israel? A standalone visit to Israel will not only be in line with Modi’s engagement with the Middle East but would also send a powerful message to the international community that India is no longer apologetic about befriending Israel. P. R. Kumaraswamy | January 02, 2017 | IDSA Comments
A Requiem for 2016 Higher Defence Management, Civil-military relations and force modernisation were three critical areas in which there was little or no movement in the year gone by. Amit Cowshish | January 02, 2017 | IDSA Comments
The Arthasastra in a Transcultural Perspective: Comparing Kautilya with Sun-Zi, Nizam al-Mulk, Barani and Machiavelli Publisher: Pentagon Press This book is the product of a collaborative effort by the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, New Delhi; South Asia Institute, Heidelberg University; and Institute of South Asian Studies, National University Singapore. The volume contains papers exploring Kautilya’s Arthasastra in a transcultural perspective, comparing it with the thoughts of Sun-Zi, Nizam al-Mulk, Barani and Machiavelli. ISBN 978-81-8274-938-2 Price: ?. 995 E-copy available Michael Liebig , Saurabh Mishra | | Book
Fifty Years of the Outer Space Treaty: Tracing the Journey Publisher: Pentagon Press Developments in the outer space arena post the erstwhile USSR launching the first man-made satellite Sputnik in space on 4 October 1957 have transformed the world significantly. In order to ensure the exploration and use of outer space for peaceful purposes, the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS) was set up by the United Nations General Assembly in 1959. ISBN 978-81-8274-948-1, Price: ?. 995 E-copy available Ajey Lele | | Book
Smart diplomacy: exploring China-India synergy, by P.S. Suryanarayana In Smart Diplomacy: Exploring China-India Synergy, P.S. Suryanarayana has sought to answer the questions: ‘Will China and India live at peace with each other? Will they be able to overcome the deficit of trust between them? Will they be able to find amicable solutions to their disputes over their borders, Pakistan, Tibet, rivers, and trade, etc.?’ (p. iv). These questions, raised by Ambassador Tommy Koh in his foreword to the book, concern all those who want a stable and productive future for the two countries that Suryanarayana characterizes as the sunrise powers of the 21st century. Prashant Kumar Singh | January 2017 | Strategic Analysis
New south Asian security: six core relations underpinning regional security, by Chris Ogden Theorising about international relations in South Asia is a daunting task for any scholar of International Relations. The challenge lies in explaining the causal forces behind state behaviour, in order to illuminate a pattern for arriving at an understanding of these relations in a parsimonious manner. Medha Bisht | January 2017 | Strategic Analysis
Unheeded hinterland: identity and sovereignty in northeast India, by Dillip Gogoi Partly the result of a political and physical isolation compounded by decades of conflict in the region, Northeast India is often viewed through the prism of security studies, institutional performance or developmental governance. While important contributions in themselves, a state-centric focus often overlooks the complexity of the causes and dynamics. It ignores the consequences of regional societal forces’ articulation of identity, nationalism, separatism and sovereignty that can shape political boundaries in the region, thus overlooking the salience of subaltern narratives. Alex Waterman | January 2017 | Strategic Analysis
