A Joint India-Indonesia Intervention on the Rohingya Issue Given that both India and Indonesia have a common interest in preserving their respective democratic, multi-ethnic and multi-religious polities, they need to work together to induce Myanmar to control the... Gautam Sen | December 15, 2016 | IDSA Comments
The Africa-ICC Trouble: A Case for Systemic Reforms The African notifications of intention to quit ICC have yet again highlighted the need for systemic changes in the current world order. Only a non-discriminatory, democratic and inclusive UNSC reflecting... Saurabh Mishra | October-December 2016 | Africa Trends
South Sudan: From Conflict to Peace and Back One of the primary reason for recurrence of violence is the failure of peace agreements to address the real issues of conflict. The 2005 Comprehensive Peace Accord (CPA) and Addis... Rajeesh Kumar | October-December 2016 | Africa Trends
Blue Economy: Towards India-Africa Cooperation The existence of vast natural resources, both living and non- living, in the marine ecosystem, has led to a concern about sustainability of harnessing these resources. The increasing emphasis on... Ruchita Beri | October-December 2016 | Africa Trends
Changing Contexts of Chinese Military Strategy and Doctrine This monograph identifies the contexts which have shaped China's military strategy and doctrine. It argues that these have evolved through Party-Military relations as well as through the Chinese leadership's assessment... Prashant Kumar Singh | 2016 | Monograph
The ‘Social Media’ Challenge to National Security: Impact and Opportunities: A Conceptual Overview The monograph hopes to succeed in providing a conceptual framework to understanding this emerging challenge and draw up a set of best practices and recommendations for policy makers and law... Shruti Pandalai | 2016 | Monograph
The Jamaica Defence Force – Balancing Priorities with Resources The Jamaican Defence Forces have retained their cutting edge due to a skillful balancing of priorities with resources, the weak economy notwithstanding. Sanjay Badri-Maharaj | December 09, 2016 | IDSA Comments
Where is Europe Headed? Brexit, the results of the elections held in Italy and Austria on December 4, 2016, and certain related recent developments in Europe raise questions about the future of the Union. K. P. Fabian | December 08, 2016 | IDSA Comments
India’s UNSC Bid: Is it different this time? A careful reading of the report of the deliberations of the UNGA on November 7, 2016 would suggest that nothing has changed at the ground level; only the rhetoric of... Rajeesh Kumar | December 08, 2016 | IDSA Comments
Impressment Exercise for ‘Civil Hired Transport’ (CHT): Is there a better way to do it in Digital India? The Army needs to comprehensively review the existing SoP for this exercise, liaise with MORTH and NHAI and jointly develop a software which can generate traffic data reports that would... Vinay Kaushal | December 08, 2016 | IDSA Comments
