Significance of the Jordanian Parliamentary Election The most significant outcome of the Jordanian parliamentary election has been the participation of the Islamic Action Front (IAF), the political wing of the officially banned Muslim Brotherhood. In many... Manjari Singh | September 28, 2016 | IDSA Comments
Coast Guards in the Western Hemisphere – The Dutch Connection The Dutch Shipbuilding Company Damen’s success in the Western Hemisphere has important lessons for ship manufacturers who wish to export small and medium sized patrol vessels to the region and... Sanjay Badri-Maharaj | September 27, 2016 | IDSA Comments
DPRK’s Nuclear Provocations and the Indian Response India needs to engage more pointedly with South Korea, Japan, the United States and even bilaterally with DPRK to convey its concerns regarding the latter’s strategic cooperation with Pakistan. Jagannath P. Panda | September 27, 2016 | IDSA Comments
The End of an Era in Uzbekistan President Islam Karimov’s foremost contribution to the region and the world is to shield Uzbekistan from the onslaught of radical Islam. Skand Tayal | September 26, 2016 | IDSA Comments
Syria: The Cease-Fire that was and wasn’t The Kerry-Lavrov agreement did not work because those who had to cease fire were not willing to abide by it. K. P. Fabian | September 23, 2016 | IDSA Comments
Calibrated Responses: The Way Forward for Defeating Proxy War Through a pragmatic strategy coupled with national will, India should undertake calibrated responses to defeat Pakistan’s proxy war game plan with a view to making its misadventures prohibitively costly and... G.G. Dwivedi | September 23, 2016 | IDSA Comments
Pakistan’s Tactical Nuclear Warheads and India’s Nuclear Doctrine The advocacy by Pakistani analysts of the Indian disinclination to retaliate massively in response to their use of TNWs on their own soil indicates either a flawed analysis or a... Gurmeet Kanwal | September 21, 2016 | Issue Brief
Trinidad and Tobago’s Air Arms: Inefficient Duplication of Effort For Trinidad and Tobago, having two Air Arms has led to duplication of effort that has rendered existing assets less effective than they otherwise might have been. A faulty procurement... Sanjay Badri-Maharaj | September 21, 2016 | IDSA Comments
Can Prachanda use his India visit to resolve the Madhes issue at home? Prime Minister Puspa Kamal Dahal has a whole pile of problems lying unsolved at home. And he has only nine months, as set by his coalition partners, to deliver on... Umesh K. Bhattarai | September 16, 2016 | IDSA Comments
Deciphering Pakistan’s Kashmir Lexicon India has failed the Valley by not countering the false narratives of Pakistan’s false lexicon on Kashmir. Prabha Rao | September 08, 2016 | Issue Brief
