India’s relations with Indonesia, by Navrekha Sharma and Baladas Ghoshal The process of active collaboration between the practitioner and the scholar can sometimes result in desirable policy outcomes. The book under review is one such commendable initial attempt. Ambassador Navrekha... Udai Bhanu Singh | July 2016 | Strategic Analysis
Prisoners of geography: ten maps that explain everything about the world, by Tim Marshall Maps, world atlases, and travel books have always been invaluable sources of geographic knowledge. These sources, and their pedagogical significance, are a powerful tool used by geopolitical actors to control... Necati Anaz | July 2016 | Strategic Analysis
The Decision to Intervene: First Steps in India’s Grand Strategy in the 1971 War One of the most popular anecdotes of the 1971 war is Field Marshal Manekshaw’s tale of how he restrained an impatient Indira Gandhi from ordering an unprepared Indian army to... Chandrashekhar Dasgupta | July 2016 | Strategic Analysis
The Role of India and China in South Asia India is often perceived as a regional power, but a closer look reveals that it is in a disadvantageous position vis-à-vis China in South Asia. The first reason is that... Christian Wagner | July 2016 | Strategic Analysis
The International Community’s Intervention during the Conclusion of the War in Sri Lanka This article explores the backdrop of the engagement between the International Community (IC) and the Government of Sri Lanka (GoSL) over the conduct of the military during the last stages... Ramya Chamalie Jirasinghe | July 2016 | Strategic Analysis
A Failed US Peace Building Project in Afghanistan: Exploring Cause–Effect Relationship This article argues that while the concept of peace building proved beneficial to Western society, it drew flak in pre-2014 Afghanistan for its inbuilt faults, the overarching US–Taliban conflict and... Mushtaq A. Kaw | July 2016 | Strategic Analysis
The Emerging International Ideocracy and Russia’s Quest for Normal Politics This article analyses modern Western society from the standpoint of the concept of ‘ideocracy’. The author suggests that the development of mass societies and mass ideologies—noted by a number of... Alexander Lukin | July 2016 | Strategic Analysis
Sri Lanka after Rajapaksa: Can it Ignore China? Since the fall of the Mahinda Rajapaksa government, there has been an apparent foreign policy shift in Sri Lanka. There is a growing view that the new National Unity Government... Gulbin Sultana | July 2016 | Strategic Analysis
Moderates Strike Back in Iran: Imperatives for the International Community The results of the most recent Parliamentary and Assembly of Experts elections in Iran indicate that Iranians are increasingly unhappy with the conservative establishment in the country. The Reformists or... M. Mahtab Alam Rizvi | July 2016 | Strategic Analysis
Bose, beyond the ‘Mystery’ Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose has featured prominently in the news—and hence the public consciousness—only from time to time. As was often the case earlier, the recent prominence he has been... Amba Pande | July 2016 | Strategic Analysis
