The Escalating South China Sea Dispute – Lessons for India For Indian observers, it is useful to extrapolate known Chinese position in the Indian Ocean Region and assess Beijing’s likely strategic behaviour. Indian policymakers might well recognise the fact that... Abhijit Singh | March 01, 2016 | IDSA Comments
Union Budget 2016-17: Deciphering the Defence Budget The underutilisation of allocated funds suggest that the meagre funds available in the modernisation budget after catering for committed liabilities have not been fully utilised. Thus, a thorough introspection for... Vinay Kaushal | March 01, 2016 | IDSA Comments
The China–Pakistan axis: Asia’s new geopolitics by Andrew Small ‘“It is a little naive to think that the trouble with China was essentially due to a dispute over some territories. It had deeper reasons.”—Jawaharlal Nehru’ (p. 68). ‘“China has... Satyam Malaviya | March 2016 | Strategic Analysis
Routledge handbook of Chinese media by Gary D. Rawnsley and Ming-yeh T. Rawnsley In the last three decades, the Chinese economy and society have witnessed unprecedented change and development. Since the introduction of the economic reforms in 1978 under the leadership of Deng... Gunjan Singh | March 2016 | Strategic Analysis
Midnight’s furies: the deadly legacy of India’s partition by Nisid Hajari In 2015, when India and Pakistan are into their 69th year of independence, this is an occasion to look back on the lost plot of their strategic engagements. The partition... Atul K. Thakur | March 2016 | Strategic Analysis
Re-emerging Powers and the Impasse in the UNSC over R2P Intervention in Syria The article examines the influence of BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) members that acts as an important condition of success for implementation of the three-pillared Responsibility to... Christo Odeyemi | March 2016 | Strategic Analysis
Landlocked and Transit Developing Countries: Nepal’s Transit Route Negotiations with India There are multiple levels of relationship between India and Nepal. This article deals exclusively with their bilateral transit relations, focusing on their negotiations in the context of Nepal as a... Nihar R. Nayak | March 2016 | Strategic Analysis
Modelling Multi-actor Security Dilemma Regardless of the everlasting debate whether the nature of the international system is anarchic or cooperative, ‘security dilemma’ remains a well-known and oft-cited concept. Intimately connected to it is the... Jakub Drmola | March 2016 | Strategic Analysis
Significance of the November 2015 Myanmar Elections Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) won by a landslide majority in the openly contested elections Myanmar held on Sunday, November 8, 2015.The NLD won a convincing... Udai Bhanu Singh | March 2016 | Strategic Analysis
Asian-African Century with Two Centres of Gravity: Reconciling the Potential of India with China, Already a Peer of the US While China and the United States (US) have recognised the strategic significance of the re-emergence of Asia, India has yet to see itself as one of the two centres of... Mukul Sanwal | March 2016 | Strategic Analysis
