Gilgit Baltistan as Fifth Province: Reconciling with the Status Quo? Gilgit Baltistan’s absorption may signal a paradigmatic shift in Pakistan’s Kashmir strategy. However, Pakistan would have to reset the contours of its position on Kashmir including an implied acceptance of... Priyanka Singh | March 04, 2016 | IDSA Comments
All About Pay and Perks: India’s Defence Budget 2016-17 The two heads of expenditure which have witnessed significant growth in the defence budget 2016-17 are the salary component of the armed forces and the defence pensions. Laxman Kumar Behera | March 03, 2016 | Issue Brief
Defence Budget 2016-17: A Clear Message to the Armed Forces It is time India devised appropriate tactics to meet the current threat. It is imperative that the armed forces prepare for ‘the most likely scenario’ rather than ‘the worst case... Ramesh Phadke | March 02, 2016 | IDSA Comments
Metamorphosis of the Defence Budget 2016-17 The defence budget for the next fiscal has been completely restructured, making it difficult to make like-to-like comparisons. The growth in the defence budget is bound to disappoint the strategic... Amit Cowshish | March 02, 2016 | IDSA Comments
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
