Securing Cyberspace: International and Asian Perspectives Publisher: Pentagon Press This edited volume contains the papers presented at the 18th Asian Security Conference at the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses held in February 2016. The authors,... Cherian Samuel , Munish Sharma | | Book
Asian Strategic Review 2016 -Terrorism: Emerging Trends Publisher: Pentagon Press Under the US leadership, the international community has been fighting the war on global terrorism for the past decade and a half. Strategies and targets have undergone... S. D. Muni , Vivek Chadha | | Book
Even If It Ain’t Broke Yet, Do Fix It: Enhancing Effectiveness Through Military Change Publisher: Pentagon Press Bringing about change in any setup, especially major shifts, is a challenges. This challenges is accentuated further in a strictly hierarchical organisation like the army, presenting an... Vivek Chadha | | Book
Indigenous Historical Knowledge: Kautilya and His Vocabulary (Volume III) Publisher: Pentagon Press This book is the third in a series of three volumes on "Kautilya and His Vocabulary" as a part of the "Indigenous Historical Knowledge" project undertaken by... P. K. Gautam , Saurabh Mishra , Arvind Gupta | | Book
India–Myanmar Relations: Changing Contours by Rajiv Bhatia Myanmar is an underrated neighbour with the potential to influence India’s vital strategic and economic interests. To keep track of the pulse of the mystic nation that is India’s closest... Udai Bhanu Singh | January 2016 | Strategic Analysis
Right Turn in Indian Polity: Modi on BJP’s Chariot by Yogesh Atal and Sunil K. Choudhary Actors, events and processes that determine the characteristics of the political scene in contemporary India may rightly be understood via a number of tropes—all equally useful and deficient at the... Shashank Chaturvedi | January 2016 | Strategic Analysis
Kashmir: The Vajpayee Years by A. S. Dulat and Aditya Sinha Until recently, most top officials in India who had dealt with very sensitive issues in government refrained from writing about them. The adage they followed was that what everyone wanted... Sushant Sareen | January 2016 | Strategic Analysis
Dynamics of ‘Civil-Military’ Relations in India The burgeoning scholarship on the army’s role in nation building, or the lack of it, is unsurprising. In the modern political order, a nation without its own army is hardly... Nazir Ahmad Mir | January 2016 | Strategic Analysis
Applying Human Security in the Indian Context This article explores the concept of human security and examines the scope for its adoption as a normative and policy framework in India. Human security prioritises non-military methods as a... D. Padma Kumar Pillay | January 2016 | Strategic Analysis
Implications of the Dragon’s Rise for South Asia: Assessing China’s Nepal Policy China has always been an important neighbour to Nepal which has otherwise historically been heavily influenced by India. The ‘rise of China’ has created a more outward-looking Middle Kingdom and... Bibek Chand , Lukas K. Danner | January 2016 | Strategic Analysis
