PSLV-C29: Demonstrating India’s Growing Space Capabilities On December 16, ISRO demonstrated its growing capabilities with multiple burn fuel stage/rocket engine. In few years, ISRO is expected to put big primary payloads into different orbits by using... Ajey Lele | December 22, 2015 | IDSA Comments
Resuming the India-Pakistan Dialogue Even faced with the improbability of making much headway on terrorism and Kashmir in the resumed dialogue, it is still important for India to engage with Pakistan. Sumita Kumar | December 22, 2015 | IDSA Comments
Fallout of Turkey’s Shooting Down of the Russian Aircraft Turkey’s unprecedented military action raises two questions: What is the likely impact on its ties with Russia? And, what are the dynamics of a ‘Russia-West’ collaboration over Syria? Rajorshi Roy | December 22, 2015 | IDSA Comments
India’s New Maritime Security Strategy: ‘Brand-building’ in an Era of ‘Geopolitical Discord’ The inability to portray greater strategic ambition for the Indian Navy renders this document an exercise in smart profile-building rather than one of purposeful image-projection. Abhijit Singh | December 21, 2015 | IDSA Comments
The Naga Peace Accord: Manipur Connections The Naga Peace Accord has implications for Manipur and it is important that these are understood and necessary policy interventions are considered. Sushil Kumar Sharma | December 18, 2015 | Policy Brief
Defence Research and Development: International Approaches for Analysing the Indian Programme The Occasional Paper attempts to analyse the performance of India's defence research and development machinery and especially that of the DRDO. The Paper concludes by bringing out the lessons and... Ranjit Ghosh | | Occasional Papers
COP21: The Toothless Paris Agreement The fact that the developed countries succeeded in making all commitments non-binding makes the Paris Agreement almost toothless. Shebonti Ray Dadwal , Satyam Malaviya | December 18, 2015 | IDSA Comments
Arctic: Commerce, Governance and Policy Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 978-1-13-885599-1 Price: $145.00 In May 2013, China, India, Japan, Singapore and South Korea (Asia 5) were given status as permanent observers in the Arctic Council. It was... Uttam Kumar Sinha , Jo Inge Bekkevold | | Book
“I was born in the party”: Women in Maoist Ranks Women join Maoist ranks for a variety of reasons: impressionable age, social milieu and circumstances, personal reasons, influence of kin or family and the inspiration of ideology. P. V. Ramana | December 15, 2015 | IDSA Comments
FOCAC- China’s Deepening Engagement with Africa and Its Implications The FOCAC process began in 2000 under the Presidency of Jiang Zemin when the first ministerial meeting was held in Beijing and has come a long way since then as... Avinash Godbole | October-December 2015 | Africa Trends
