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
Nurturing Capital Acquisitions While taking stock of the acquisition proposals and projects is critical for bringing in efficiency in defence procurements, the focus on statistics dissembles some important issues. Amit Cowshish | February 25, 2016 | IDSA Comments
Time to Expose Youth to National Security It is important to generate understanding among the youth about the basic concept of national security and the impact it has on human security and economic growth. V.K. Ahluwalia | February 24, 2016 | IDSA Comments
Analysis Based Forecast of Revised Estimates of Defence Budget 2015-16: Who Bails Out Whom? Sustaining and building defence capabilty is a continuous process. It requires both adequate budget allocations and full, efficient and judicous utilisation of the allocated budget. This does not appear to... Vinay Kaushal | February 23, 2016 | Issue Brief
Educated Unemployment and Insurgency in Manipur: Issues and Recommendations The problem of educated unemployment is mainly two fold, firstly, scarcity of government jobs, and secondly, the, virtual lack of any other employer in Manipur other than the government. Sushil Kumar Sharma | February 23, 2016 | Policy Brief
