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
India and Central Asia: Untying the Energy Knot India was always aware of the enormous energy reserves within its geographically proximate Central Asian region that could potentially fulfil its energy demands. The recent visit by Prime Minister Modi... P. Stobdan | January 2016 | Strategic Analysis
Kurdistan: Ataturk to Öcalan The rise of Dawlat al-Islamiyah f’al-Iraq w Belaad al-Sham (Daesh), or Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), in the vacuum created by the war in these countries has reignited... Sandhya Jain | January 2016 | Strategic Analysis
Assessing India’s Cyber Resilience: Institutional Stability Matters In this commentary, I will use strategic cyberwar theory1 to explain why India has a higher level of cyber resilience than several of its potential adversaries. Even if India has... Jan Kallberg | January 2016 | Strategic Analysis
The Arab Spring that was and wasn’t When each dictator fell, there was hope that the country might move towards democracy even if the route might prove to be long and difficult. That hope has proved to... K. P. Fabian | December 31, 2015 | IDSA Comments
2015: A Year of Work-in-Progress for Defence The issues confronting the defence establishment at the beginning of the year broadly related to defence policy, human resource management and operational preparedness. Amit Cowshish | December 29, 2015 | IDSA Comments
For Successful Implementation of the Land Boundary Agreement with Bangladesh It is essential in the interest of economic development and smooth rehabilitation of the affected people that funds as part of a comprehensive financial package be devolved to the West... Gautam Sen | December 29, 2015 | IDSA Comments
