Interpreting China’s Third Plenum Xi Jinping’s new reformist approach of 2013 is a close reflection of Deng Xiaoping’s prescription of 1978. The Chinese political leadership is tightening its political grip and loosening economic control.... Keshab Chandra Ratha , Sushanta Kumar Mahapatra | July 2015 | Strategic Analysis
Challenges to the Revision of the Nepal–India 1950 Peace and Friendship Treaty The contemporary strategic and political environment has gone through tremendous changes in comparison to the context in which the 1950 treaty was signed. The Indian prime minister Narendra Modi’s August... Rohit Karki , Lekhnath Paudel | July 2015 | Strategic Analysis
Nuclear Security in Asia: Problems and Challenges The importance of nuclear security in Asia needs to be focused upon in view of the emerging challenges of nuclear proliferation, growing nuclear arsenals, expanding civilian nuclear energy programmes, weak... Reshmi Kazi | July 2015 | Strategic Analysis
South China Sea: India’s Maritime Gateway to the Pacific This article looks at India’s interests and strategy in the South China Sea (SCS). First, it highlights India’s maritime interests and discusses the relevance of the SCS to these interests.... Rajeev Ranjan Chaturvedy | July 2015 | Strategic Analysis
National Security: Concept, Measurement and Management The concept of national security has often been taken to merely connote the preservation of sovereignty, territorial integrity and internal stability with the focus on the coercive power of the... Satish Chandra , Rahul K. Bhonsle | July 2015 | Strategic Analysis
Recent ‘Chemical Incidents’ in France and Taiwan While the attack on the chemical warehouse in France and the accident in the Taiwanese park are not cases of chemical terrorism in a classical sense, they can be analysed... Ajey Lele | June 30, 2015 | IDSA Comments
A Tale of Two Disputes: China’s Irrationality and India’s Stakes In China’s foreign policy setting, the logic of ‘sovereignty’ and ‘history’ are employed or applied selectively as is evident from its reservation on India’s oil exploration in the South China... Rumel Dahiya , Jagannath P. Panda | June 29, 2015 | Policy Brief
Is it a Greek Tragedy or a European One? Do the successors of Monnet have the moral strength to move in the right direction rather than act like petty minded accountants who want to balance the books at any... K. P. Fabian | June 29, 2015 | IDSA Comments
Why are Southeast Asians lured to fight for the Islamic State? If the experience of the Afghan–trained mujahids is anything to go by, the threat posed by returnees from Syria and Iraq has the potential to be far more lethal especially... Bilveer Singh | June 29, 2015 | IDSA Comments
The Modi factor in Central Asia Modi’s activism is welcomed in Central Asian countries, though they know that India has already missed the bus and it has a lot of catching up to do. P. Stobdan | June 24, 2015 | Issue Brief
