Defence Manufacturing: In Search of a Composite Policy Framework It is time the MoD considered creating structures and organizations that are not an intrinsic part of the ministerial set up to implement the production and procurement policies once these... Amit Cowshish | May 11, 2015 | IDSA Comments
The China Pakistan Economic Corridor and India India has to take a call on whether it would like to be a party to the CPEC, sit on the fence, or convey its concerns more emphatically in a... Priyanka Singh | May 07, 2015 | IDSA Comments
Implications of the Taliban’s 2015 Spring Offensive Shifting the centre of gravity of fighting from their traditional strongholds in the South to the northern parts of Afghanistan in this operation is indicative of the Taliban’s shift in... V. Mahalingam | May 06, 2015 | IDSA Comments
Crisis in Yemen: Imperatives for Region and Beyond This Issue Brief examines the various dimensions of the conflict in Yemen and analyses the conflict’s impact on the region and beyond. Meena Singh Roy , M. Mahtab Alam Rizvi , Zaki Zaidi | May 05, 2015 | Issue Brief
Bangladesh: Mayoral Elections unable to resolve Political Deadlock Confrontational politics is not new in Bangladesh. But it seems to have intensified in the last few months, especially after the unofficial main opposition, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), decided... Anand Kumar | May 01, 2015 | IDSA Comments
Diverging Australian and Indian Views on the Indo-Pacific Australia has a vital interest in preventing the Indian Ocean Region from becoming an arena of great power rivalry, including between India and China. The 2013 Defence White Paper clearly... Melissa H. Conley Tyler , Aakriti Bhutoria | May 2015 | Strategic Analysis
Impossible Devolution? The Failure of Power-Sharing Attempts in Sri Lanka The concept of a ‘primordial homeland’ has been at the centre of Sri Lanka’s armed struggle, in which both Sinhalese and Tamil nationalisms have used claims of ancient and ethnically... Thiruni Kelegama | May 2015 | Strategic Analysis
Can Taiwan Talk ‘Political’ with the Mainland? An investigation into the prospects for including political talks in the cross-strait dialogue enables a better assessment of cross-strait relations. China’s push for political talks and Taiwan’s resistance to them... Prashant Kumar Singh | May 2015 | Strategic Analysis
An Assessment of the Chinese Dream: 2015 In November 2012, soon after the conclusion of the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC), President Xi Jinping put forward for the first time the idea... R. S. Kalha | May 2015 | Strategic Analysis
Saudi Arabia: King Salman Faces the 21st Century Since assuming the throne on January 23, 2015 following the death of King Abdullah, Saudi Arabia’s new monarch, King Salman, seems to have set about the task of shaking up... Sandhya Jain | May 2015 | Strategic Analysis
