Future of India–China Boundary: Leadership Holds the Key? Will India and China resolve their boundary dispute during the tenure of Narendra Modi and Xi Jinping? The strategic communities in both countries are optimistic, particularly after the high tension... Jagannath P. Panda | May 2015 | Strategic Analysis
China’s ‘Maritime Bases’ in the IOR: A Chronicle of Dominance Foretold After a successful visit by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Colombo in March, Indian policy elite are hopeful that the new Sri Lankan government will roll-back some of the geopolitical... Abhijit Singh | May 2015 | Strategic Analysis
China’s Asia Strategy under President Xi Jinping China has reoriented its foreign policy strategy since Xi Jinping became president. This could significantly recast China’s relations with Asian countries. The process that began with Xi Jinping’s coming to... Avinash Godbole | May 2015 | Strategic Analysis
Visas: How They Work—An India–Bangladesh Case Study A visa is issued to facilitate an individual’s travel to another country in a regulated way. There are agreements between some countries on a no-visa regime; however, most countries do... Sandeep Chakravorty , Sumit Chaturvedi | May 2015 | Strategic Analysis
Army: The Be-All or End-All of Pakistan Politics? Witness to three fully fledged coups, Pakistan’s beleaguered political history has been consistently punctured with prolonged stints of military rule. Although a democratic state in principle, it is the episodic... Priyanka Singh | May 2015 | Strategic Analysis
Jonathan Matusitz, Symbolism in Terrorism: Motivation, Communication, and Behavior, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Maryland, 2014 Symbolism in Terrorism: Motivation, Communication, and Behavior explores an important but under-represented aspect of terrorism: the meanings of both physical and non-physical symbols in terrorism, and how culture, belief systems... Updesh Kumar | May 2015 | Strategic Analysis
Vanda Felbab-Brown, Aspiration and Ambivalence: Strategies and Realities of Counterinsurgency and State Building in Afghanistan, Brookings Institution Press, Washington, DC After 13 years of international engagement, political and security scenarios appear to be uncertain in Afghanistan. The unity government formed through a power-sharing agreement between Ashraf Ghani and Abdullah Abdullah... Dinoj K. Upadhyay | May 2015 | Strategic Analysis
Rajat Kathuria and Sanjana Joshi (eds.), Forty Years of India–Korea Relations and Looking Ahead, Academic Foundation, New Delhi, 2014 The year 2013 marked the 40th anniversary of the establishment of the diplomatic relationship between India and South Korea. Even though during the Cold War, India–South Korea relations had to... Pranamita Baruah | May 2015 | Strategic Analysis
Alan J. Kuperman, Nuclear Terrorism and Global Nuclear Security: The Challenge of Phasing out Highly Enriched Uranium, Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon, 2013 Alan J. Kuperman’s edited volume Nuclear Terrorism and Global Nuclear Security: The Challenge of Phasing out Highly Enriched Uranium explores the prospects and challenges involved in the process of global... Reshmi Kazi | May 2015 | Strategic Analysis
Emerging Need for Nepali Ecological Task Force (ETF) Units Nepal should raise Ecological Task Force (ETF) units to assist in tasks related to ecological reconstruction. P. K. Gautam | April 29, 2015 | IDSA Comments
