Defence Budget 2015-16: The Bad, the Worse and the Good The bad news in this year’s defence budget is that it does not recognise that things are not going in the right direction but only the beaten track. And the... Vinay Kaushal | March 02, 2015 | IDSA Comments
Difficulties of Regional Cooperation for Afghanistan: An Alternative Interpretation This article addresses the question of why regional cooperation among Afghanistan’s neighbours has been so difficult despite these countries’ common concerns. To answer this question, Afghanistan is conceptualised as placed... Sandra Destradi | March 2015 | Strategic Analysis
Russia, Turkey, and Iran: Moving Towards Strategic Synergy in the Middle East? This article aims to delve into the patterns of convergence and divergence of interests among three key regional players in the Middle East: the Russian Federation, Turkey and Iran. Hossein Aghaie Joobani , Mostafa Mousavipour | March 2015 | Strategic Analysis
Anatomy of Political Atrophy in Thailand With the take-over of power by the military on May 22, 2014, under General Prayuth Chan-O-Cha, the chief of army, Thailand has gone full circle in coup d’états, from democratic... Baladas Ghoshal | March 2015 | Strategic Analysis
India–US Ties: Reviewing the Relationship Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Washington and a summit meeting with President Barack Obama re-energised a relationship that was widely perceived to be moving towards a dead end. During... Chintamani Mahapatra | March 2015 | Strategic Analysis
Israel–Gaza Crisis: Understanding the War Crimes Debate The long conflict between Israel and Palestine took a turn for the worse after the kidnapping and killing of three Israeli teenagers in June 2014. G. Balachandran , Aakriti Sethi | March 2015 | Strategic Analysis
The ‘Sir Creek’ Dispute: Contours, Implications and the Way Ahead Sir Creek, the 17th and last drainage branch of the river Indus, is a meandering riverine feature approximately 92 km (50 NM) long in the low-lying marshy region of Rann... Raghavendra Mishra | March 2015 | Strategic Analysis
Future of India–Nepal Relations: Is China a Factor? Nepal shares an open border of 1,868 km with five Indian states (Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal and Sikkim) and 1,415 km with Tibet. Under the 1950 Treaty of... Arun Kumar Sahu | March 2015 | Strategic Analysis
Chronicling the India–China Puzzle China and India are the emerging economies in Asia and are in close geographical proximity to each other. What makes this relationship complicated is the fact that India and China... Gunjan Singh | March 2015 | Strategic Analysis
India’s Military Conflicts and Diplomacy: An Inside View of Decision Making by General V.P. Malik India’s 11th Five Year Defence Plan was completed on March 31, 2012. Throughout its currency, the plan did not receive the approval of the Union Cabinet. The ongoing 12th Defence... Gurmeet Kanwal | March 2015 | Strategic Analysis
