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
Need to Take a More Confident View of Kabul Fears about the Beijing-Rawalpindi axis scripting Kabul politics and thereby causing the complete marginalisation of New Delhi in the region appear far-fetched given the political dynamics of Afghanistan. Vishal Chandra | April 28, 2015 | IDSA Comments
India should rethink its Afghan policy India should continue to play the Afghan game but no longer by showering financial largesse but by deploying its skills of political manoeuvring. P. Stobdan | April 28, 2015 | IDSA Comments
Learning from Beijing; Tackling Delhi’s Air Pollution Challenge India and China could and should cooperate on environmental issues and specifically on clean urbanization because there is scope to develop a shared understanding of the problems and solutions. Avinash Godbole | April 27, 2015 | IDSA Comments
Iran-P5+1 Lausanne Framework: Issues and Challenges This Issue Brief looks back at the implementation of the JPOA and examines the extent to which the recent framework (JCPOA) agreed upon at Lausanne adheres to the letter and... S. Samuel C. Rajiv , G. Balachandran | April 23, 2015 | Issue Brief
