Depoliticising Illegal Immigration from Bangladesh to India With the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led coalition coming to power in India in May 2014, the issue of illegal immigration from Bangladesh has come to the forefront once again. However,... Anand Kumar | January 2015 | Strategic Analysis
India’s ‘Strategic Autonomy’ and the Club Model of Global Governance: Why the Indian BRICS Engagement Warrants a Less Ambiguous Foreign Policy Doctrine India’s global policy strategy is on the verge of major changes. Non-alignment as a cornerstone of foreign policy has become outdated given the power shifts in a multipolar world, especially... Herbert Wulf , Tobias Debiel | January 2015 | Strategic Analysis
Mubarak’s Fall in Egypt: How and Why did it Happen? After nearly 30 years in power, the Hosni Mubarak regime in Egypt, considered by many to be the strongest in the Arab world, collapsed suddenly in February 2011 after a... Kirsten Henderson , Rajat Ganguly | January 2015 | Strategic Analysis
Global Governance Debates and Dilemmas: Emerging Powers’ Perspectives and Roles in Global Trade and Climate Governance The growing international influence of so-called emerging powers has had a major impact on global governance, leading to new challenges for established and emerging powers alike. This contribution outlines the... Sandra Destradi , Cord Jakobeit | January 2015 | Strategic Analysis
The ASEAN Way of Conflict Management in the South China Sea This article examines how the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) conflict management process in the South China Sea (SCS) has been conducted and whether the ASEAN way can effectively... Munmun Majumdar | January 2015 | Strategic Analysis
Maritime Strategies of China and Southeast Asia Maritime security in the Indo-Pacific (or the Indian Ocean–Pacific Ocean continuum) has acquired salience following the shift of the centre of gravity from the Atlantic. It has brought the focus... Udai Bhanu Singh | January 2015 | Strategic Analysis
The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger and a Forgotten Genocide by Gary J. Bass In 2013 two significant books were published dealing with the creation of Bangladesh, one by Srinath Raghavan (1971: A Global History of the Creation of Bangladesh, Permanent Black, Ranikhet) and... Partha S. Ghosh | January 2015 | Strategic Analysis
India as an Asia Pacific Power by David Brewster It is clear that the Asia Pacific is a platform where various actors can be seen playing wide-ranging roles. The United States is considered one of the existing influential powers... Sampa Kundu | January 2015 | Strategic Analysis
Beyond NJ 9842: The Siachen Saga by Nitin A. Gokhale The history of the 20th century has for a long time looked at the inhospitable Russian Tundra in winter as the most hostile battleground that armies could experience. Hitler’s defeat... Arjun Subramaniam | January 2015 | Strategic Analysis
Overcoming Pakistan’s Nuclear Dangers by Mark Fitzpatrick Mark Fitzpatrick’s book Overcoming Pakistan’s Nuclear Dangers makes a courageous attempt in advocating recognition of Pakistan as a ‘normal nuclear state’ (p. 12). The author asserts that the international community... Reshmi Kazi | January 2015 | Strategic Analysis
