Japan’s white paper on defence: An overview The dominant challenges for Japan apart from China remain North Korea. The document expresses concerns on the launching of multiple ballistic missiles towards the Sea of Japan along with the... Naval Jagota | September 01, 2014 | IDSA Comments
India’s Revised Defence FDI Policy Under the earlier policy, the foreign portfolio investment in Indian defence industry was either banned, or capped at an arbitrary level for certain companies, causing a lot of dissatisfaction among... Laxman Kumar Behera | September 01, 2014 | IDSA Comments
Kautilya: The True Founder of Economics by Balbir Singh Sihag Kautilya: The True Founder of Economics is a unique contribution to the subject of Kautilya’s Arthashastra (KA). Arthashastradiscusses at length governance, diplomacy, military science and political economy.1 However, never has... Divya Malhotra | September 2014 | Strategic Analysis
China and the Environment: The Green Revolution by Sam Geall (ed.) Propelled by its rapid economic growth, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) is undergoing multitudes of transitions simultaneously. These transitions are substantially transforming state–society relations in China. The conventional wisdom... Avinash Godbole | September 2014 | Strategic Analysis
India at Risk: Mistakes, Misconceptions and Misadventures of Security Policy by Jaswant Singh This is Jaswant Singh’s eleventh known book, and here he keeps his focus on experiences rather than rhetoric to deal with the complex design of India’s security challenges. While relying... Atul K. Thakur | September 2014 | Strategic Analysis
Deterrence Stability and Escalation Control in South Asia by Michael Krepon and Julia Thompson (eds.) Ever since India and Pakistan went overtly nuclear in 1998, a plethora of studies by scholars, both from the subcontinent and outside, have pondered the issues of ‘deterrence stability’ and... Sitakanta Mishra | September 2014 | Strategic Analysis
India and the Republic of Korea: Engaged Democracies by Skand R. Tayal At a time when the Republic of Korea (South Korea) occupies considerable space in India’s foreign policy, particularly in its ‘look east’ policy, it is incongruous that there is no... Rup Narayan Das | September 2014 | Strategic Analysis
India and the Allied Occupation of Japan 1945–52 by T.R. Sareen Relying on a wide range of archival material, the author draws our attention in this thoughtful book to the lesser known yet rich historical dimension of India–Japan relations. He investigates... Arvind Gupta | September 2014 | Strategic Analysis
Peace is not possible and war is not an option! Should we still be ‘talking up’ non-traditional security? Three verities appear to underwrite contemporary environmentalism. We live in an interdependent world. The earth is fragile. And good science is our best bet to ‘save’ the planet. When strung... Rohan D’Souza | September 2014 | Strategic Analysis
Chanakya: An Empiricist as a Philosopher At the outset, it is important to put on record the epistemological root of the reading of Chanakya’s Arthashastra applicable to this commentary. The main text is from the translated... Pinak Chakravarty | September 2014 | Strategic Analysis
