The McMahon Line: A hundred years on On 3rd July 1914 nearly a hundred years ago at Simla, Tibet and India signed the Simla Convention that gave birth to the McMahon Line separating Tibet from India in... R. S. Kalha | July 03, 2014 | IDSA Comments
Takeaways from Defence Minister’s address at Naval Commanders’ Conference The Defence Minister made two significant points: one, the need for making a significant amount of the nation’s resources available for defence and two, he talked about the slow pace... Amit Cowshish | July 01, 2014 | IDSA Comments
Sri Lankan perceptions of the Modi government There is no one nationalist Sri Lankan view. Among the Sinhalas, there are also the liberals who are quite realistic about their assessments and would argue that there may be... Gulbin Sultana | July 01, 2014 | IDSA Comments
Eating Grass: The Making of the Pakistani Bomb by Feroz Hassan Khan Feroz Hassan Khan’s credentials are high considering that he served with the Pakistan army for 32 years with his last assignment as director of arms control and disarmament affairs in... Gautam Sen | July 2014 | Strategic Analysis
A Maritime School of Strategic Thought for Australia—Perspectives, by Justine Jones The epistemology of maritime strategic thought is a subject of growing interest and discussion among maritime analysts today. In a world where national interest is increasingly defined by maritime connectivity... Abhijit Singh | July 2014 | Strategic Analysis
Beyond Strategies: Cultural Dynamics in Asian Connections, by Priya Singh, Suchandana Chatterjee, Anita Sengupta and Arpita Basu Roy Cultural dynamics play an important role in shaping foreign and security policies of nations. This book, a collection of 15 essays, research articles and notes presented at a seminar by... Arvind Gupta | July 2014 | Strategic Analysis
The World through Arab Eyes: Arab Public Opinion and the Reshaping of the Middle East by Shibley Telhami The World through Arab Eyes is a 20-year project based on 10 years of actual public opinion polling in the Arab world by the author. It offers an insightful counterpoint... Melissa Cyrill | July 2014 | Strategic Analysis
Russia’s Arctic Strategies and the Future of the Far North, by Marlene Laruelle Recent literature on the geopolitical consequences of Arctic climate change has been significantly advanced by Marlene Laruelle’s Russia’s Arctic Strategies and the Future of the Far North. In many respects,... Lincoln E. Flake | July 2014 | Strategic Analysis
Contemporary India–China Dynamics: From an Orthodox to an Autonomous Course? This review essay examines the significance of India–China relations against the background of the current phenomenon of a multipolar world in the light of four recent publications on the subject.... Jagannath P. Panda | July 2014 | Strategic Analysis
A Comprehensive Approach to Internet Governance and Cybersecurity The pressing issues around cyberspace revolve around internet governance, cybersecurity and drawing up rules of the road for the new domain of cyberwar. While each of these is at a... Arvind Gupta , Cherian Samuel | July 2014 | Strategic Analysis
