Settling differences with China A re-look of the intentions of the Chinese is important because according to long-term economic trends around 2030 Asia will be the world’s powerhouse just as it was prior to... Mukul Sanwal | May 07, 2014 | IDSA Comments
The future of India-Bangladesh ties Amid claims and counter claims, it can not be denied that unabated influx from Bangladesh into the North Eastern states has reached alarming proportion. It is essential that India convey... Rupak Bhattacharjee | May 06, 2014 | IDSA Comments
Lessons from a tragedy: Case of MH 370 There is quite clearly reluctance all around to sharing data or at least in negating the sighting of the airliner on the radar by countries in the region for security... Naval Jagota | May 05, 2014 | IDSA Comments
European Union-Brazil Strategic Partnership The diplomatic relations between European Union and Brazil were established during the 1960. Three aspects largely determine EU-Brazil relations: bilateral aspect, the EU-Mercosur aspect and increasingly after the financial crises... Nachiket Khadkiwala | May 01, 2014 | Backgrounder
Sun Zi and Kautilya: Towards a Comparative Analysis It may be stated at the outset that this essay is essentially an attempt to identify some critical commonalities in the approaches of Sun Zi and Kautilya, the two profound... K. N. Ramachandran | May 2014 | Strategic Analysis
No One’s World: The West, the Rising Rest, and the Coming Global Turn by Charles A. Kupchan Europe and the US have together dominated the world for over 200 years and have shaped the nature of the modern international order through their power and ideas. But they... Saroj Bishoyi | May 2014 | Strategic Analysis
The Dispensable Nation: American Foreign Policy in Retreat by Vali Nasr The Dispensable Nation provides a useful critique of the Obama administration. The author, Vali Nasr, analyses Obama’s foreign policy, especially his approach towards regions afflicted by crises, from the volatile... Yaqoob-ul-Hassan | May 2014 | Strategic Analysis
Facing the Taliban: Experiences of a UN Woman Aid Worker in Taliban Controlled Afghanistan by Anoja Wijeyesekera This book is based on the four years that Anoja Wijeyesekera, the author, spent in Afghanistan as a UNICEF official (November 1997–September 12, 2001) before she and other UNICEF staff... John Gooneratne | May 2014 | Strategic Analysis
Apocalypse Pakistan: An Anatomy of ‘the World’s Most Dangerous Nation’ by Francesca Marino and Beniamino Natale The current state of Pakistan is messy and full of existential contradictions. The nation was built on a separate Muslim identity and on the pretext that in independent and integrated... Atul K. Thakur | May 2014 | Strategic Analysis
Troubling Tehran: Reflections on Geopolitics by Arun Vishwanathan and Rajaram Nagappa (Eds.) The ever dynamic nuclear conundrum of Iran has continued to hog the limelight. Numerous suggestions emanating from varied quarters about how to manage the issue have dominated the ongoing international... Aditi Malhotra | May 2014 | Strategic Analysis
