Challenging Stereotypes: Reinventing the national discourse on the North East If the larger goal is to understand the challenges of the North East, it would require a strong national narrative which reconciles its many identities and adds to the peace... Shruti Pandalai | May 16, 2014 | IDSA Comments
CPI (Maoist) and Urban Movement The Urban Movement has a defined role in the political strategy and military strategy of the CPI (Maoist). In the Maoist schemes, Urban Movement is to broadly to mobilise and... P. V. Ramana | May 12, 2014 | IDSA Comments
National Investigation Agency: Do states have right to reject? The NIA was established in a concurrent jurisdiction framework, with provisions for taking up specific cases under specific Acts for investigation and prosecution. The NIA may be seen to conflict... N. Manoharan | May 12, 2014 | IDSA Comments
Bodo violence: Contest for power and territory It is imperative that the government immigration agencies generate reliable verified data on the number of people coming in from Bangladesh into Assam. It is also the government’s constitutional obligation... Namrata Goswami | May 09, 2014 | IDSA Comments
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
