Maritime Security Trilateralism: India, Sri Lanka and the Maldives India has stepped up its efforts to cooperate on security issues in general and on maritime security in particular with its island neighbours in the Indian Ocean Region (IOR). At... P. K. Ghosh | May 2014 | Strategic Analysis
State, Secularism and Democracy Democracy has spread spontaneously and swiftly in an area of the world generally thought to be immune to political changes: West Asia and North Africa (WANA). An incident of common... Bharat Wariavwalla | May 2014 | Strategic Analysis
Northern Provincial Council: What Does it Mean for Tamil Political Aspiration in the Post-War Context? Elections for the Northern Provincial Council (NPC) of Sri Lanka were held on September 21, 25 years after they were first held in 1988 under the Thirteenth Amendment (13A) to... Smruti S. Pattanaik | May 2014 | Strategic Analysis
China Unplugged! Poised to Reshape the Geopolitics of the Asia-Pacific Within the first year of Xi Jinping’s elevation to the presidency, China has moved further ahead on its path to achieving primacy in the world. In the last week of... Pinaki Bhattacharya | May 2014 | Strategic Analysis
China 2013: One Year Rule of President Xi Jinping—An Assessment It is a matter of widespread belief that on assumption of supreme power, Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s overall ambition was to emerge as an iconic figure in the same league... R. S. Kalha | May 2014 | Strategic Analysis
Revisiting India’s Nuclear Doctrine: Is it Necessary? “Credible minimum deterrence” is the cornerstone of India’s nuclear doctrine. It, used in conjunction with the concepts of “No First Use” (NFU) and “Non Use” against non nuclear weapon states,... Satish Chandra | April 30, 2014 | Issue Brief
Naval symposium in China: Decoding the outcome The Code for Unplanned Encounters at Sea (CUES) is a small but positive sign towards better communication channels between navies to reduce tension in the seas. But for CUES to... Sarabjeet Singh Parmar | April 29, 2014 | IDSA Comments
UNSCR 1540: A decade of existence The success of the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1540 should not make the international community overlook persisting problems. The objective of the 1540 is to internationalise WMD security by... Rajiv Nayan | April 28, 2014 | IDSA Comments
The Indian Navy’s ‘China’ dilemma The naval exercise at Qingdao does not detract from the fact that the India-China maritime relationship is essentially an uneasy one. Each side is uncomfortable with the other’s presence in... Abhijit Singh | April 28, 2014 | IDSA Comments
Geneva agreement on Ukraine: Can it defuse tensions? While the ‘compromise’, as put forth by Russia is a welcome development in so far it helps to diffuse the potential confrontation yet it does raise two pertinent questions: What... Rajorshi Roy | April 24, 2014 | IDSA Comments
