Crimean crisis: A New Phase of Cold War? Putin seems to have concluded that Russia must draw the line at Ukraine. The EU bid to sign trade agreement with Ukraine in December drew Russia’s ire and now Russia... Arvind Gupta | March 21, 2014 | IDSA Comments
Chess Game over Crimea The West will be compelled by their own threats to impose economic sanctions against Russia. But Russia is no Iraq or Iran and may very well retaliate against Western companies,... K. P. Fabian | March 20, 2014 | IDSA Comments
RFI for the Basic Trainer Aircraft: New Ray of Hope for the Indian industry It is difficult to understand why the MoD should bind itself by asking for request for information (RFI) that cannot be compared across all the proposals. What would constitute ‘capability’... Amit Cowshish | March 19, 2014 | IDSA Comments
China at your doorstep: Looking east from India’s northeast Myanmar and India have followed separate political paths only to find it converging in recent times. Myanmar’s other neighbour China has had a much larger footprint in the country. India... Namrata Goswami | March 18, 2014 | Issue Brief
India-China relations: Visa issue Since China has now become an important location for international sports events, sportspersons from Arunachal Pradesh, who want to participate in such events, are not able to do so because... R N Das | March 18, 2014 | IDSA Comments
Offsets Facilitation Cell: Optimizing its Potential On Feb 14, 2014, MoD issued an office memorandum about operationalization of a Offsets Facilitation Cell. This is the perhaps the first positive step in a long time and the... Amit Cowshish | March 14, 2014 | IDSA Comments
The issue of de-militarisation of Northern Province of Sri Lanka De-militarisation per se is a sensitive issue, however, it is of essence that the Sri Lanka armed forces` role vis-à-vis the provincial administrations or even in the larger island-nation context... Gautam Sen | March 13, 2014 | IDSA Comments
Early Trends in Afghan Elections: Abdullah Leads the Show According to a poll survey, 29 per cent supported the candidacy of Ashraf Ghani, a former World Bank expert, who is one among the three probable candidates President Karzai is... Ashok K. Behuria , Abhimanyu Singh | March 12, 2014 | IDSA Comments
Why Pakistan cannot defeat the Taliban The simple truth that has eluded Pakistan is that fighting the Taliban is like fighting a shadow. The Taliban are but a symptom, the real problem is of religious extremism... Sushant Sareen | March 10, 2014 | IDSA Comments
Crimea: Thaw in Tensions? While President Putin has conveyed the message of tough military action, it is highly unlikely that he will order his troops to invade the majority ethnic Russian region of Crimea.... Rajorshi Roy | March 07, 2014 | IDSA Comments
