Does Nuclear Asia have its Own Dangers? There are no properly functioning Asian security institutions or regimes to regulate Asia’s nuclear politics and has to rely on global institutions and regimes for regulation of its nuclear politics... Rajiv Nayan | March 28, 2014 | IDSA Comments
Examining the Maoists’ attacks in Jeeram Ghati Jeeram Ghati area is part of the Maoist's annual Tactical Counter Offensive Campaign. 2014 is a significant year on two counts: one, it is the tenth year of formation of... V.K. Ahluwalia | March 27, 2014 | IDSA Comments
Unshackling the Armed Forces: Need for Greater Delegation of Financial Powers The recommendations of a committee set up in 2009 to review the delegated powers were accepted by the Defence Minister in December 2010 but soon thereafter these were held in... Amit Cowshish | March 25, 2014 | IDSA Comments
UNSC Vote on the Crimean Issue: Why did China Abstain? The reasons for abstention go far beyond the immediate issue at hand and are enveloped in deep Chinese strategic interests. The Chinese leadership is adamant that there can be no... R. S. Kalha | March 21, 2014 | IDSA Comments
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
