Malaysia–India Defence Cooperation: Need for a Paradigm Shift before Strategic Partnership The objective of this article is to discuss defence cooperation between Malaysia and India in the post-Cold War era (1991–2012), mainly from Malaysia’s perspective. The article is divided into four... Suseela Devi Chandran | January 2014 | Strategic Analysis
India’s South Asia Dilemma and Regional Cooperation: Relevance of Cultural Diplomacy This article highlights the current relevance of cultural diplomacy not as a panacea for the problems in India’s relations with its South Asian neighbours but as a way of dealing... Rabindra Sen | January 2014 | Strategic Analysis
Factoring the RCEP and the TPP: China, India and the Politics of Regional Integration The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) and the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) are not necessarily two contending trade liberalising models, but their import and arrival have posed stiff political challenges for... Jagannath P. Panda | January 2014 | Strategic Analysis
Federalising India’s Neighbourhood Policy: Making the States Stakeholders The politics of coalition has posed new challenges to India’s foreign policy. This problem becomes particularly evident in India’s neighbourhood, which inevitably becomes intertwined with domestic politics. The rise of... Smruti S. Pattanaik | January 2014 | Strategic Analysis
Beyond the Indo-Naga Talks: Some Reflections More than 16 years have passed since the government and the National Socialist Council of Nagalim (Isak-Muivah faction, or NSCN(IM)) Thangkhanlal Ngaihte | January 2014 | Strategic Analysis
Dalai Lama Central to Resolution of the Tibet Issue Since June 2013, there has been a spate of activity on the Tibet controversy. Sparking it off was the interview of Professor Jin Wei1 from the Central Party School in... Dolma Tsering | January 2014 | Strategic Analysis
Elections in Pakistan: Perspectives from Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir In the run-up to the May 2013 elections, the political scene in Pakistan was absorbed in electoral rhetoric, active campaigning and a hectic poll process. It culminated with an expected... Priyanka Singh | January 2014 | Strategic Analysis
Interventionism and Human Security The conflict in Syria is inexorably turning into a quagmire as more entities get dragged into the sludge. From a hands-off policy to one of humanitarian support, the West has... Manmohan Bahadur | January 2014 | Strategic Analysis
Politics, Security and Nuclear Abolition: Beyond the Idealist Rhetoric Disarmament and non-proliferation are rightfully viewed as two sides of the same coin: the two imperatives that need to be met if the prospect of the complete elimination of nuclear... Dimitrios Machairas | January 2014 | Strategic Analysis
A Year-end Security Review of Southern Asia It has been a year of unstable regional security with the endless conflict in Afghanistan, Pakistan’s half-hearted struggle against the remnants of the al Qaeda, Sri Lanka’s inability to find... Gurmeet Kanwal | December 31, 2013 | IDSA Comments
