India’s Strategic Articulation: Shift in Thinking In a 4-part series of Policy Papers, P Stobdan analyses India's response to the global shifts and how India’s strategic perception seems to have altered dramatically in the recent years. What it essentially means is that embracing the cold-war perception or adopting any containment strategy is unlikely to be enduring in the longer run. P. Stobdan | November 26, 2013 | Policy Brief
Coastal Security: Time for course correction Five years since the Mumbai terror attacks, the coastal mechanism remains weak. It is time to seriously consider the Indian coast guard as the single authority responsible for coastal security and accordingly amend the charter of the ICG. Pushpita Das | November 26, 2013 | IDSA Comments
Bangladesh: Should Anti-incumbency Outweigh Growth and Stability? The Awami League government may not have done everything right in the last five years, but it has done commendable work by South Asian standards. The Bangladesh economy has grown consistently at about six per cent and the government has done well to contain the extremist forces. Anand Kumar | November 22, 2013 | IDSA Comments
India’s Policy Objectives in Afghanistan India’s interests lie in a peaceful and stable Afghanistan and one of its major policy objectives would be to see the elimination of terrorism from Afghanistan and the destruction of all sanctuaries of the Taliban and the Al Qaeda. Gurmeet Kanwal | November 21, 2013 | IDSA Comments
India’s Relationship with Tanzania The commentary explores the historical relations, evolution of diplomatic ties, economic growth and ideological commonalities between India and Tanzania. Ahana Banerjee | November-December 2013 | Africa Trends
China’s Reactor Sale to Pakistan: The Known Unknowns The reported offer of China to sell 1000 MWe reactors to Pakistan has raised a number of issues. China applied for NSG membership in 2004 only after being satisfied that it can safeguard its nuclear commerce with Pakistan even after joining NSG. It must be clearly understood that China’s application for joining NSG was at the repeated appeals of NSG and not the other way around. G. Balachandran , Kapil Patil | November 15, 2013 | Issue Brief
India-Myanmar Border Problems: Fencing not the only solution In addition to building a 10-km fence along its border with Myanmar, India should strengthen the security of the border by deploying adequate guarding forces, revise the FMR and constructively engage with Myanmar to prevent the cross-border movement of insurgents and traffickers. Pushpita Das | November 15, 2013 | IDSA Comments
Asian Strategic Review 2013 Publisher: Pentagon Press It would not be a cliche to describe the strategic contours of Asia as being at the crossroads of history. A number of significant events are influencing the likely course that the collective destiny of the region could possibly take in the future. Some of the key issues and trends have been analysed in this year’s Asian Strategic Review ISBN ISBN 978-81-8274-719-7, Price: ₹ 1295/- E-copy available S. D. Muni , Vivek Chadha | | Book
Asian Space Race: Rhetoric or Reality? Publisher: Springer This book explores the character and contours of the Asian Space Powers. At present, Asian states like China, Japan and India are found investing in space technologies with analogous social and scientific and probably with divergent military intents. Other Asian states like Israel, South Korea and Malaysia are also making investments in the space arena. States like Iran and North Korea are faulted for using space launches as a demonstrative tool to achieve strategic objectives. This work examines this entire maze of activities to unearth where these states are making these investments to accomplish their state-specific goal or are they also trying to surpass each other by engaging in competition. ISBN 978-81-322-0732-0, Price: 129,95 € Ajey Lele | | Book
India’s Neighbourhood: The Armies of South Asia Publisher: Pentagon Press This book is an attempt to examine the role, relevance and status of the armies in the ever dynamic socio-political milieu of the countries in India’s South Asian neighbourhood. The book deals with the national armies of seven South Asian countries bordering India, namely Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, Maldives, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. The contributors to the volume also trace out the likely trajectory of the future role and position of the armies in the given or evolving national and geo-political settings. ISBN 978-81-8274-706-0, Price: ₹ 795/- E-copy available Vishal Chandra | | Book
