‘Arab Spring’: Implications for India As India–Gulf relationship is taking an upward trajectory, and India’s stakes and interests are growing with time, it is time for India to adopt a formally articulated “Look West Policy”... MP-IDSA | January 02, 2014 | Policy Brief
Indo-Pak DGsMO Meeting: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back Shorn of its rhetoric, the only tangible outcome discernible from the joint statement is the agreement on staging two flag meetings at the LoC. In fact, there are some questions... Amit Cowshish | January 02, 2014 | IDSA Comments
Permanent Chairman Chiefs of Staff Committee: Should the appointment be delayed further? Though the general elections are due this year, the need of the hour is to build a political consensus on the issue without further delay. It will be to the... Vijai Singh Rana | January 02, 2014 | IDSA Comments
Strategic Himalayas: Republican Nepal and External Powers Publisher: Pentagon Press The ten years of Maoist insurgency followed by the political vacuum after the abolition of the monarchy and the delay in the drafting of the Constitution has... Nihar R. Nayak | | Book
Stability and Growth in South Asia Publisher: Pentagon Press This book examines the forces and processes which have led to relative political stability or unleashed trends in that direction in some countries of South Asia. It... Sumita Kumar | | Book
The Arab Uprising: The Unfinished Revolutions of the New Middle East by Marc Lynch Tunisia’s Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali was the first to fall to the thundering protests in that country in early 2010. Within a month, Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak was forced out of... Princy Marin George | January 2014 | Strategic Analysis
China’s Nightmare, America’s Dream: India as the Next Global Power by William H. Avery The rise of Asia, particularly China and India, is a significant development in the early 21st century. In the last three decades, China has transformed itself from an agricultural economy... Saroj Bishoyi | January 2014 | Strategic Analysis
Confronting the Bomb: Pakistani and Indian Scientists Speak Out by Pervez Hoodbhoy (ed.) Eminent nuclear physicist Pervez Hoodbhoy and his co-authors in the seminal volume Confronting the Bomb: Pakistani and Indian Scientists Speak Out have defied the age-old perspective that nuclear weapons are the ultimate... Reshmi Kazi | January 2014 | Strategic Analysis
Never Forget National Humiliation: Historical Memory in Chinese Politics and Foreign Relations by Zheng Wang Scholars studying China are quite familiar with themes like national humiliation, nationalism as a new source of regime legitimacy vis-à-vis communism, and China’s anti-US and anti-Japan polemic. Zheng Wang’s book... Prashant Kumar Singh | January 2014 | Strategic Analysis
Religion and Politics in South Asia by Ali Riaz (ed.) In the post-colonial era, religion has emerged as a powerful political force in South Asia. The key question that emerges is: how and why did religion become this potent political... Md. Mizanur Rahman | January 2014 | Strategic Analysis
