Prime Minister’s Visit to Moscow: Need to Revitalise the India-Russia Partnership India-Russia ties will continue to be mutually beneficial. While defence cooperation remains the mainstay, the two countries can explore common synergies in co-developing more weapons platforms with cutting edge technology... Rajorshi Roy | October 21, 2013 | IDSA Comments
PM’s Visit to Russia and China: Need for Smart Diplomacy Clubbing the visits to Russia and China is a smart move. But the prime minister will also need to indulge in smart diplomacy to deal with a number of ticklish... Arvind Gupta | October 21, 2013 | IDSA Comments
Maritime Security in the Indian Ocean: A Changing Kaleidoscope The Indian Ocean Region (IOR), though considered an important maritime region, has not yet been accorded the due importance of a geo-strategic entity. One attributable reason is the ‘sandwiching’ of... Sarabjeet Singh Parmar | October 2013 | Journal of Defence Studies
Syria and the OPCW: Taking a Stock of the Situation The joint OPCW-UN team mandated to assist Syria with the elimination of its chemical weapon programme by mid-2014 may not be realistic. As in the case of Russia and the... Sudarshan Bhutani | October 17, 2013 | Issue Brief
US-India Defence Technologies for Transfer: Cultural Change India-US defence ties are shifting away from a ‘buyer-seller’ path to one of co- development and co-production. In Washington this is viewed as a change from a ‘culture of presumptive... Vivek Kapur | October 15, 2013 | IDSA Comments
India and Central Asia: Need for a Pro-active Approach India has traditionally attached great importance to its relations with Central Asia. But, unfortunately, the relationship faces several constraints including the lack of direct access to Central Asia; the unstable... Arvind Gupta | October 14, 2013 | Policy Brief
India-Australia Maritime Cooperation: Raising the Pitch Both India and Australia are trying hard to shed their traditional reticence and engage in the maritime domain, with both sides agreeing to a drastic overhaul of the existing exchanges. Abhijit Singh | October 14, 2013 | IDSA Comments
China’s ‘Three Warfares’ and India For the past decade, China is known to have actively used ‘three warfares’ (3Ws) strategy—media, psychological and legal warfare—to weaken its adversaries in regions constituting what it perceives to be... Abhijit Singh | October 2013 | Journal of Defence Studies
The Rational Believer: Choices and Decisions in Madrasas of Pakistan, by Masooda Bano The Rational Believer is a result of three years of research and field trips in Pakistan by the author and examines the post-9/11 image of madrasas in Pakistan. The findings... Y.M. Bammi | October 2013 | Journal of Defence Studies
Hinduism and the Ethics of Warfare in South Asia: From Antiquity to the Present, by Kaushik Roy In the academic field of modern history studies, historians dealing with South Asia largely neglect the historical evolution of military–strategic thought on the Indian subcontinent. It is also true that,... Jean Langlois-Berthelot | October 2013 | Journal of Defence Studies
