Australia in the Asian Century: Australian Government’s White Paper, Strong and Secure: A Strategy for Australia’s National Security As Asia rises and the centre of gravity of strategic affairs shifts to the Asia Pacific, the Australian government is getting ready to exploit new opportunities and gear up to... Arvind Gupta | July 2013 | Strategic Analysis
Indigenous Rights, Sovereignty and Resource Governance in the Arctic While oil and gas industries are already well established in Siberia and Alaska, the melting of the Arctic ice cap is opening up new areas of the High North to... Åshild Kolås | July 2013 | Strategic Analysis
Sailing through the Northern Sea Route: Opportunities and Challenges Because of global warming, the thinning ice in the Arctic is opening up the region for navigation for a few months in the summer season. The Arctic littoral countries (Canada,... V Sakhuja | July 2013 | Strategic Analysis
Sovereignty is the Key to Russia’s Arctic Policy It was the privately-sponsored Russian expedition to the North Pole in August 2007 that opened a new competitive era in Arctic geopolitics, and the technologically elegant PR-trick with planting the... Pavel K. Baev | July 2013 | Strategic Analysis
The Barents Cooperation: Region-Building and New Security Challenges The Barents Euro–Arctic Region (BEAR), which in terms of land territory is one of the biggest international region-building projects in Europe, was established in 1993 to meet the new security... Rune Rafaelsen | July 2013 | Strategic Analysis
The Arctic: Potential for Conflict amidst Cooperation Changes in the Arctic topography due to climate change have resulted in the region, which erstwhile was remote with little accessibility, to being accessible with potential natural resources and attractive... Sarabjeet Singh Parmar | July 2013 | Strategic Analysis
The Promise of Involvement: Asia in the Arctic In late 2012, the first liquefied natural gas tanker to sail through the Northern Sea Route reached its destination in Japan, carrying gas from a Euro–Arctic offshore field. Only months... Olav Schram Stokke | July 2013 | Strategic Analysis
Reincarnation Under Stress: The Dalai Lama’s Succession and India–China Relations The article seeks to assess the evolution of the Tibet question against the backdrop of the problems associated with the succession of the Dalai Lama. It also discusses the implications... Adrien Frossard | July 2013 | Strategic Analysis
Left-Wing Extremism and Counterinsurgency in India: The ‘Andhra Model’ India has a long history of left-wing extremism. The largest and most powerful left-wing extremist group today is the Communist Party of India (CPI) (Maoist), which is active in many... Arijit Mazumadar | July 2013 | Strategic Analysis
Defence Offsets: A System-Level View How effective are offsets as a means to boost a domestic defence industry? This article takes a novel approach to answering this question; examining global data on levels of defence... Joanna Spear | July 2013 | Strategic Analysis
