Towards A New Asian Order Publisher: Shipra Publications The volume contains contributions by leading Asian analysts and Asia watchers on the theme of prospects for Asian integration. It discusses regionalism at the continental level and investigates overarching trends. It focuses on Asia's 'rise' and the key factors shaping the Asian regional order. The volume also provides valuable perspectives on Asia's sub-regions. Another salient feature of this volume is its coverage of increasingly significant non-traditional issues in the Asian context. ISBN 978-81-7541-615-4 , Price: ?. 995/- E-copy available Jagannath P. Panda , Ali Ahmed , Prashant Kumar Singh | | Book
Space Security: Need for Global Convergence Publisher: Pentagon Press Employment of Space technologies for advancing the nation's social, scientific and economic interests is gaining increasing importance in the 21st century. At the same time Space security, which includes the security of Space assets and the ability to use Space for civilian and security purposes, is also attracting increasing attention. This book is an attempt to analyse the ongoing trends in the Space domain and emphasis the need for India to establish a comprehensive Space strategy. ISBN 9788182746053 Ajey Lele , Arvind Gupta , Amitav Mallik | | Book
Return from the Precipice: Bangladesh’s Fight Against Terrorism Publisher: Pentagon Security International The image of Bangladesh of being a ‘moderate Muslim country’ was tarnished at the turn of the 20th century. The country known for its Sufi Islam was witnessing a spurt of Islamic radicalism. While delineating the threat posed by Islamic radicalism to Bangladeshi politics and by Indian insurgent groups to Northeast India, the book also focuses on their sources of finance. This book marks an advance over other works on the same topic as it discusses the actions taken by the Sheikh Hasina led Awami League government to counter terrorism. ISBN 978-81-8274-697-8, Price: ?. 595/- E-copy available Anand Kumar | | Book
Decoding the International Code of Conduct for Outer Space Activities Publisher: Pentagon Security International Space technologies are critical to diverse human activities including communication, education, navigation, and remote sensing, meteorology disaster management and military. Naturally, keeping the space assets secure has become a major necessity for the states. Any damage to such assets would lead to excruciating consequences. ISBN 978-81-8274-687-9, Price: ?. 695/- E-copy available Ajey Lele | | Book
Japan-China spat over the Senkakus shows no sign of abating To avoid further deterioration in the bilateral relationship, both Japan and China need to now abandon their hard-line stance and stop escalating nationalistic sentiments among their people. Pranamita Baruah | November 14, 2012 | IDSA Comments
India and the Outgoing Chinese Leadership: Change with Continuity A noticeable aspect of the close political relationship between India and China is the fact that in spite of changes in regimes the relationship has continued to grow. R N Das | November 14, 2012 | IDSA Comments
Cut in Defence Budget 2012-13: Prospects and Consequences On the capital side, there may not be much of an adverse impact of reduction in allocation if the MMRCA contract gets pushed to the next year. On the revenue side, procurement of ammunition and other equipment as well as maintenance of legacy systems would be adversely affected. Amit Cowshish | November 14, 2012 | IDSA Comments
Change of Guard in China: The Context and the Actors Due to circumstances prevailing inside and outside China, a lot is expected from the new leaders and thus this leadership change is a vastly important process for China and for the world. Avinash Godbole | November 12, 2012 | IDSA Comments
The Current Talibani Assault on the Pakistani Nation What is worrying is that the Army is clearly abandoning its earlier pretence of readiness to take the Islamic zealots head on and sections of the establishment seem more willing now to be just silent accomplices. P. K. Upadhyay | November 12, 2012 | IDSA Comments
DF-41: China’s answer to the US BMD efforts US efforts to improve and expand its BMD system would degrade Chinese nuclear retaliatory capability thus forcing China to go for a qualitative and quantitative improvement of its nuclear force by deploying more ballistic missiles with MIRV and MARV capability and penetration aids. Arjun Subramanian P | November 12, 2012 | IDSA Comments
