Examining the Prospects of South Korea “Going Nuclear” In the aftermath of recent North Korean actions and threats, there has been in recent times some open debates and discussions about the prospects of South Korea “going nuclear” i.e.... G. Balachandran , Rukmani Gupta | May 01, 2013 | Issue Brief
Significance of Japan-Taiwan Fishery Pact Recently concluded Japan-Taiwan Fishery Pact warrants careful monitoring of the Cross-Strait relations as the pact displeases China. Prashant Kumar Singh | May 01, 2013 | IDSA Comments
The International Ambitions of Mao and Nehru: National Efficacy Beliefs and the Making of Foreign Policy by Andrew Bingham Kennedy India and China represented two of the most dynamic anomalies within the international system during the height of the Cold War era in the 1950s. Both states were considered thus,... Melissa M. Cyrill | May 2013 | Strategic Analysis
Twenty-First Century Sea Power: Cooperation and Conflict at Sea by Peter Dutton, Robert S. Ross and Oystein Tunsjo (eds.) The volume under review is part of the CASS Series on Naval Policy and History edited by the acclaimed maritime affairs expert Professor Geoffrey Till, and is also the 50th... C Uday Bhaskar | May 2013 | Strategic Analysis
Sri Lanka and the Defeat of the LTTE by K.M. de Silva The story of post-colonial Sri Lanka is, in large part, the story of how two groups have interlaced and, in the process, engaged in a 30-year war which saw its... Thiruni Kelegama | May 2013 | Strategic Analysis
Return of a King by William Dalrymple Imperialism never gives on its own will. The all-season historian, William Dalrymple, echoes this message throughout Return of a King. In comparison to his unwavering research on India, which is... Atul K. Thakur | May 2013 | Strategic Analysis
India: A Sacred Geography by Diana L. Eck : Harmony, Random House, New York, 2012, 559 pp., Rs 599, ISBN 978-0-385-34708-2 India: A Sacred Geography by Diana L. Eck is an important contribution to the literature on the processes that have contributed to imagining India long before the age of the... Kalathmika Natarajan | May 2013 | Strategic Analysis
Partition of History in Textbooks in Pakistan: Implications of Selective Memory and Forgetting This article seeks to study the post-partition and especially post-1971 experimentation with history writing in Pakistan and focuses on how the revisiting of the partition has led to a reinvention... Ashok K. Behuria , Mohammad Shehzad | May 2013 | Strategic Analysis
Impact of West Bengal Politics on India–Bangladesh Relations It was expected that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's visit to Dhaka in September 2011 would transform India–Bangladesh relations. However, this did not happen as India could not sign the Teesta... Anand Kumar | May 2013 | Strategic Analysis
India’s Nuclear Limbo and the Fatalism of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Regime, 1974–1983 India's relationship with the nuclear non-proliferation regime deteriorated sharply after its 1974 underground nuclear test which, according to India, was a peaceful nuclear explosion, but which was not accepted as... Jayita Sarkar | May 2013 | Strategic Analysis
