Iraq: Ten Years after the US-Led Invasion The US has spent over a trillion and a half dollars and this huge expenditure has nearly unhinged its domestic economic equilibrium. At the strategic level the results for the... R. S. Kalha | March 20, 2013 | IDSA Comments
Revolution in Nepal: Bolshevik-style? The Baidya-driven radicals want to adopt the party line of the Second National Conference in 2001 when they had decided to supplement their Chinese model of revolution (protracted people’s war)... Post Bahadur Basnet | March 20, 2013 | IDSA Comments
China’s Defence Budget: 2013-14 The PLA has been laying emphasis on human resource management. Recruitment, salaries, living standards, perks and education are likely to get an impetus with attendant advantages of morale, motivation and... Mandip Singh | March 18, 2013 | IDSA Comments
The War Crimes Trial and Forthcoming Elections in Bangladesh Even as it stands firm on the issue of proceeding with the war crimes trials, the Awami League government should not make the mistake of going for an election without... Anand Kumar | March 18, 2013 | IDSA Comments
Coping with the Aftermath of Transgressions in the VVIP Helicopter Deal By now making software development ineligible for discharge of offsets we might be depriving ourselves of what was considered necessary only a couple of months ago. This could also prove... Amit Cowshish | March 13, 2013 | IDSA Comments
Junior Military Leadership in the PLA Today Apparently, serving the PLA is no longer a very attractive option and there seem to be issues of lack of motivation among the new recruits to make the supreme sacrifice. Mandip Singh | March 12, 2013 | IDSA Comments
The Iran-Pakistan Pipeline: Pressler 2.0? The Pakistanis are playing a high-stakes gamble, one in which they think the odds are stacked in their favour in a way that while they stand to gain a lot... Sushant Sareen | March 12, 2013 | IDSA Comments
The Sri Lanka File at the UNHRC: Need for India to Adopt a Balanced and Firm Approach It will be in keeping with the normative principles of India’s foreign policy to support a resolution that does not undermine Sri Lanka’s sovereignty but stipulates a time-bound and monitorable... Gautam Sen | March 12, 2013 | IDSA Comments
India’s Two Years at the Horse-Shoe Table Though its goal of securing a permanent seat in the Council during the 2011-12 term was ambitious, the efforts that it put in over the last two years were steered... Saurabh Mishra , Keerthi Sampath Kumar | March 08, 2013 | Issue Brief
Addressing Pakistan’s Atomisation Nuclear force development is at present an attractive means for Pakistan to attract international political and financial assistance, while salving the paranoias of its security establishment. Improvement in the state-society... Yogesh Joshi , Frank O'Donnell | March 08, 2013 | Issue Brief
