Tibetans in China: Making Sense of a Visit and Five Appointments The Tibetan issue is primarily a political one and less an economic one as China projects it to be. China should talk to the Tibetan diaspora and India for a... Bijoy Das | March 26, 2013 | Issue Brief
National Dialogue Conference: Key to Peace and Stability in Yemen While it is too early to predict the outcome of the national dialogue process, at present it looks like that the national dialogue, which is endeavouring to bring all the... Prasanta Kumar Pradhan | March 26, 2013 | IDSA Comments
Israel Offers to Reconcile with Turkey: Compulsions and Realities The US may have provided the support and platform for the apology, but it was something Israel had to do desperately as it was finding the developing regional situation difficult... Rajeev Agarwal | March 25, 2013 | IDSA Comments
BRICS Baby Steps: The Challenges Ahead Now that NAM is defunct and very little wealth is left in the Commonwealth, and given that the G-20 has a set parameter and doesn’t encompass the aggregate of the... R N Das | March 22, 2013 | IDSA Comments
The 2013 Assembly Elections in the North-East State Assembly Elections held in Meghalaya, Nagaland and Tripura in February 2013 threw up a clear mandate in favour of the ruling (coalition) parties in Tripura and Nagaland, although a... Shristi Pukhrem | March 22, 2013 | IDSA Comments
Bangladesh: Punish War Criminals but Maintain Law and Order The war crime trials should be taken to their logical conclusion to create a precedent that will discourage the extremist and radical elements. But the government must also act swiftly... Anand Kumar | March 21, 2013 | IDSA Comments
China’s ‘String of pearls’ in Space A ‘pearl’ could be viewed as a sphere of influence seeded, secured and maintained through the use of economic, geopolitical, diplomatic or military means. The ‘string of pearls’ is about... Ajey Lele | March 21, 2013 | IDSA Comments
America’s Asia Strategy in Obama’s Second Term Indian planners would be cautious about an open US embrace as India does not want to be drawn into a US containment policy, which is how China perceives US rebalancing. Arvind Gupta | March 21, 2013 | IDSA Comments
PLA’s Top 10 Exercises in 2012: An Analysis An analysis of these exercises reveals some interesting insights into the People's Liberation Army (PLA) thinking, its priorities, areas of interest and countries of concern. Mandip Singh | March 21, 2013 | IDSA Comments
Why India must vote against Sri Lanka at the UNHRC? India must vote against Sri Lanka in the UNHRC in order to force the latter to set up its own enquiry commission on war crimes, implement the recommendations of the... Smruti S. Pattanaik | March 20, 2013 | IDSA Comments
