India’s Defence Budget 2013-14: A Bumpy Road Ahead A GDP growth of less than seven per cent combined with the fiscal consolidation path that the Finance Minister has articulated in his budget speech means a lot of pressure... Laxman Kumar Behera | March 04, 2013 | IDSA Comments
The Defence Budget 2013-14: Reasonable in the Existing Circumstances but Need for Re-orientation and Reform There is a need for an overhaul of the defence planning and budgeting systems to make them outcome oriented, which will lead to the development and maintenance of requisite capability... Gautam Sen | March 04, 2013 | IDSA Comments
India’s Defence Budget: Trends Beyond the Numbers In the larger scheme of things, fiscal prudence is a good trait and the reduction in deficits desirable, yet an overtly ambitious approach of reducing deficits into a number game... G. Balachandran , Shruti Pandalai | March 04, 2013 | IDSA Comments
Countering Terrorism: The Way Forward A National Counter Terrorism Head needs to be established with the single point authority for all CT activity and with authorization to muster all resources within the country. The authority... V. Mahalingam | March 03, 2013 | IDSA Comments
“We do not need to be told. We do not need to be taught”: Sri Lanka at the 22nd UNHRC, Geneva This year, India needs to be reminded that the situation in Sri Lanka has drastically deteriorated: the GoSL has weakened democracy, dismantled the judiciary and not followed through on any... Thiruni Kelegama | March 01, 2013 | IDSA Comments
Neville Maxwell’s War Neville Maxwell's book, India's China War (Jaico Publishing House, Bombay, 1970) has already been subjected to extensive comments by a number of senior journalists in this country. By and large,... K. Subrahmanyam | March 2013 | Strategic Analysis
Pakistan, Afghanistan and the West by Ahmed Rashid In the recent past, Pakistan has earned the distinction of being the most dangerous place on earth. According to some analysts it is a failed state, while others insist that... Ashish Shukla | March 2013 | Strategic Analysis
Rethinking Class in Russia by Suvi Salmenniemi (ed.) Class is a normatively charged concept rooted in ideas of oppression, exploitation and domination. The collapse of the Soviet Union engendered an unprecedented rise of social inequalities in Russia. Social... Awadhesh Kumar Jha | March 2013 | Strategic Analysis
Russian Energy Security and Foreign Policy by Adrian Dellecker and Thomas Gomart (eds.)London/New York, Routledge, 2011, 256 pp., $135, ISBN 0-203-81673-0 (master e-book), 978-0-415-54733-8 (hbk), 978-0-203-81673-8 (ebk) Russian Energy Security and Forei This book is a collection of essays by eminent scholars focusing on the energy security of Russia and how it plays a dominant role in Russia's foreign policy. The main... Abhimanyu Behera | March 2013 | Strategic Analysis
Vortex of Conflict: US Policy toward Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq by Caldwell Dan The United States is currently facing daunting security challenges in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq. In the midst of a growing domestic economic crisis and anti-Americanism abroad, there is an ongoing... Saroj Bishoyi | March 2013 | Strategic Analysis
