Capital Acquisition Budget: Factors Affecting its Utilization It is almost customary to blame underutilization of the capital acquisition budget on defective planning, apathy of the civilian bureaucracy and procedural complexities. This view, however, does not take into... Amit Cowshish | December 26, 2012 | IDSA Comments
Chinese Aerial Patrols Over Senkaku Islands China’s escalation of the Senkaku ownership dispute by commencing air patrols over the islands by OSA aircraft has the potential to trigger a war between China and Japan. Vivek Kapur | December 24, 2012 | Issue Brief
The Signs of Change in Syria Signals from Russia, China and even Iran that it is time for Assad to go combined with domestic dissensions and defections signal that the regime is finally cracking up. Rajeev Agarwal | December 24, 2012 | IDSA Comments
Sino-Indian Relations: Are Trade Issues Likely To Cause Even More Problems? The Indian political class should seriously ponder without engaging in fruitless ideological debates – for we may be leaving ourselves with no choice – whether to acquiesce to a China-dominated... R. S. Kalha | December 24, 2012 | IDSA Comments
The Challenges Before Shinzo Abe Rebuilding Japan’s foreign policy will be another challenge for the Abe Administration, especially in view of the rising tension between Japan and its neighbouring states - China and South Korea... Pranamita Baruah | December 20, 2012 | IDSA Comments
Update on India’s Membership of Multilateral Export Controls Regimes Both the government as well and the strategic community are convinced that India must not join the Australia Group without a road map for the MTCR and the NSG. Rajiv Nayan | December 19, 2012 | IDSA Comments
Ballistic Missile Proliferation: Implications for India To counter the consequences flowing from growing ballistic missile proliferation in its neighbourhood, India must expand its BMD programme to include boost phase and mid-course phase intercept capability. Vivek Kapur | December 19, 2012 | IDSA Comments
The Return of Shinzo Abe as Japan’s new PM: What does it mean for India? With China increasingly wary of the developments taking place on its Pacific seaboard, it would perhaps be in a much better frame of mind to listen to Indian concerns. R. S. Kalha | December 19, 2012 | IDSA Comments
The Existing Biological Threat: Evaluating the Seventh Review Conference of the BTWC Bio terrorism is emerging more as possibility in the 21st century not only because of the changing nature of terrorism but also because of rapid growth in life sciences. These... Ajey Lele , Gunjan Singh | | Occasional Papers
Iran’s Nuclear Imbroglio at The Crossroads: Policy Options For India On account of pertinent international, regional and domestic dynamics, the Iranian nuclear imbroglio is at uncertain crossroads. There are however reasons for optimism. This is because of Iran’s continuing engagement... S. Samuel C. Rajiv | | Occasional Papers
