India and the Outgoing Chinese Leadership: Change with Continuity A noticeable aspect of the close political relationship between India and China is the fact that in spite of changes in regimes the relationship has continued to grow. R N Das | November 14, 2012 | IDSA Comments
Cut in Defence Budget 2012-13: Prospects and Consequences On the capital side, there may not be much of an adverse impact of reduction in allocation if the MMRCA contract gets pushed to the next year. On the revenue... Amit Cowshish | November 14, 2012 | IDSA Comments
Change of Guard in China: The Context and the Actors Due to circumstances prevailing inside and outside China, a lot is expected from the new leaders and thus this leadership change is a vastly important process for China and for... Avinash Godbole | November 12, 2012 | IDSA Comments
The Current Talibani Assault on the Pakistani Nation What is worrying is that the Army is clearly abandoning its earlier pretence of readiness to take the Islamic zealots head on and sections of the establishment seem more willing... P. K. Upadhyay | November 12, 2012 | IDSA Comments
DF-41: China’s answer to the US BMD efforts US efforts to improve and expand its BMD system would degrade Chinese nuclear retaliatory capability thus forcing China to go for a qualitative and quantitative improvement of its nuclear force... Arjun Subramanian P | November 12, 2012 | IDSA Comments
Aftermath of Begum Khaleda Zia`s Visit to India The goodwill built up during Khaleda Zia’s recent India visit needs to be capitalised upon judiciously, by keeping a manifestly even-handed stance on the internal politics of Bangladesh. Gautam Sen | November 12, 2012 | IDSA Comments
Iran’s Nuclear Enrichment Programme: Is it the only Threat? At the core of the standoff over Iran’s nuclear programme is the challenge to West Asia’s balance of power from Iran’s growing sphere of influence, which now stretches through Iraq... Rajeev Agarwal | November 09, 2012 | IDSA Comments
Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant and Civil Nuclear Liability The Right of Recourse embedded in the Indian nuclear liability law has ensured that more than four years after the NSG granted exemption to enable nuclear commerce with India, India... G. Balachandran , Kapil Patil | November 09, 2012 | Issue Brief
Chinese Aircraft Industry’s New J-31 Stealth Fighter: Implications for India Instead of inducting another fourth generation aircraft under the MMRCA programme, it may be better to replace the MMRCA with a mix of F-35s and increased numbers of Su-30MKI and... Vivek Kapur | November 09, 2012 | IDSA Comments
A Siachen Resolution: Why Now? India should put Pakistan on parole and watch its behaviour for 20 years before even beginning to think of any concessions in Siachen or elsewhere. Ramesh Phadke | November 08, 2012 | IDSA Comments
