Space Security: Need for Global Convergence Publisher: Pentagon Press Employment of Space technologies for advancing the nation's social, scientific and economic interests is gaining increasing importance in the 21st century. At the same time Space security,... Ajey Lele , Arvind Gupta , Amitav Mallik | | Book
Return from the Precipice: Bangladesh’s Fight Against Terrorism Publisher: Pentagon Security International The image of Bangladesh of being a ‘moderate Muslim country’ was tarnished at the turn of the 20th century. The country known for its Sufi Islam... Anand Kumar | | Book
Decoding the International Code of Conduct for Outer Space Activities Publisher: Pentagon Security International Space technologies are critical to diverse human activities including communication, education, navigation, and remote sensing, meteorology disaster management and military. Naturally, keeping the space assets secure... Ajey Lele | | Book
Japan-China spat over the Senkakus shows no sign of abating To avoid further deterioration in the bilateral relationship, both Japan and China need to now abandon their hard-line stance and stop escalating nationalistic sentiments among their people. Pranamita Baruah | November 14, 2012 | IDSA Comments
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