The US–India Nuclear Pact: Policy, Process and Great Power Politics by Harsh V. Pant The Indo-US nuclear deal not only opened the gates of international nuclear trade for India, but it also showed that India was ready to take its rightful place among the... Yogesh Joshi | March 2012 | Strategic Analysis
Nuclear Weapons and Conflict Transformation: The Case of India–Pakistan by Saira Khan There are many volumes on conflict resolution and nuclear proliferation. While the conflict scholarship focuses on management, resolution and transformation of conflicts, the proliferation scholarship examines why states acquire nuclear... Zafar Khan | March 2012 | Strategic Analysis
Political Islam: A Critical Reader by Frederic Volpi At the dawn of the 21st century, political Islam has become an influential religious and social force in many post-colonial states, from North Africa to South East Asia. In the... Babjee Pothuraju | March 2012 | Strategic Analysis
Maoist and Other Armed Conflicts by Anuradha Mitra Chenoy and Kamal Mitra Chenoy In one of the most well-written and extensively researched books on the subject, Anuradha Chenoy and Kamal Mitra Chenoy attempt to holistically examine the state of armed conflicts in India.... Vineet Thakur | March 2012 | Strategic Analysis
A Metahistory of the Clash of Civilisations: Us and Them Beyond Orientalism by Arshin Adib-Moghaddam Arshin Adib-Moghaddam is Reader in Comparative Politics and International Relations at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Born to Iranian parents in Istanbul, he grew up... Ali Ahmed | March 2012 | Strategic Analysis
Underdogs End Empires: A Memoir by I.P. Khosla Ambassador I.P. Khosla, the author of the book Underdogs End Empires: A Memoir, started his career in the Indian Foreign Service in 1960 and retired in 1996. Holding important positions,... Padmaja Murthy | March 2012 | Strategic Analysis
To Stop Iran Getting the Bomb, Must We Learn to Live with Its Nuclear Capability? The latest report of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on Iran's alleged nuclear weapons programme, released on November 8, 2011, has effectively raised the global threat level. The agency... Ramesh Thakur | March 2012 | Strategic Analysis
Emergent Micro-National Communities: The Logic of Kuki-Chin Armed Struggle in Manipur The granting of scheduled tribe status to the Kuki-Chin people eroded their allegiance to clan and linguistic/dialectal identities. While they do not have any problem with a pan-ethnic identity, their... S. Thangboi Zou | March 2012 | Strategic Analysis
Political Integration of Northeast India: A Historical Analysis Most nation-states in Asia and Africa that gained independence from colonial rulers during the middle of the 20th century are diverse in their ethnic composition. The national governments make efforts... Thongkholal Haokip | March 2012 | Strategic Analysis
Somali Piracy: A Form of Economic Terrorism Piracy over the years has been driven by geography, political instability and the availability of safe havens. Apart from these established factors, economics too play a role. This article reviews... Sarabjeet Singh Parmar | March 2012 | Strategic Analysis
