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
Chinese Engagement with the Maldives: Impact on Security Environment in the Indian Ocean Region This article explores the objectives of China's engagement in the Maldives and how the current administration of the country is responding to it. The article also looks at how the... Anand Kumar | March 2012 | Strategic Analysis
The Role of the National Solar Mission in Climate Change Mitigation and the Twin Objective of Energy Security This article outlines the National Solar Mission's role as India's major climate change mitigation policy, arguing that India's National Solar Mission (NSM) was initially conceived to bolster India's position against... Nigel Singh | March 2012 | Strategic Analysis
Can Unconventional Gas Be a Game-Changer for India? The discovery of extracting unconventional (shale) gas through hydraulic fracturing has revolutionised the gas industry in the US and has given rise to a debate over whether it has the... Shebonti Ray Dadwal | March 2012 | Strategic Analysis
Vision for a Secular Pakistan? This article will bring to light the transformation of the Pakistani state from a relatively tolerant to an unstable state dominated by militancy and violence. In the formative phase of... Moonis Ahmar | March 2012 | Strategic Analysis
Pakistan’s Pashtun Challenge: Moving from Confrontation to Integration The Pashtun populations of Afghanistan and Pakistan have long been a source of bilateral contention, with each government inciting Pashtun tribals against the other. Now that the majority of Pashtuns... Robert Boggs | March 2012 | Strategic Analysis
India amidst Increased Activity in the Security Council: A Few Observations Article 1 of the United Nations Charter declares the maintenance of international peace and security to be the primary function of the United Nations. This makes the United Nations Security... Saurabh Mishra | March 2012 | Strategic Analysis
Asymmetric Warfare: A View from India Coined a few years ago, ‘asymmetric warfare’ is an umbrella term that includes insurgent and terrorist campaigns that Western militaries were forced to contend with in the course of external... S. Kalyanaraman | March 2012 | Strategic Analysis
