Beyond the Indus Water Treaty: A Perspective on Kashmir’s “Power” Woes At the core of the Kashmiri discourse on the shortage of power is the distribution of water resources that was agreed to between India and Pakistan through the instrumentality of... Arpita Anant | February 02, 2012 | IDSA Comments
Myanmar’s Critical Role in Bolstering India’s Look East Policy Cooperation with India will help natural resources-rich Myanmar develop its true potential. And cooperation with Myanmar will help India transform the North-East, bolster its Look East Policy, and help it... Arvind Gupta | February 02, 2012 | IDSA Comments
Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Committee Report: A Valuable Process than an End Product The value of Report of the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Committee lies more in the process it created and the multiple narratives it brought in from the periphery rather than... Amali Wedagedara | February 01, 2012 | Issue Brief
Cheru, Fantu and Cyril Obi (eds.), The Rise of China & India in Africa: Challenges Africa and Asia have a long history of politico- economic relations and the scale and pace of trade and investment flows has been growing in recent times. African countries are... Babjee Pothuraju | February 2012 | Africa Trends
Cheru, Fantu and Cyril Obi (eds.), The Rise of China & India in Africa: Challenges Africa and Asia have a long history of politico- economic relations and the scale and pace of trade and investment flows has been growing in recent times. African countries are... Babjee Pothuraju | February 2012 | Africa Trends
Maoists understand the limitations of Mine Proof Vehicles After a systematic study of the MPV deployed in anti-Maoist operations, the Maoists have come to the conclusion that “There is no such thing as a mine proof vehicle”. P. V. Ramana | January 30, 2012 | IDSA Comments
EU Oil embargo on Iran—China is now the pivot All China has to do is to purchase Iranian oil and off-set this against a supply of essential consumer goods from China to Iran and settle the accounts in Chinese... R. S. Kalha | January 30, 2012 | IDSA Comments
Private Sector Participation in Defence Production: Industrial Licensing and FDI Issues Notwithstanding positive developments over the last decade, certain grey areas in industrial licensing and FDI policy need further improvement to facilitate the private sector’s more meaningful participation in the Indian... Laxman Kumar Behera | January 27, 2012 | IDSA Comments
How Accurate is the NTI Nuclear Materials Security Index? While the project that produced the Report engaged some credible scholars from western universities and elsewhere, but the control and leadership exercised on the project by known non-proliferation activists may... Rajiv Nayan , Ch. Viyyanna Sastry | January 24, 2012 | IDSA Comments
The New Year Saga: China Dampens Tibetan’s Celebration The Chinese New Year celebrations formally began on Monday, January 23. China has become 4710 years old as per its lunar calendar. This year will be known as the Year... Jagannath P. Panda | January 24, 2012 | IDSA Comments
