A Critique of MoD’s Joint Venture Guidelines The intention of the JV guidelines notwithstanding, the policy document suffers from certain weaknesses which may impact its objective of enhancing national defence industrial capability. Laxman Kumar Behera | March 05, 2012 | IDSA Comments
A Critique of MoD’s Joint Venture Guidelines The intention of the JV guidelines notwithstanding, the policy document suffers from certain weaknesses which may impact its objective of enhancing national defence industrial capability. Laxman Kumar Behera | March 05, 2012 | IDSA Comments
Vice-President Xi Jinping’s visit to the United States Xi Jinping tried his best to lower the temperature by suggesting that the vast Pacific Ocean has ‘ample space’ for both China and the United States. R. S. Kalha | March 01, 2012 | IDSA Comments
Iran’s Influence: A Religious-Political State and Society in Its Region by Elaheh Rostami-Povey Elaheh Rostami-Povey focuses on the Iranian Revolution of 1979 and the speedy consolidation of the Islamic Republic. She argues that the Islamic Revolution did not dismantle history and progress within... M. Mahtab Alam Rizvi | March 2012 | Strategic Analysis
US Foreign Policy Today: American Renewal? by Steven W. Hook and James M. Scott President Barack Obama entered office in January 2009 with a plateful of domestic and international challenges. The worst economic recession in decades, a financial system teetering on the brink of... Saroj Bishoyi | March 2012 | Strategic Analysis
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
