The Delicate Balance: Israel and India’s Foreign Policy Practice India's foreign policy interactions with Israel are marked by a political discreetness which is in contrast to its prominent political engagement with the Palestinians and countries of the Arab world.... S. Samuel C. Rajiv | January 2012 | Strategic Analysis
Velayat-e-Faqih (Supreme Leader) and Iranian Foreign Policy: An Historical Analysis There has been an increasing assertion of the velayat-e-faqih in Iranian politics in recent years. This has led to tensions between them and the presidential office in Iran. Against this... M. Mahtab Alam Rizvi | January 2012 | Strategic Analysis
Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN): Cooperation Problems on Human Rights Though the original focus of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) was primarily economic cooperation, the adoption of the ASEAN charter in November 2007 officially included cooperation on human... Nehginpao Kipgen | January 2012 | Strategic Analysis
The Emerging Nuclear Security Regime: Challenges Ahead everal measures are being initiated by the international community to secure sensitive materials. Al Qaeda's open interest in acquiring nuclear weapons and the rise of terrorist activity in nuclear-armed Pakistan... Rajiv Nayan | January 2012 | Strategic Analysis
Managing India’s Land Borders: Lessons from the US Experience India has been grappling with the problem of devising an efficient border management strategy that would prevent the entry of dangerous elements while at the same time allowing the legitimate... Pushpita Das | January 2012 | Strategic Analysis
Bhutan’s Foreign Policy Determinants: An Assessment This article assesses the shifting preferences of Bhutan towards the foreign policy determinants. Three determinants (national security, political culture and economic engagement) have been studied as they play a significant... Medha Bisht | January 2012 | Strategic Analysis
Examining China’s Hydro-Behaviour: Peaceful or Assertive? China is a thirsty country desperately in need of water—a lot of it. In order to meet its water and energy requirements in the densely populated and fertile northern plains,... Uttam Kumar Sinha | January 2012 | Strategic Analysis
Climate Change and Conflict in South Asia It is now commonly accepted that small island countries are facing an existential threat because of global warming and the consequent rise in the level of the oceans. P. K. Gautam | January 2012 | Strategic Analysis
Comment on ‘The Global Nuclear Non-Proliferation Paradigm and India’ Rajiv Nayan's article is both important and interesting. It is important because nuclear weapons pose a threat to humanity and the planet that in magnitude, severity and immediacy is the... Ramesh Thakur | January 2012 | Strategic Analysis
‘Social Capital’ and its Significance in Reimagining Chindia Writings on India–China relations in recent years are increasingly seen to be imputing Machiavellian realism to the political and, increasingly, economic sphere of interaction. Joe Thomas Karackattu | January 2012 | Strategic Analysis
