India’s PKOs: A Historic Perspective and the Way Forward As a founding member, India has been a firm supporter of the principles and purposes of the United Nations. Enshrined as its central aim, the UN Charter states that the... Vinay Bhatnagar | November 2011 | Strategic Analysis
The Protection of Civilians and the United Nations The world has changed significantly since the founding of the United Nations and so have its conflicts. During the mid-twentieth century, the pre-eminent challenge for multilateral cooperation was the awesome... Vijay Nambiar | November 2011 | Strategic Analysis
Universality, Multilateralism and Many-Lateralism Does the changing nature of the international order in the 21st century influence the nature and forms of multilateralism? And if yes, how does it impact the United Nations, an... B.S. Prakash | November 2011 | Strategic Analysis
Reforming the United Nations Any organisation established in the aftermath of the Second World War obviously cannot fulfil its functions, in a world that has changed so dramatically, without adapting itself to the contemporary... Prakash Shah | November 2011 | Strategic Analysis
Towards a World Community: Thoughts on India and the Idea of United Nations Reform The title of this article is derived from a famous speech made by Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first prime minister, at the United Nations in December 1956. Over the previous decade,... Manu Bhagavan | November 2011 | Strategic Analysis
India and the United Nations To paraphrase the mantra of realism—international politics, like all politics, is a struggle for normative ascendancy: the establishment and maintenance of the dominant normative architecture of international order created and... Ramesh Thakur | November 2011 | Strategic Analysis
Political Cost of PM Bhattarai’s India Visit The visit gave an opportunity to both India and the Maoists to settle some of their misunderstandings. However, it could be a huge risk for India to engage him more... Nihar R. Nayak | October 31, 2011 | IDSA Comments
Gaddafi’s Death: Mission Accomplished! One monarch less is good, the mission has been accomplished and whatever else is happening in Libya is just mundane. Preeti Nalwa | October 29, 2011 | IDSA Comments
The Manipur Blockade: Symptom of a Crisis in Desperate Need of Resolution Barely a year after suffering two months of road blockade by Naga groups, Manipur is in the throes of a similar crisis again. What Manipur is in desperate need of... Namrata Goswami | October 28, 2011 | IDSA Comments
Ravi Kalia, ed., Pakistan: From the Rhetoric of Democracy to the Rise of Militancy Abraham Lincoln, defined democracy as: “Government of the people, by the people and for the people”. Democracy is a form of government in which the authority of government is based... Saroj Bishoyi | October 2011 | Journal of Defence Studies
