Delhi Terror Attacks: Need for some Soul Searching The need of the hour is to devise a counter-terrorism strategy which is well-coordinated and led by specialized units with superior intelligence-gathering and assessment skills. Namrata Goswami | September 08, 2011 | IDSA Comments
Challenges Before Noda Yoshihiko If Noda falters, Japan’s importance in the global community would be considerably diminished and it will be left with the role of a marginal power Rajaram Panda | September 06, 2011 | Issue Brief
The Continuing ‘State of Emergency’ in Sri Lanka Removing emergency regulations while continuing with militarisation and a massive project of policing in socio-cultural arenas do not indicate a journey towards normalcy. Amali Wedagedara | September 05, 2011 | IDSA Comments
Diana: A Human Face to Expatriates Until I met Diana, the South Asian Diaspora in the Middle East meant six million Indians, $50 billion in annual remittances and the problems of evacuation during crises. Diana put... P. R. Kumaraswamy | September 05, 2011 | IDSA Comments
Public Private Partnership In Procurement Practices An efficient, transparent PPP policy dovetailed with an effective FDI framework will not only ensure that state-of-the-art defence equipment is procured but will also be instrumental in enabling transfer of... Venu Gopal | September 05, 2011 | IDSA Comments
The Arctic as a Global Common India’s ‘strategic community’ must take the lead in articulating the debating the idea of including the Arctic in the discourse on global commons. P. K. Gautam | September 02, 2011 | Issue Brief
RoK’s Jeju Island Naval Base The Jeju naval base is intended to serve two objectives: to protect the country from possible missile attacks from North Korea and to allow the United States to station Aegis... Rajaram Panda | September 01, 2011 | Issue Brief
The Party: The Secret World of China’s Communist Rulers by Richard McGregor Harper Collins, New York, 2010, pp. xvii+302, US$ 27.99, ISBN 9780061708770 Rukmani Gupta | September 2011 | Strategic Analysis
India’s International Relations: A Systems Approach The national security of India rests on two basic and mutually supporting premises. The first, of course, is the internal strength, cohesiveness, and firmness of purpose of the nation. The... K. Saigal | September 2011 | Strategic Analysis
The Asian Balance of Power in the Seventies: An Indian View There is general agreement among those concerned with international relations and strategy that for the next fifteen years Asia is more likely to be an area of tension and conflict... K. Subrahmanyam | September 2011 | Strategic Analysis
