BRICS: Opportunities and Challenges This Brief outlines the practical and ideational role that BRICS can play as a grouping, in reforming the global financial system and in the norm-setting processes in world politics. The... Joe Thomas Karackattu | May 03, 2011 | Issue Brief
Responsibility to Protect – The Case of Libya Along with a clear and unambiguous mandate, pre-intervention planning also demands an exit strategy which is lacking in the Libyan case. Keerthi Sampath Kumar | May 02, 2011 | IDSA Comments
TAPI – Still a Distant Dream If the TAPI pipeline does see the light of day, it will be due to US support and its larger political and strategic considerations. Shebonti Ray Dadwal | May 02, 2011 | IDSA Comments
World Politics and the Security of India This article deals with two questions: first, what is the security framework in which an Indian decision-maker must operate? Secondly, what are the specific policy restraints which affect Indian decision-making?... Ashok Kapur | May 2011 | Strategic Analysis
The Worst-Kept Secret: Israel’s Bargain with the Bomb by Avner Cohen Columbia University Press, New York, 2010, pp. 416, $35, ISBN 978-0-231-13698-3 Reshmi Kazi | May 2011 | Strategic Analysis
Punjabi Taliban by Mujahid Hussein (Urdu) Nigareshat Publishers, Lahore, 2010, pp. 272, Rs350 Shamshad A. Khan | May 2011 | Strategic Analysis
Russia and Europe: Building Bridges, Digging Trenches by K. Englebrekt and B. Nygren (eds) Routledge, New York, 2010, pp. 304-85 ISBN 13: 978-0-415-56105-1 Kalyani Unkule | May 2011 | Strategic Analysis
India-China Relations: The Border Issue and Beyond by Mohan Guruswamy and Zorawar Daulet Singh Viva Books Pvt. Ltd, New Delhi, 2009, pp. 217, Rs 795, ISBN 8130911957 Pushpita Das | May 2011 | Strategic Analysis
Human Rights and Armed Forces in Low Intensity Conflict by K.S. Sheoran Ali Ahmed | May 2011 | Strategic Analysis
‘China in SAARC? To What Effect?’: A Response to the Debate The responses to the arguments that I forwarded in my initial essay, ‘China in SAARC? To What Effect?’, have introduced interesting dimensions to this debate. While most of the respondents... Sujit Dutta | May 2011 | Strategic Analysis