Engaging Iran in the New Strategic Environment: Opportunities and Challenges for India In recent years, Iran has come to acquire a significant place in the West Asian region with the ability to influence regional politics. For India, relations with Iran are vital.... Ajey Lele , Meena Singh Roy | January 2011 | Strategic Analysis
India’s Neighbourhood Policy: Perceptions from Bangladesh Security has been a major driving force of India's neighbourhood policy. India's sympathies with democratic forces and its aversion to extra-regional presence are all geared to optimise its security interest,... Smruti S. Pattanaik | January 2011 | Strategic Analysis
Thinking about an Indian Grand Strategy This article is primarily a conceptual overview on the theme of a grand strategy for a rising power such as India. The objective is to promote a systematic and structural... Zorawar Daulet Singh | January 2011 | Strategic Analysis
India and the Fissile Material Cut-Off Treaty: Policy Options The international community inside and outside the Conference of Disarmament is underscoring the need for concluding a fissile material cut-off treaty (FMCT). The Indian government, for a long period, has... Rajiv Nayan | January 2011 | Strategic Analysis
The US Space Priorities under the Obama Administration The 21st century may not hold the same strategic logic of the 1960s and 1970s towards discovering outer space. Over a period of time, particularly after the end of the... Ajey Lele | January 2011 | Strategic Analysis
Turkey–Brazil Involvement in Iranian Nuclear Issue: What Is the Big Deal? The Iranian nuclear stand-off is still a major issue in global politics. From international players like the European Union, the United States and the United Nations, to individual states, almost... Mehmet Ozkan | January 2011 | Strategic Analysis
Changing Face of Turkey Turkey is blessed with a favourable geography. It straddles Asia and Europe, is surrounded by sea on three sides, controls the only link to the Black Sea, and has moderate... Rumel Dahiya | January 2011 | Strategic Analysis
The Islamist Impulse Haunting Pakistan It is a truism to say that the elite in Pakistan has used Islam to perpetuate its hold on power ever since the state came into being in 1947. The... Ashok K. Behuria | January 2011 | Strategic Analysis
Socio-Economic Underpinning of Jihadism in Pakistan The rise of the jihadist movement in Pakistan is driven primarily by ideological and religious factors. Decades of indoctrination of a virulent version of radical political Islam has motivated thousands... Sushant Sareen | January 2011 | Strategic Analysis
Tasks before Indian Foreign Policy India is contesting elections for the non-permanent membership of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) for a two-year term, 2011–12. If elected, it will return to the Security Council after... Arvind Gupta | January 2011 | Strategic Analysis
