The New Great Instability: Afghanistan after the American Exit The present paper discusses about the new great instability in Afghanistan which had emerged after 2001. It builds four scenarios by looking into the impending American withdrawal from Afghanistan and... D. Suba Chandran | October 2010 | Journal of Defence Studies
Kashmir: Time to Ring the Bell It is time that the Indian government through its yet-to-be appointed interlocutors clearly laid the limits and boundaries of the autonomy debate to all the stakeholders. Harinder Singh | October 13, 2010 | IDSA Comments
Reflections on the Award of the Nobel Peace Prize to Liu Xiaobo Since this is the first time that a Han Chinese citizen has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his anti-government stand, Beijing’s nervousness is understandable. Prashant Kumar Singh | October 13, 2010 | IDSA Comments
The Dragon has landed for the American Eagle Sino-US rivalry has been simmering for the past many years, as China has replaced Russia in the American scheme of things as its most potent adversary. Rajeev Sharma | October 13, 2010 | IDSA Comments
Power Transition in North Korea creates more uncertainty for future The power transition in North Korea is bound to produce more political intrigue in the coming months, with the junior Kim concentrating more on military modernization and nuclear programme to... Rajaram Panda | October 13, 2010 | IDSA Comments
For Bangladesh Improving Domestic Situation is as important as Fighting the Taliban Bangladesh is making an important effort domestically to weaken the affiliates of al-Qaeda and Taliban ideology, which is no less important than making contributions to ISAF. Anand Kumar | October 12, 2010 | IDSA Comments
Erik Seedhouse, The New Space Race: China vs. the United States In wake of the increasing attention received by China’s space programme, it has been posited by some that a new space race, akin to the space race between the United... Rukmani Gupta | October 2010 | Journal of Defence Studies
Human Resources in Security Sector: An Integrated Model for the 21st Century The challenge of management of human resources may be the most profound in the security sector in the years ahead given transformations happening globally and enhancement of human potential and... Rahul K. Bhonsle | October 2010 | Journal of Defence Studies
An American Solution to India’s Defence Acquisition Problem? India’s increasing reliance on FMS route is indicative of its desperation to bridge the gaps in its defence preparedness and shows the weakness of the Defence Procurement Procedure. Laxman Kumar Behera | October 08, 2010 | IDSA Comments
Afghanistan: A Firewall is Better than Partition India has been fairly successful in firewalling the radical blowback emanating from Pakistan in the past and need not be overly worried about the impending US withdrawal. Harinder Singh , Sushant Sareen | October 07, 2010 | Issue Brief
