Improving Policy Responses to Piracy in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden Region: What Role for India? The participation of the Indian navy in anti-piracy operations off the Somali coast is perceived by many as a manifestation of India's apparent willingness to take on a larger role... Marie Christine Boilard | July 2010 | Strategic Analysis
India’s Strategic Autonomy and Rapprochement with the US The debate around strategic autonomy offers a conceptual framework to understand how India, as an emerging power, tries to negotiate autonomy in its security and military relationship with the United... Guillem Monsonis | July 2010 | Strategic Analysis
Signals and Orchestration: India’s Use of Compellence in the 2001–02 Crisis How effective was the Indian government in sending clear, coercive signals and orchestrating them into coherent messages during 'Operation Parakram' in 2001-02? This study finds that compellence was hampered by... Patrick C. Bratton | July 2010 | Strategic Analysis
India–Nepal Peace and Friendship Treaty (1950): Does it Require Revision? The Treaty of Peace and Friendship signed between India and Nepal in 1950 has been a subject of debate within Nepal. The issue has been regularly featured in left parties'... Nihar R. Nayak | July 2010 | Strategic Analysis
Understanding (Changing) Chinese Strategic Perceptions of India This article argues that in contradiction to the conventional wisdom that the Sino-Indian rivalry is one-sided (with only India viewing China as a rival); China has always factored India in... Manjeet S Pardesi | July 2010 | Strategic Analysis
Role of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation in Afghanistan: Scope and Limitations Today, the situation in Afghanistan is mired with the geopolitics of regional and extra-regional players. Bringing stability to the country is a major challenge for the international community. The Shanghai... Meena Singh Roy | July 2010 | Strategic Analysis
Pakistani Nuclear Use and Implications for India The robustness of India's nuclear doctrine would face a severe challenge in the case of conventional military offensives into Pakistan in a future Indo-Pak conflict. Such offensives are possible in... Ali Ahmed | July 2010 | Strategic Analysis
Name of the Game is Interdependence: A Comment Bharat Wariavwalla's ‘Name of the Game is Interdependence’ is a thoughtful and elegantly written essay that has insights for both the theoretically inclined academic as well as the policy wonk.... Amitabh Matto | July 2010 | Strategic Analysis
Maintaining Strategic Autonomy in an Interdependent World As I have understood Bharat Wariavwalla's thoughtful article, and from the current discourse on geostrategic global balance, three central issues can be raised. First, we live in an interdependent world... Rajiv Kumar | July 2010 | Strategic Analysis
Name of the Game is Interdependence: A Response According to Bharat Wariavwalla, the Manmohan Singh-led government ‘believes that the US rules supreme and that the closer we stay with it the better we serve our interests. America will... M. D. Nalapat | July 2010 | Strategic Analysis
