Why Coal Matters in India? Issues pertaining to coal mafias, coal unions and its politics ought to be addressed if any meaningful reforms or cuts in coal consumption are to be made. Prashant Hosur | June 01, 2010 | IDSA Comments
India’s Future Aircraft Carrier Force and the Need for Strategic Flexibility India has long striven for a three carrier fleet comprised of one carrier battle group stationed on each seaboard, and a third carrier held in reserve. Iskander Rehman | June 01, 2010 | IDSA Comments
India’s Cold Start Doctrine and Strategic Stability Cold Start is a good doctrine from India’s point of view, but one that could adversely impact strategic stability given since Pakistan’s nuclear strategy is premised on countering Indian conventional... Gurmeet Kanwal | June 01, 2010 | IDSA Comments
Taiwan’s Unending Dialogue over ECFA The fundamental ideological difference between the KMT and DPP supporters makes the debate on ECFA more complicated than it needs to be actually, with a peculiar intermix of politics and... Jagannath P. Panda | June 01, 2010 | IDSA Comments
Learning from Times Square: Socialising the Counterterrorism Approach Since safeguarding the public space such as mass transportation networks, financial and industrial hubs from sporadic acts of terror is increasingly becoming difficult, socialising citizenry in democratic societies to the... Harinder Singh | May 31, 2010 | IDSA Comments
Israel’s Nuclear Opacity and New Challenges Given the rapidly evolving situation in West Asia, and the growing danger of new threats like nuclear terrorism, it would seem that the time has come for Israel to come... S. Samuel C. Rajiv | May 28, 2010 | IDSA Comments
‘Terrorism Abandonment’ [DDR] as a Key to Counter-Terrorism Strategy in Future Unlike ‘hard’ measures, ‘soft’ ones can succeed in softening the hearts and minds of even hard-core terrorists, especially when they are disillusioned, longing for a normal life, and want to... Bilveer Singh | May 28, 2010 | IDSA Comments
Peacekeeping Partnerships: Cooperation or Conflict This paper seeks to understand the nature of cooperation between the UN and other IGOs in ongoing conflicts. It will examine the security framework in which these multilateral arrangements were... Mayank Bubna | May 24, 2010 | Issue Brief
The ascendancy of Political Islam in Malaysia While the notion of Malaysia as an Islamic state appears almost unthinkable, this is exactly what has transpired since the early 1980s, posing serious challenges for the country’s internal and... Bilveer Singh | May 24, 2010 | IDSA Comments
Ideology sans Jargon? Contextualising Xi Jinping’s Politics of Simplification Xi Jinping's attempt to dejargonise political language is timely. however, how it impacts the ideology is going to be important. Avinash Godbole | May 24, 2010 | IDSA Comments
