Exit from Afghanistan: Playing the Game and not learning the lessons US calculation in backing Pakistani designs for controlling Afghanistan will bring even greater dangers to its own doorsteps. D. Padma Kumar Pillay | March 03, 2010 | IDSA Comments
India’s Defence Budget (2010-2011): Wake up call for Defence Managers Given that allocations for revenue expenditure are likely to become lesser in coming years, defence managers need to initiate immediate measures to control the rising revenue expenditure. Arvind Kadyan | March 03, 2010 | IDSA Comments
Budgeting for India’s Defence: An Analysis of Defence Budget 2010-11 and the Likely Impact of the 13th Finance Commission on Future Defence Spending If the Finance Ministry’s emphasis on fiscal prudence and inclusive growth has resulted in a smaller increase in the latest defence budget, the Report of the Thirteenth Finance Commission does not paint a very optimistic scenario for India’s future defence spending. Laxman Kumar Behera | March 03, 2010 | IDSA Comments
Hatoyama Battles to Wrest Control Power from the Bureaucrats With Hatoyama’s determination to wrest policymaking power from bureaucrats in full swing, Japan is likely to witness an intense battle between the political masters and the powerful bureaucrats for supremacy. Rajaram Panda | March 02, 2010 | IDSA Comments
India and the NPT India's nuclear development has been accompanied by a dual track strategy of developing and building weapons while criticising the non-proliferation regime as discriminatory and simultaneously making public statements and proposals in favour of nuclear disarmament. But with international progress likely on aspects of nuclear disarmament over the next few months, India will be in the spotlight at the forthcoming 2010 Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference to help move the disarmament and non-proliferation agenda forward. Leonard Weiss | March 2010 | Strategic Analysis
The Role of Nuclear Weapons in International Relations K. Subrahmanyam | March 2010 | Strategic Analysis
The NPT and India: Accommodating the Exception In different international bodies and in statements by various world leaders, universalisation and a possible revision of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) are figuring quite frequently. Certainly, in the emerging context for universalisation, the relationship between India and the NPT may be reviewed. Several relevant options are emerging to define the relationship between India and the NPT. This has put the relationship between India and the NPT in the international limelight. Rajiv Nayan | March 2010 | Strategic Analysis
Reforms in the NPT and Prospects for India’s Accession: A Situational Analysis Since its indefinite extension in 1995, the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) has been on the sidelines, with its utility eroding in the post-Cold War security environment, as new instruments took over the anti-proliferation mantle. Being the cornerstone of the regime and near-universal in character, the NPT has nonetheless survived despite a host of challenges threatening its existence. Its future, however, is imperilled unless the member states take remedial actions, including a restructuring of the treaty to suit 21st century requirements. A. Vinod Kumar | March 2010 | Strategic Analysis
