Impending Crisis in Nepal With Prachanda’s announcement that the Maoists intend to launch an indefinite nationwide general strike, a major crisis seems to be brewing in Nepal. Nihar R. Nayak | April 29, 2010 | IDSA Comments
The ICC’s Role in Sudan: Peace versus Justice In order for ICC jurisdiction to truly have a sway it needs to be credible as a deterrence mechanism, and it should keep track of the political strategies used by... Mayank Bubna | April 28, 2010 | Issue Brief
Hughes, Christopher W., Japan’s Remilitarization Crippled by US drafted pacifist Constitution and growing pressure from the pacifist lobby within the country, Japan adopted a pacifist security policy during the Cold War period and various governments... Shamshad A. Khan | April 2010 | Journal of Defence Studies
Integrated Network Electronic Warfare: China’s New Concept of Information Warfare The People's Liberation Army (PLA) considers active offence to be the most important requirement for information warfare to destroy or disrupt an adversary's capability to receive and process data. Launched... Deepak Sharma | April 2010 | Journal of Defence Studies
Left-Wing Extremism (LWE) in India It has become almost a cliché to say that the LWE situation is the most serious internal threat facing the country. Naxalism has been operating in several parts of the... G.K. Pillai | April 2010 | Journal of Defence Studies
Management of Medical Stores in Indian Armed Forces Due to the large base and geographical spread of users, AFMSDs face difficulties in supplying the required stores to indenters. As a result, clientele satisfaction is affected. The pharmaceutical industry... Arvind Kadyan | April 2010 | Journal of Defence Studies
India, China and the United States: The Triangle That Isn’t At the outset, I should like to clarify that I am not going to theorize or build models on global or regional international relations. I am also not going to... V. P. Dutta | April 2010 | Journal of Defence Studies
Hans Blix, Why Nuclear Disarmament Matters The end of the World War II brought new hopes of creating a better and more peaceful world. However, the beginning of the Cold War and the fierce arms race... Pranamita Baruah | April 2010 | Journal of Defence Studies
The April Election and Prospects for Sustainable Peace in Sri Lanka The outcome of the April general election makes clear that Sri Lanka would be evolving its own model of post-conflict reconstruction and reconciliation to address the causes of conflict. Darini Rajasingham Senanayake | April 22, 2010 | IDSA Comments
Francis Fukuyama (ed.), Blindside: How to Anticipate Forcing Events and Wild Cards in Global Politics (Washington D.C.: Brookings, 2007) The book seeks to illuminate policy choices available to American policy makers to deal with ‘low probability and high impact’ events like the September 11, 2001 attacks or the destruction…... S. Samuel C. Rajiv | April-June 2010 | CBW Magazine