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
Fairy Tale of American Decline and China’s Rise Has the power and influence of the United States declined in recent years? Does the current global recession, the outcome of the US invasion of Iraq and the resilience of... Chintamani Mahapatra | July 2010 | Strategic Analysis
Name of the Game Is Interdependence Lawrence Summers, United States President Barack Obama's chief economic advisor and formerly secretary of treasury in the second term of the Clinton administration, once said that there was a ‘balance... Bharat Wariavwalla | July 2010 | Strategic Analysis
Strategy and Tactics in Countering Left Wing Extremists in India Left Wing Extremism (LWE) presents a serious internal security challenge to India that needs careful and coordinated policy response from both the security front and the development front. For the... Giridhari Nayak | July 2010 | Strategic Analysis
A Growing Technological Gap with China? The drivers for sustaining the decades-long growth of the Chinese economy are the subject of enduring conjecture, controversy and even wonder. From a US$1 trillion economy in the 1980s, China's... Smita Purushottam | July 2010 | Strategic Analysis
Putin’s Visit to India: Resetting the Indo-Russian Partnership Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's visit to India on March 11–12, 2010 signifies the beginning of a new phase in Indo-Russian friendship. In fact, this visit needs to be viewed in... Meena Singh Roy | July 2010 | Strategic Analysis
