Copenhagen Accord has initiated a drift in climate change negotiations The Copenhagen Accord is weak and a step back from the Bali Action Plan which talked about four pillars of negotiations – mitigation, adaptation, financial support and technology transfer. Arvind Gupta | January 04, 2010 | IDSA Comments
US Interests in Iran: Myths and Realities The recent events in Iran have raised a number of questions: one interesting question concerns the real character of the US interests in that country. There are obvious strategic US interests like monitoring and early warning stations, oil interests, military interests, including sales of huge quantities of modern weaponry, and so on. T. Sreedhara Rao , John Cavanagh | January 2010 | Strategic Analysis
A Contrarian Perspective! Challenge and Strategy: Rethinking India’s Foreign Policy by Rajiv Sikri Ashok K. Behuria | January 2010 | Strategic Analysis
Caretaking Democracy: Political Process in Bangladesh, 2006–2008 by Sreeradha Datta Shantanu Chakrabarti | January 2010 | Strategic Analysis
A New Perspective in Iranian Politics The New Iranian Leadership: Ahmadinejad, Terrorism, Nuclear Ambition, and the Middle East by Yonah Alexander and Milton Hoenig M. Mahtab Alam Rizvi | January 2010 | Strategic Analysis
India’s Strategic Interests in Southeast Asia and Singapore by See Chak Mun Sandeep Anand | January 2010 | Strategic Analysis
The US Approach to the Islamic World in the Post 9/11 Era by Chintamani Mahapatra Archana Mishra | January 2010 | Strategic Analysis
Is Pakistan Collapsing? Assumptions, Assertions, and Precautions Medha Bisht | January 2010 | Strategic Analysis
Geopolitical Stipulation of Central Asian Integration The overall post-Soviet and post-Cold War transformation of the five Central Asian countries is multifaceted and complicated. New geopolitics has penetrated into almost all critically important spheres of post-Soviet transformation. Geopolitics even influences spheres such as national self-identification, which is traditionally regarded as having nothing to do with geopolitics. That is why one can assume that geopolitics stipulates regional integration as well. Farkhod Tolipov | January 2010 | Strategic Analysis