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... 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... 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... 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... A. Vinod Kumar | March 2010 | Strategic Analysis
India and the NPT: Separating Substantive Facts from Normative Fiction This article examines the feasibility and advisability of India joining the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). Anupam Srivastava , Seema Gahlaut | March 2010 | Strategic Analysis
NPT RevCon 2010: An Opportunity to Refocus Priorities Amongst the challenges that bedevil the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) today, the NPT Review Conference (RevCon) 2010 will have to particularly handle two issues: one, right of non-nuclear weapon states (NNWS)... Manpreet Sethi | March 2010 | Strategic Analysis
