Indo-Bangladesh Relations: An Enduring Partnership? Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is visiting India on January 10, 2009. Both India and Bangladesh are looking foward to resolving some of the key bilateral issues. In the light... Sreeradha Datta | January 06, 2010 | Issue Brief
Dynamics of Indo-Myanmar Economic Ties Clearly, there is immense scope for cooperation between India and Myanmar to deal in agro-based products, floriculture, engineering, timber and tobacco and expand business cooperation. Although there has been a... Saurabh | January 06, 2010 | IDSA Comments
The PLA on Diplomatic Front in 2009 The participation of the PLA Navy in escort missions in foreign waters is a radical departure from the historical point of view because this is the first time that the... Prashant Kumar Singh | January 06, 2010 | IDSA Comments
Ongoing Revision of Indian Army Doctrine The point of significance is that even as the Army prepares for the worst case, it would be a political-diplomatic-strategic exercise to ensure that such a scenario does not arise. Ali Ahmed | January 06, 2010 | IDSA Comments
Japan Beefs up its Naval Capability To assuage fears, Japan might see merit to take India on board in the form of a naval cooperation framework to secure peace at sea. Developments in the past 4-5... Rajaram Panda | January 05, 2010 | Issue Brief
Rising China at Copenhagen Given the divergence of views in the industrialized and industrializing countries as was demonstrated at Copenhagen, it is too early to expect any comprehensive result from the Copenhagen Accord. One... Simi Thambi | January 05, 2010 | IDSA Comments
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... 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