A Year after 26/11: Soft Responses of a Reluctant State Why are the two largest democracies – India and the United States – starkly different when it comes to tackling terrorism? The answer to this perplexing question could lie in... A. Vinod Kumar | November 2009 | Strategic Analysis
Climate Summit at Copenhagen: Negotiating the Intractable Climate change is hugely challenging. But there is an unmistakable straightforwardness to it – reduce emissions to reduce global warming. In many ways, this reflects the sum total of the... Uttam Kumar Sinha | November 2009 | Strategic Analysis
East Asian Regionalism Vs Asian Regionalism The appropriate option for the Hatoyama government would be to take incremental steps aimed at building greater confidence and trust amongst Asian nations across a number of policy fronts rather... Rajaram Panda | October 31, 2009 | IDSA Comments
The new government in Berlin On the eve of the formation of the new government it is expected that Germany would mainly devote its energy at home as the mandate is for continuity in the... Alok Rashmi Mukhopadhyay | October 31, 2009 | IDSA Comments
Controversy over Relocating Futenma base The Futenma issue is therefore unlikely to be allowed to derail the decades-old alliance relationship, irrespective of the fact that there is now a government in Japan headed by the... Rajaram Panda | October 31, 2009 | IDSA Comments
Leading the way – Exercise Yudh Abhyas India's relationship with the United States has been a subject of debate and discussion. Both nations despite being large and stable democracies have had a contentious relationship demonstrating that shared... Arvind Dutta | October 29, 2009 | IDSA Comments
Japan’s quest for East Asian Community Japan is seeking to forge an East Asian Community inline with the European Union. But the optimism that East Asia will realize the goal of European Union (EU) type integration... Shamshad A. Khan | October 28, 2009 | IDSA Comments
India-Pakistan Conflict Outcome Probability The Prime Minister in his address to the Combined Commanders conference of the armed forces exhorted the Services to remain alert, due to the unfolding situation in Pakistan. The armed... Ali Ahmed | October 27, 2009 | IDSA Comments
Severing the Hawala Trail to and from India Terror groups need money for procuring weapons, ammunitions, material, communication equipment, recruiting, conducting information operations, housing, and paying compensation to active members and their dependents. Terror organizations utilize a number... Dushyant Singh | October 2009 | Journal of Defence Studies
Taking Strength from the Past in Securing India’s Future To promote the establishment and maintenance of international peace and security with the least diversion for armaments of the world’s human and economic resources -Article 26 of the UN Charter…... Binalakshmi Nepram | October-December 2009 | CBW Magazine
