Defence White Paper 2009: New Contours of Australia’s Strategic Thinking The rapid speed of globalization and increasing economic interdependence has had a direct impact on defence policies and countries are constantly seen fine-tuning their priorities. Walden Bello argues in his... Pankaj K Jha | November 2009 | Strategic Analysis
Japan’s Nuclear Future In the aftermath of North Korea's second nuclear test and the launch of three short-range missiles on May 25, 2009, followed by the launch of seven ballistic missiles into the... Reshmi Kazi | November 2009 | Strategic Analysis
Islamization versus Talibanization: Is Pakistan Drifting Towards ‘Lebanonization’? The February 2009 Swat deal between the Taliban and the Pakistan Government, the current Pakistani Army offensive against Taliban strongholds in various areas of Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) and... P. K. Upadhyay | November 2009 | Strategic Analysis
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
