What do Chinese intrusions across the Line of Actual Control Tell India? A number of Chinese border intrusions across the Line of Actual Control have been reported in recent months. One such event near Mount Gya in the Chumar sector of Ladakh... Pushpita Das | September 10, 2009 | IDSA Comments
Re-visioning the Nuclear Command Authority In a new book Nuclear Strategy: India’s March Towards a Credible Deterrent, Dr. Manpreet Sethi has recommended a restructuring of India’s Nuclear Command Authority. Since India’s nuclear doctrine is premised... Ali Ahmed | September 09, 2009 | IDSA Comments
Warnings from Madhya Pradesh A few weeks ago Sunday Express reported that the Madhya Pradesh Hunger Index at 30.9 was worse than that of Ethiopia. Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh, its two neighbours, were only marginally... Ramesh Phadke | September 04, 2009 | IDSA Comments
Violence in Pakistan: Trend Analysis May 2009 The month of May 2009 was the most violent month in Pakistan in the last five years. As the security forces launched a concerted operation against the Taliban in Malakand... T. Khurshchev Singh , Alok Bansal | September 02, 2009 | IDSA Comments
The Nuclear Agenda of the Obama Administration After eight years of governance by a Republican Administration, the United States elected a Democrat as its president. The Democrat President, Barack Hussein Obama, assumed presidency and appointed several key... Rajiv Nayan | September 2009 | Strategic Analysis
India and Nuclear Testing In his April 5 speech in Prague, President Barack Obama made a renewed pledge to push the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) as a practical and immediate step to ‘seek... Reshmi Kazi | September 2009 | Strategic Analysis
Climate Change and the Road to Copenhagen: Twisted and Torturous The Road to Copenhagen in December 2009 has two visible signposts. One that reads, ‘The time for climate change action is now’, the other that warns, ‘The road is bumpy’.... Uttam Kumar Sinha | September 2009 | Strategic Analysis
Media and Counter-terrorism: The Indian Experience Linked to the terrorist goal of intimidation of a targeted population, there is an inherent objective to spread fear and undermine the declared values of the targeted political system by... Shanthie Mariet D’Souza | September 2009 | Strategic Analysis
Will NATO Stay On in Afghanistan? A new actor was inducted in the decades-old Afghan conflict when the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) assumed command of the UN-mandated International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in August 2003.... Vishal Chandra | September 2009 | Strategic Analysis
Positive Trends in Cross-Strait Relations Democracy came to Taiwan under the leadership of Chiang Ching-Kuo, which brought an end to almost four decades of one-party dictatorship. Chiang Kai?Shek had harboured the dream of overtaking the... Gunjan Singh | September 2009 | Strategic Analysis
