The Pakistani Taliban: An existential or a passing threat ? Pakistan’s ability to press home a multidimensional campaign against the radical forces, and contain domestic instability and economic downturn, is suspect. Harinder Singh | September 23, 2009 | IDSA Comments
North Korea Admits to Uranium Enrichment Programme Indications are that the stalled six-party talks on the North Korean nuclear issue will resume in the coming months. While North Korea has let it be known that it is... Ch. Viyyanna Sastry | September 23, 2009 | IDSA Comments
Sixty Years of The People’s Republic of China Once an exporter of Chinese style Communism and isolated internationally, today’s China is the mainstay of the capitalist world exporting a large quantity of what the world imports. Avinash Godbole | September 23, 2009 | IDSA Comments
Pakistan’s latest adventure across the International Border Pakistan has yet again shown its proclivity to raise tensions with India. This time, the Pakistan Army or its proxies have fired three rockets across the International Border (IB) near... Ramesh Phadke | September 14, 2009 | IDSA Comments
New Beginning in Islamic Republic In a surprise move the Iranian parliament (Majles) approved 18 of the 21 nominees including that of a woman proposed by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as members of his cabinet. Although... M. Mahtab Alam Rizvi | September 11, 2009 | IDSA Comments
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
