International Relations Theories and the Contemporary World Arvind Gupta | November 2008 | Strategic Analysis
Race, Reconciliation, and Security: Managing India’s Diversities Namrata Goswami | November 2008 | Strategic Analysis
Nehru’s Concept of Indian Defence No aspect of Jawaharlal Nehru's policies and leadership came under as severe an attack as those on defence. Unfortunately till this day no scholastic appraisal of the policy he pursued in regard to national security is available and it is a great pity that the Government has not encouraged such a study. We have had a host of publications by foreigners, retired Indian Army officers, retired civil servants, journalists, academicians and politicians which are generally critical of Jawaharlal Nehru's defence policy. The bias in these works is all too obvious. Shri B.N. K. Subrahmanyam | November 2008 | Strategic Analysis
Indo-US Counter-Terrorism Cooperation: Rhetoric Versus Substance Following the 9/11 attacks on the American homeland, India and Pakistan emerged as important states in the US-led Global War on Terrorism (GWOT). The gathering momentum in the Indo-US relations during the Clinton Presidency underwent a dramatic transformation. Although increased cooperation in defence issues is understood to have 'led' the India-US relationship to its current level, it has not culminated in enhanced counter-terrorism cooperation. This perceived lack of cooperation can be located within the perceptual differences on key security issues. Shanthie Mariet D’Souza | November 2008 | Strategic Analysis
Anthrax Case: The Mystery Remains In early August 2008 most of the US newspapers were highlighting the ‘suicide’ of the marked man suspected for his involvement in the spread of anthrax through letters in 2001.… Continue reading Anthrax Case: The Mystery Remains Pankaj K Jha | October-December 2008 | CBW Magazine
Can India ever Trust China? The two recent glorious achievements - the Olympics and spacewalk mission – seem to have transcended China to a new global height with wide implications for the world’s strategic balance. From all accounts, analysts suggest that China will not only survive but has also gained from the recent global financial meltdown. P. Stobdan | October 27, 2008 | IDSA Comments
The oil price Conundrum As the saying goes, everything that goes up had to come down. The same holds true for the price of oil, which has seen a slide of around 55% in just three months. At one point of time there were even predictions that prices would reach $200 a barrel. However, currently, the price of oil has dropped to $68 a barrel, from a high of over $147 in July this year. But the question is how and more importantly, why did this happen, and in such a short time. Shebonti Ray Dadwal | October 24, 2008 | IDSA Comments
Piracy off Somalia: Can Naval Patrolling be the ‘Antidote’? Since 2005, the ‘centre of gravity’ of Asian piracy has clearly shifted westwards from Southeast Asia to the western Indian Ocean. The Somalia-based pirates are on the rampage, capturing vessels of all sizes ranging from yachts to super-tankers and their crew for ransom. This is hardly surprising, considering that the writ of Somalia’s Transitional Government (TFG) does not even run on the entire Somali land territory, and much less on its adjoining seas. Gurpreet S Khurana | October 22, 2008 | IDSA Comments
Resolving the Bodo Militancy Bodo militancy can be effectively resolved by accommodating the only surviving Bodo militant outfit within the existing self-governing territorial council that came into existence in 2003. In the mid-1980s, the Bodos of Assam under its influential student body, the All Bodo Students’ Union (ABSU), which began a vigorous mass movement demanding a separate Bodoland state on the North of the Brahmaputra. The movement lasted for about a decade and resulted in the establishment of a territorially defined self governing council known as Bodoland Autonomous Council (BAC) in 1993. M. Amarjeet Singh | October 20, 2008 | IDSA Comments
