The July 7 Attack in Kabul and India’s Search for a Response The July 7 attack on the Indian Embassy in Kabul which left 58 people dead including four Indians and more than 140 wounded was a highly provocative act. Those responsible... Vishal Chandra | July 18, 2008 | IDSA Comments
Causes and consequences of Terrorism in Punjab: A Rationalist Perspective In many ways the story of Punjab is anomalous to the stylized facts of civil war literature. Empirical literature on civil wars points to a negative correlation between income and... Prakarsh Singh | July 18, 2008 | IDSA Comments
Private Sector Challenge to Ordnance Factories Ordnance Factories constitute a major segment of India’s defence industrial set- up, whose other constituents are the Defence Public Sector Undertakings (DPSUs), the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and... N. Neihsial | July 17, 2008 | IDSA Comments
Nuclear Deal and the Future of Indo-US Ties Now that the IAEA Draft Agreement is on the World Wide Web and the Communists have withdrawn their support to the UPA, it is reasonable to assume that the next... Ramesh Phadke | July 17, 2008 | IDSA Comments
The Growing Threat of WMD Terrorism Terrorism is both a subjective and a pejorative term. This being so, difficulties emerge in attempting to find a definition of terrorism that can be classified as universal. The key…... Harsh V. Pant | July-September 2008 | CBW Magazine
Should India Continue Its Present Course in Afghanistan? The July 7 gruesome attack on the Indian Embassy in Kabul, which resulted in the loss of over 40 lives including those of two senior diplomats, is clearly a high... Shanthie Mariet D'Souza | July 09, 2008 | IDSA Comments
Should India Engage with NATO? On the face of it, India and NATO are poles apart. NATO is a military alliance. India is a non-aligned country with an independent foreign policy. Any engagement between India... Arvind Gupta | July 08, 2008 | IDSA Comments
The French Quest for NATO France has taken over the half-yearly presidency of the European Union (EU) Council from Slovenia on July 1. The change of guard at the helm of the EU is a... Alok Rashmi Mukhopadhyay | July 07, 2008 | IDSA Comments
The Proliferation Security Initiative: Five years later, losing its sheen? On May 27, 2008, participants from 91 countries assembled in Washington to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) – a controversial counterproliferation initiative launched by President... A. Vinod Kumar | July 07, 2008 | IDSA Comments
Changing US Perspective on Terrorism Every year the United States releases a report on global terrorist activities as required by its domestic law. The latest report is titled Country Reports on Terrorism and includes developments... Satinder K. Saini | July 02, 2008 | IDSA Comments
