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.... 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... 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... 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... M. Amarjeet Singh | October 20, 2008 | IDSA Comments
HUJI as a Political Party: Where is Political Reform in Bangladesh Headed? The caretaker government in Bangladesh had assumed power with the objective of bringing about a new political culture in the country. This aim had made them decide upon a crackdown... Anand Kumar | October 20, 2008 | IDSA Comments
The Significance of Shenzhou-VII On October 7, 2008, the PLA Daily reported that the Central Military Commission (CMC) and the four general departments of the Chinese military celebrated in great style the success of... Jagannath P. Panda | October 16, 2008 | IDSA Comments
India’s Response to CBW attack Acardinal principle of India’s nuclear doctrine is No First Use (NFU). It is articulated in a press release of January 4, 2003 on the review of operationalisation of India’s nuclear…... Ali Ahmed | October-December 2008 | CBW Magazine
Is India on the Path to Vibrant Defence Industry? What does it take to be ‘a vibrant industry’ or more specifically ‘vibrant defence industry’? Broadly, it would demand that the industry should be innovative in terms of processes and... N. Neihsial | October 08, 2008 | IDSA Comments
Prachanda’s Visit to India: Beginning of a New Dawn No other recent visit to India has been so eagerly awaited as that of Pushpa Kumar Dahal, alias Prachanda, the Maoist revolutionary turned democrat and Prime Minister of ‘New Nepal’.... Alok Bansal | October 08, 2008 | IDSA Comments
Update on the Meeting of Experts for BWTC (18-22 August 2008) The Meeting of Experts for the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC/BWC) was held from August 18 to 22, 2008 in Geneva. As a part of the intersessional process for…... Monalisa Joshi | October-December 2008 | CBW Magazine
