Flexibility in Political Dialogue Needed to Avert Chaos in Bangladesh In the ongoing mass arrests in Bangladesh, nearly 20,000 people have been put behind bars. These arrests started on May 28, 2008 after the ban on political activity was lifted.... Anand Kumar | June 11, 2008 | IDSA Comments
Terrorist Attack on the Danish Embassy in Islamabad On June 2, terrorists exploded a car-bomb outside the Embassy of Denmark in the high-security diplomatic area of Islamabad. The explosion instantaneously killed eight people, injured more than twenty five... Alok Rashmi Mukhopadhyay | June 09, 2008 | IDSA Comments
Signs of the Emerging Third Leg: Strengthening India’s Triad Nuclear weapons are seen as the ultimate guarantors of nations’ security. During the cold war, peace between the two super powers, for instance, was tenuously guaranteed by the fear that... Thomas Mathew | Summer 2008 | Journal of Defence Studies
Growth and Implications of Private Military Corporations Security, both as a concept and a policy objective, has been undergoing steady expansion in terms of its scope and focus. The concept, on the one hand, has steadily lost... Shantanu Chakrabarti | Summer 2008 | Journal of Defence Studies
Problems with Arms Imports Recent announcements of major arms acquisition programmes by the Indian government must have given a sense of elation to the armed forces, which have been waiting for long for some... N. Neihsial | June 03, 2008 | IDSA Comments
The Chlorine Gas Leak at Jamshedpur On the afternoon of May 27, the people of Jamshedpur were caught unaware. They were exposed to a dense, pale green, pungent and poisonous gas, Chlorine. This gas had leaked... Monalisa Joshi | May 31, 2008 | IDSA Comments
Defence Budget as a Strategic Tool of National Security The practice of converting defence plans into publicly known defence budget is essentially a practice of democratic governments. One reason for public disclosure of defence spending could be that tax... N. Neihsial | May 30, 2008 | IDSA Comments
Who are the “Indian Mujahideen”? At least nine co-ordinated blasts rocked Jaipur on May 13, 2008, killing more than 70 people and injuring 200. Subsequently, a little known Islamic militant group, Indian Mujahideen (henceforth IM),... T. Khurshchev Singh | May 30, 2008 | IDSA Comments
The India-Pakistan Bonhomie Continues The review of the composite bilateral dialogue process by the Foreign Ministers of India and Pakistan on May 22 at Islamabad was significant in many ways. This was the first... Smruti S. Pattanaik | May 30, 2008 | IDSA Comments
Pakistan’s Peace Deals with Islamic militants: Lull before the Storm The new ANP-led provincial government in NWFP signed a peace deal with the Islamic militants of Tehrik-e-Nifaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi (TNSM) led by Maulana Fazlullah, on May 21, 2008. The deal is the... Alok Bansal | May 28, 2008 | IDSA Comments
