The July 2008 Terrorist Attacks in Bengaluru and Ahmedabad Two co-ordinated strikes on July 25 and 26, 2008 in Bengaluru and Ahmedabad killed 54 people and injured nearly 200. In the next few days, 28 bombs including two car... T. Khurshchev Singh | August 12, 2008 | IDSA Comments
Russia’s New Rules for Global Competition Russia’s new President Dmitry Medvedev has put forward a fresh foreign policy blueprint and set forth a brand new idea of a Pan-European Security structure, which envisages a role for... P. Stobdan | August 07, 2008 | IDSA Comments
Can SAARC hold the Regional Dream? SAARC has in recent years attracted wide international attention and generated much interest among countries that now hold Observer status. The 15th Summit held in Colombo on August 2 –... Smruti S. Pattanaik | August 07, 2008 | IDSA Comments
Will CCTV Technology Deter Terrorists? The low-intensity bombs that blew up in Ahmedabad and Bangalore have thrown light on the challenges before India’s intelligence agencies. Not only are the agencies unsure of who is behind... Prakarsh Singh | August 07, 2008 | IDSA Comments
Pakistan’s New Trade Policy: A Step in the Right Direction? At a time when Pakistan’s phenomenal economic growth of the past few years under the Musharraf regime has hit a severe road block, the country’s Trade Minister Ahmed Mukhtar, who... Alok Bansal | August 05, 2008 | IDSA Comments
Bangladesh Remains Sensitive on the Issue of Connectivity Though the recent Indo-Bangladesh Foreign Secretary level talks held in New Delhi made significant progress on several issues, there was no forward movement on the issue of connectivity. Bangladesh remains... Anand Kumar | August 04, 2008 | IDSA Comments
Games parties play: Nash equilibrium of the Nuclear Agreement Game theory is the analysis of strategic interaction among agents. These agents may be two or more people, firms or countries, with both taking into account how the other agent... Prakarsh Singh | July 31, 2008 | IDSA Comments
Surging Energy and Food Prices will Accelerate Economic Downtrend in Bangladesh Rising food and oil prices worldwide have increased the misery of people in Bangladesh who have already been suffering the effects of near double digit inflation. The military backed caretaker... Anand Kumar | July 30, 2008 | IDSA Comments
The threat of Bio-terrorism On the August 18, 2008, a meeting of experts on bio-weapons was held in Geneva. The meeting considered (i) national regional and international measures to improve bio-safety and bio-security, including…... Arundhati Ghose | July-September 2008 | CBW Magazine
The Unending Iranian Nuclear Crisis If anybody thought that a change of talk in the Bush administration’s Iran policy would be enough to induce the “isolated” Tehran to give up its intransigence and toe the... Stanly Johny | July 25, 2008 | IDSA Comments