Beyond the Arab-Iranian Divide in the Gulf In an interesting development, the Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC) invited Iran for the first time last month to attend its summit meeting held in Doha. The GCC was established in... M. Mahtab Alam Rizvi | January 23, 2008 | IDSA Comments
South Korea under Lee Myung-bak The 17th South Korean Presidential elections were concluded on December 19, 2007. The last serving President Roh Moo-hyun could not contest these elections as he had completed two terms in... Gunjan Singh | January 22, 2008 | IDSA Comments
Chinese Cyber War In 2007 Chinese hackers gained notoriety in the US after a series of cyber intrusions, including one involving Pentagon systems. Though China denies involvement and the US is reluctant to... Hayoun Ryou | January 22, 2008 | IDSA Comments
Disaster Management: The WMD Dimension Some Preliminary Observations Armed forces across the world are closely involved in handling natural calamities, which is accepted as part of their non-military duties, and are no less important for…... P. R. Chari | January-March 2008 | CBW Magazine
Looking Beyond Nuclear Weapons The year 2008 started with oil prices touching a historic high of US $100 a barrel. This is partly a reflection of the high demand for energy. Today, many countries... Ajey Lele | January 15, 2008 | IDSA Comments
India’s Border in the Northeast: From Buffer to Bridge There has been a qualitative shift in recent years in the way policy makers perceive borders and border areas. Borders are increasingly being seen as facilitators of easy circulation of... Pushpita Das | January 14, 2008 | IDSA Comments
Awareness and Preparedness is the Key to Survival Modern man is living in a violent world and under an undeniable threshold of rising societal violence. As a result, people are already preparing against various forms of violence. On…... Ram V Athavale | January-March 2008 | CBW Magazine
Building a BTWC Education Module for Life Scientists In December 2006 the States Parties to the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC), in the Final Document of their Sixth Five-Year Review Conference, agreed, in regard to Article IV…... Malcolm Dando | January-March 2008 | CBW Magazine
Armed Forces: A Career Choice? The youth of today are a well-informed gentry. Mentally mobile, analytically aware, surgically sharp and clinically precise - the Indian teenager is rarely ingenuous or naive. He is inquisitively thorough,... H. Dharmarajan | Winter 2008 | Journal of Defence Studies
Emerging Infectious Diseases: A Security Concern for India The process of globalisation has been understood as “time-space” compression1. Structurally, the boundaries that separate human conditions are now diminishing, enabled by rapid interaction. Philosophically, globalisation has led to the…... Monalisa Joshi | January-March 2008 | CBW Magazine
