Interstate Border Disputes in the Northeast At a time when the India-China border dispute is hogging the limelight and causing unease in the Indian establishment, many festering inter-state border disputes in the Northeast that are sowing... Pushpita Das | June 12, 2008 | IDSA Comments
Will Success in the East Pave the Way for Peace and Stability in Sri Lanka? Sri Lanka’s Eastern province is transitioning to a new era. First came Karuna’s exit and subsequent co-operation with the government in Colombo. This was followed by the expulsion of the... M. Mayilvaganan | June 12, 2008 | IDSA Comments
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
