LTTE Air Strike Redefines Conflict The LTTE's air attack on the Sri Lankan Air Force base at Katunayake, adjoining the Katunayake International Airport (KIA), marks a new dimension in the three-decade-old conflict. The bombing raid... M. Mayilvaganan | March 30, 2007 | IDSA Comments
The Indian Defence Budget 2007-08 On February 28, 2007, Finance Minister P. Chidambaram presented the Union Budget for the fiscal Year 2007-08 (April 1, 2007 - March 31, 2008). Out of a total budgeted expenditure... Laxman Kumar Behera | March 09, 2007 | IDSA Comments
Indo-US Business Relations: Setting new records With the passage of a year since the visit of President George W. Bush to India, it is the business communities of the two countries that have benefited the most... Cherian Samuel | March 08, 2007 | IDSA Comments
India and Russia Need to Deepen Economic Relations The recent meeting of the Indo-Russian Business Co-operation Council and the Trade and Investment Forum in New Delhi was significant, in that it took place after the recent summit-level talks... Nivedita Das Kundu | March 07, 2007 | IDSA Comments
Naxalites resolve to focus on urban areas In response to the government-organised National Naxalite Co-ordination Committee meeting held in December 2006 at Bhubaneswar, Naxalites have enunciated their counter-strategy. The Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist), which accounts for... Nihar R. Nayak | March 06, 2007 | IDSA Comments
Indo-US Defence Cooperation and the Emerging Strategic Relationship The most visible manifestation of a strategic relationship between two countries is cooperation in the defence sphere. When the Defence Framework Agreement was signed in June 2005, it was widely... Cherian Samuel | March 2007 | Strategic Analysis
India and the Proliferation Security Initiative: A US Perspective The article considers why New Delhi has shied away from full participation in the US-led Proliferation Security Initiative despite compelling national interests in improving Indian maritime forces and cooperating with... James R. Holmes | March 2007 | Strategic Analysis
Navigational Freedoms in a Time of Insecurity Navigational freedoms have increasingly come under restrictions because of ecological, economic and security concerns of coastal states. Fishing vessels, oil tankers, ships carrying ultra-hazardous nuclear cargoes and even military vessels... Jon M. Van Dyke | March 2007 | Strategic Analysis
Geopolitics of Power Trading in South Asia: Opportunities and Challenges It is now generally accepted that energy security could be significantly enhanced through sustained cross-border exchanges in many regions. In South Asia, however, regional energy security cooperation has seriously remained... Mahendra P. Lama | March 2007 | Strategic Analysis
Chinese Nationalism and the Fate of Tibet: Implications for India and Future Scenarios Chinese nationalism primarily represents Han nationalism and ignores ethnic minority sub-nationalisms and identities in the larger cause of the state's unity and integrity. The Chinese state calls for submerging of... Abanti Bhattacharya | March 2007 | Strategic Analysis
