Sudan Crisis: Exploring India’s Role India's interest in Sudan has grown significantly in recent years. This is reflected in India's increased trade and investments in Sudan. Two factors that have generated such interest and encouraged... Nivedita Ray | January 2007 | Strategic Analysis
Japan’s Contemporary Nationalism: Trends and Politico-Security Drivers Contemporary Japanese nationalism is the principal force behind Japan's gradual shift towards 'normal' statehood and what has been called as 'reluctant realism'. The nature and content of this nationalism is,... Arpita Mathur | January 2007 | Strategic Analysis
Security of Sea Lines: Prospects for India-Japan Cooperation Ensuring access to crude oil and natural gas forms a crucial component of India's security calculus. It also critically underlines the significance of sea transportation through which much of these... Gurpreet S Khurana | January 2007 | Strategic Analysis
Ballistic Missile Defence: Perspectives on India-Japan Cooperation Both India and Japan have evinced interest in deploying defences against ballistic missiles because of the threat they pose. Significantly, both have shifted their stance on US Ballistic Missile Defence... G.V.C. Naidu | January 2007 | Strategic Analysis
“Thousand-Ship Navy”: A Reincarnation of the Controversial P.S.I.? Among the foremost security concerns of the US after 9/11 is the use of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) by terrorists on its territory and their proliferation through inimical states.... Gurpreet S Khurana | December 28, 2006 | IDSA Comments
NATO’s Riga Summit: Big thinking but fundamental problems On November 28 and 29, NATO Heads of State and Government met in the Latvian capital for the annual summit. This was the first summit to be held in a... Prasad P. Rane | December 28, 2006 | IDSA Comments
Afghanistan: Galloping Backward That the Taliban power stands resurrected is a fact now. At the same time, the 'war on terror' is also showing signs of fatigue. It has already come to a... Vishal Chandra | December 27, 2006 | IDSA Comments
The Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change and India’s Position Sir Nicholas Stern, former chief economist of the World Bank and head of the British government's economic service, and his team submitted the report titled The Economics of Climate Change... P. K. Gautam | December 27, 2006 | IDSA Comments